NMPA Supervision Scope Extends to Ingredient Manufacturer – Introduction of Ingredient Submission Code
According to Mr. Jiang, a considerable improvement of the CSAR is that the NMPA has extended the supervision scope to the cosmetic ingredient manufacturers. Instructions for Cosmetic Registration and Notification Dossiers stipulated that when notifying or registering cosmetics, the ingredient sources, quality specifications, quality and safety documents, etc., should be submitted. But the ingredient quality and safety documents are so many that the uploading of each registrant and notifier will cause great waste of social resources. To solve these problems, the NMPA came up with a method of ingredient submission code. Ingredient manufacturers are encouraged to submit ingredient quality and safety documents on the NMPA designated website. The ingredient submission code will be automatically generated after submission. The cosmetics registrants and notifiers can choose the ingredient submission codes when filling in the formula information during registration or notification. The ingredient submission code brings considerable advantages. It will:- Encourage ingredient manufacturers to conduct sufficient research on ingredients before submitting quality and safety documents;
- Eliminate the need for registrants and notifiers to spend a lot of time preparing and submitting quality and safety documents every time registering or notifying product;
- Reduce the difficulty for small and micro enterprises to obtain quality and safety documents from ingredient manufacturers;
- More convenient risk assessment of cosmetics, because the lack of basic data on ingredients is currently the biggest challenge in product risk assessment;
- Facilitate ingredient traceability. If there is any problem with the ingredients, the NMPA only needs to retrospectively review the ingredients in the database to know which products on the market use such ingredients which helps with vigilance.
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