Q1   What content should be marked on the Chinese label when filing ordinary cosmetics?

Q2 What are the requirements for the certificate of sales onthemarket when importing ordinary cosmetics for record?

Answer: According to the provisions of Article 27, paragraph 1, item 4 of the "Regulations on the Administration of Cosmetics Registration and Filing Materials": imported products should be provided by the cosmetics registrant, the country where the filing person is located, or the competent government department or industry association of the country (region) of production. The listed sales certification documents issued by the institution, except those produced by the domestic registrant or filing person entrusted by the overseas production enterprise and the product formula is specially designed for the Chinese market. The listed sales certification documents shall at least state the name of the registrant, filing person or manufacturer, product name, name of the institution that issued the document, and the date of issuance of the document, which shall be signed and confirmed by the institution.

1. If there is both an imported part and a domestic part of the combined packaged product, only the marketed sales certificate of the imported part should be submitted.

2. If the sales package is specially designed for the Chinese market, the product should be submitted in the country where the cosmetics registrant, filing person is located or the country (region) where the product has been marketed and sold. At the same time, submit the product formula, production process and cosmetics registrant, filing. The explanatory materials that are consistent with the product in the country where the person is located or the country (region) of production.

Q3   The registered production process of ordinary cosmetics involves segmented production, how to identify the name and address of the manufacturer on the label?

Answer: According to Article 10, Paragraph 1, Item 3 of the Measures for the Administration of Cosmetics Labels: the name and address of the manufacturer should be marked with the name and address of the manufacturer that completed the last process of contacting the contents. If the registrant or filer entrusts multiple production enterprises to complete the final process of contacting the contents at the same time, they may mark the name and address of each entrusted production enterprise at the same time, and indicate the specific production enterprise of the product by code or other means.

Q4   How to fill in the product naming basis when filing ordinary cosmetics?

Answer: According to Article 28 of the "Regulations on the Administration of Cosmetics Registration and Filing Materials", the product name naming basis should specify the brand name, common name and attribute name, and explain their specific meanings respectively. Imported products shall explain the foreign and Chinese names respectively, and explain the corresponding relationship between the Chinese names and the foreign names (except those specially designed for the Chinese market without foreign names).

Q5   The sales package of the registered cosmetics has changed, what materials need to be submitted?

Answer: According to Article 50 of the "Regulations on the Administration of Cosmetics Registration and Filing Materials": if the sales packaging of registered or filed products changes, in accordance with the principle of Article 32, before the new sales packaging products are listed, re-upload the product sales packaging the label picture or give a remark to the part to be changed.

Q6   How to mark the service life of the product on the cosmetic label?

Answer: According to Article 14 of the "Administrative Measures for Cosmetics Labeling", the product use period should be marked on the visible surface of the sales package in one of the following ways, and the corresponding guide words should be introduced:

(1) Production date and shelf life. The production date should be marked in Chinese characters or Arabic numerals in the order of four-digit year, two-digit month and two-digit date;

(2) Production batch number and expiration date. 

For products with packaging boxes, when the expiry date is marked on the packaging container that directly contacts the contents, in addition to the above methods, the method of marking the production batch number and the expiry date after opening can also be used.

 When the sales package contains multiple individually packaged products, each individual package shall be marked with the expiration date, and the expiration date on the visible surface of the sales package shall be marked according to the expiration date of the individually packaged product that expires earliest; The expiry date of the individually packaged product.