Starting on January 1, 2022, brands must provide safety-related information for preservatives, sunscreen, coloring, hair dyeing, and freckle whitening functional raw materials when submitting a cosmetics registration or filing application in accordance with the “Regulations on the Management of Cosmetics Registration and Filing Materials”. Additionally, all ingredients for cosmetics must file by 2023 and provide all safety-related information.
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The specific content of the safety information involves the composition of raw materials, the recommended amount of addition in cosmetics, usage restrictions, description of the type of production process, quality control requirements, and limit requirements for risk substances.
With the launch of the cosmetic raw material safety information registration platform, cosmetic raw material manufacturers or their authorized companies have successively logged on to the platform to submit information on raw material safety. After the raw material safety-related information is submitted through the information platform, the raw material notification code is automatically generated, that is, each raw material has its own “ID number”.
The efficiency of cosmetics registration and filing is increased by allowing cosmetics registrants and filing persons to only fill out the raw material notification code provided by the platform’s associated raw material manufacturer. This eliminates the need to repeatedly fill out the detailed raw material safety information.
However, since the standard’s establishment, obtaining a notification code has grown in importance as a need for cosmetic registrants and filers when choosing suppliers.
As a result, a few raw material companies have lately entered the market and used the code as a marketing tool to assert that their raw materials are reputable, safe, and recognized nationally.
The China Inspection and Quarantine Institute issued a document stating that the cosmetic raw material safety information registration platform is merely an information-based tool to help the sector increase the effectiveness of cosmetic registration and filing. The regulatory agencies are not in charge of reviewing or approving the safety data for raw materials that is recorded on the raw material platform; this is the responsibility of the cosmetics firms.
The fact that the raw material has not been approved or acknowledged by the regulatory authorities does not follow from the complete registration of raw material safety information on the platform, it was also highlighted. According to the China Inspection and Quarantine Institute, the relevant regulatory authorities will conduct an investigation and take appropriate legal action if any similar terms, such as “obtaining the raw material notification code,” are used to falsely represent that raw material has been approved or acknowledged by the regulatory authorities.
