China’s Cosmetic Supervision and Administration Regulation (CSAR) is the umbrella. 2026 added a mandatory national safety standard (GB 7916), a rewritten NCI dossier rule, and a registration/filing relief package (Announcement No. 70).
Korea’s MFDS regulates cosmetics under the Cosmetics Act: responsible-seller duties, functional cosmetics, ingredient safety standards, and a 2025–2031 safety-assessment build-out.
GB 7916 is a mandatory national standard. STSC is not deleted. The 2026 job is mapping, not throwing away the old binder.
SAC published GB 7916—2026, the first NMPA-led mandatory national standard for cosmetic safety. Read it with STSC, not instead of STSC.
NMPA published a supplementary cosmetic test method (Announcement No. 72). Treat it as a method-table update, then see if any SKU is in scope.
No. 70 eases several filing fields, encourages China-first launches, and moves raw-material safety files to company archives. Less portal typing is not less evidence.
Five things that actually moved a calendar in Q2: SCCS triage, China method packs, mercury date approaching, FDA Voices, leftover MoCRA rules.
NMPA added eight methods to STSC, including trivalent/hexavalent chromium. This is a lab-method update — check whether your release specs still cite the old method.
Three ingredient standards enter STSC. Mercury and its compounds apply 1 July 2026 — do not mix that date with the 2028 pair.
NMPA folded 18 standard projects into STSC (2015), including tighter microbiological limits for eye, lip and children’s cosmetics.