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South Korea Cosmetic Policy Plan in 2021

Feb 22, 2021
Lorraine Li
MFDS issued the 2021 policy plan, including the revisions of regulations on cosmetic safety control, custom cosmetic, natural and organic cosmetic, functional cosmetic inspection.

MFDS introduced the 2021 policy plan 1 for the cosmetic sector on February 18, 2021. The authority mainly indicated the supervision scheme for cosmetic safety control, custom cosmetic, natural and organic cosmetic, functional cosmetic inspection, etc.

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Contactless Cosmetic Safety Control Amid Covid-19  

  • Online education for responsible sales manager (till June 2021)

  • Online submission of the manufacture and sale certificates for the entry notice of imported products (March 2021)

  • To replace on-site inspection with temporary document inspection for the quality control

2

Custom Cosmetic Business Support

  • To permit the compounding manager to act as a responsible sales manager (March 2021)

  • To permit the concurrent post of the compounding manager in multiple shops owned by the same sales entity (March 2021)

  • To exempt redundant education for the qualified compounding manager acting as the responsible sales manager (March 2021)

  • To simplify the application procedure for conducting custom cosmetic business outside of the registered premises (October 2021)

  • To operate the job-search platform for the compounding managers (October 2021) as well as providing classes about the qualification certificates (March 2021)

3

Natural and Organic Cosmetic Business   Support

4

Functional Cosmetic Evaluation Process

  • To shorten the period to deal with the business ownership transfer within 15 days (October 2021)

  • To modify the provisions about the violation (October 2021)

  • To add the ISO test methods for assessing the sunblocks (August 2021)

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Other Provisions

  • To shorten the period to deal with the registration modification of a responsible sales manager from 15 to 10 days (March 2021)

  • To prolong the penalty payment period or accept the installment payment in the case of a natural disaster (March 2021)



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