After 30 years of waiting, we just welcomed the first big changes of the umbrella law of China Cosmetics supervision and administration regulations (CSAR) and it is formally released today by the national state council. It will take effect on 2021, January 1st.
Most Important Changes of the CSAR ( cosmetics Supervision and Administration Regulations )
1. A new role: “Cosmetics Registration/Filing Person”: who should be the brand or cosmetics distributors and take responsibility for the safety and quality of the products. It also requires the person to have/establish a quality management system, selling product traceability, recall ability, and Adverse reaction monitoring system.
2. Cosmetics New Ingredients Filing: According to the new CSAR, excerpt the following types of ingredients, other ingredients shall only need to do NMPA online filing (it can be completed within 5 days.)
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Following is the cosmetics types that still need to do registration:
Preservatives, Sunscreen agent, colorant, hair dye, the whitening agent
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3. Hair Growth, Hair removal, breast beauty, body fitness, deodorant products will not be categorized as special cosmetics anymore, which means such products can be filed in NMPA much much fast than usual.
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Special Cosmetics category: Hair dye, Hair Perm, whitening, Sunscreen, Anti-hair loss, and any new functional claim products.
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4. Toothpaste will be categorized as general cosmetics. But any functional claims shall provide related efficacy testing reports to support.
5. Normal Soap Bar doesn’t need to do cosmetics filing
Source: China Cosmetics supervision and administration regulations (CSAR)
