Six New Institutes Approved for Inspection of China Cosmetic Administrative Licensing
Beijing, SFDA - Six new institutes of drug inspection at provincial level are lately approved by China State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) to undertake all the inspection items for microbiology, sanitary chemistry and toxicology under China’s Cosmetic Administrative License (CAL).
The six institutes are Zhejiang Institute for Food and Drug Control, Shandong Institute for Food and Drug Control, Fujian Provincial Institute for Drug Control, Guangzhou Institute for Drug Control, Shenzhen Institute for Drug Control, and Hubei Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Previously in February 2011, 17 institutes had been announced qualified to perform inspection of certain items under China CAL. View
Units which are qualified for the inspection items of microbiologic, sanitary chemical and toxicological tests include the Institute of Environmental Health and Related Product Safety of Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 7 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (in Beijing, Liaoning, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong and Sichuan), 3 Institutes for Drug Control (in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong).
6 hospitals were approved to perform the inspection items of human safety test and sun proof human test for the cosmetic administrative license.
All of the approved inspection institutes have a valid period of 4 years.
According to the Measures for Cosmetic Administrative Licensing Testing (2010), a complete inspection report of the license shall consist of 4 parts as the microbiology test, the test of sanitary chemistry (including pH-value determination, Resistance to UVA ability parameters and critical wavelength determination), toxicological test and human safety test.
As for the inspection item, there are human safety test and sun proof human test besides the 4 above test types . Before a human safety test inspection starts, the toxicology test must be finished and a certifying document should be provided. Samples that fail in the toxicological test inspection are forbidden to enter the inspection item of human safety.