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recently, china's national institutes for food and drug control issued two catalogs, including,
the international authoritative cosmetic safety assessment data index; and
usage information for ingredients in marketed products
on april 30, 2024, the national institutes for food and drug control released seven documents and twelve q&a sessions, all related to cosmetic safety assessment.
we have collected the latest faqs on ordinary cosmetics filing from the guangzhou administration for market regulation and translated them into english for your reference.
we have collected the latest faqs on ordinary cosmetics filing from the guangzhou administration for market regulation and translated them into english for your reference.
we have collected the latest faqs on ordinary cosmetics filing from beijing cosmetics review and inspection center and translated them into english for your reference.
perfluorohexane sulfonic acid (pfhxs) is a highly surface-active perfluorinated compound with chemical properties similar to perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (pfos). following the ban on pfos by the stockholm convention in 2009, pfhxs has been widely used as a substitute in various products. however, pfhxs is persistent in the environment, capable of long-range transport, and may cause developmental toxicity, neurotoxicity, hepatotoxicity, and reproductive toxicity. at the 10th conference of the parties to the stockholm convention (sc cop-10), pfhxs, its salts, and related compounds were listed in annex a of the convention for elimination, with no exemptions allowed.
on january 12, 2024, china released the inventory of existing toothpaste ingredients in china (industry association version). the list, which comprises 1026 ingredients, was compiled by the china oral care industry association based on the toothpaste ingredients recorded by the association and with reference to the inventory of existing cosmetic ingredients in china (2021 edition).
on january 25, 2024, china‘s ministry of industry and information technology, the ministry of commerce, and the general administration of customs jointly issued a notice on simplifying the import and export control over mixtures containing low concentrations of triethanolamine, which will take effect on february 1, 2024. according to the notice, products with low concentrations of triethanolamine, including non-medical disinfectants, synthetic detergents, cosmetics, and inks, are no longer subject to the import & export control for triethanolamine (hs code: 2922150000), and triethanolamine mixtures (hs code: 3824999950) listed in the catalogue of license for dual-use items and technologies.
1. changes and supplements to the information for the simplified filing of marketed toothpaste products
recently, the toothpaste filing system has been upgraded. information change for toothpaste products subject to simplified filing is still available in the system. related enterprises are allowed to supplement and modify the original filing materials separately in the updated system, but cannot directly replace the original filing materials.
since the implementation of csar, according to data from the national medical products administration (nmpa), as shown in figure 1, in 2021, 6 new cosmetic ingredients obtained nmpa numbers, of which 4 were for domestically produced new cosmetic ingredients and 2 for imported cosmetic ingredients.
in 2022, 42 new cosmetic ingredients obtained nmpa numbers, with 25 being domestically produced and 17 being imported.
as of december 15, 2023, 60 new cosmetic ingredients have obtained nmpa numbers, with 46 being domestically produced and 14 being imported.
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