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Unqualified Labeling Hinders the Importation of Some Cosmetic Products

Every month, General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) releases an excel concerning the unqualified imported food and cosmetics, in which information on HS Code, the product name, the place of origin, the names of the manufacturer and the importer with their registration numbers, tonnage, reasons of non-conformity, disposal measures and the importing port are indicated.

Every month, General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) releases an excel concerning the unqualified imported food and cosmetics, in which information on HS Code, the product name, the place of origin, the names of the manufacturer and the importer with their registration numbers, tonnage, reasons of non-conformity, disposal measures and the importing port are indicated.

Generally, those products will be returned or disposed because of illegal addition, over-the-limit bacterium, disagreement between products and documents for custom clearance, disqualified labels and so on.

For cosmetics, it is noticeable that a main reason for the disposal of most cosmetic products is that they bear not-up-to-standard labels, which has caused unnecessary economic loss and hinder the foreign trade.

Administrative Provisions on Cosmetics Labelling, published by AQSIQ in 2007, is promulgated to regulate the labelling of imported and exported cosmetic products. The manufacturer of imported cosmetics is required to print the product name, the actual manufacturing site, the name and address of the producer, the production date/shelf life, net content as well as all ingredients. In addition, contents that exaggerate functions, advertises false efficacy or depreciate other products of the same category are forbidden on labels. It is also not allowed to indicate the medical effects expressively or implicitly on labels.

Besides, Instruction for Use of Consumer Products-General Labelling for Cosmetics (GB 5692.3-2008) also plays a very important role in designing a correct and standard label for cosmetics. It specifies what information the label shall include and where to print (see Chemlinked June 7). Since cosmetics imported for the first time must be approval by SFDA, the manufacturer must print the approval number for special use cosmetics or the record-filing number for non-special use cosmetics on the label.

Reference Links

 Administrative Provisions on Cosmetics Labelling

 GB 5692.3-2008

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