by delphic-admin | Mar 27, 2023 | APAC
China’s National Institutes for Food and Drug Control (NIFDC) is inviting stakeholders to recommend further revisions to the country’s main standard on cosmetic safety, until 17 March. First issued in 2015, the Cosmetics Safety and Technical Standard for Cosmetics is...
by delphic-admin | Mar 27, 2023 | APAC
Japan has cut two additives from its positive list of additives for quasi-drugs products – and one from its positive list for hair dyes. The additives removed from the approved list for quasi-drugs are: • stearyl dimethyl amine used in hair conditioners and hair...
by delphic-admin | Feb 20, 2023 | APAC
The Philippines has updated its guidelines on auditing product information files (PIF) for cosmetics, citing a need to “strengthen the implementation and enforcement” of the Asean Cosmetics Directive (ACD). The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) outlined...
by delphic-admin | Feb 20, 2023 | APAC
China is now accepting in-house testing reports from companies filing ordinary use cosmetics with confirmed product safety risk assessment reports. In an 18 January notice, the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) outlined four product categories excluded...
by delphic-admin | Feb 20, 2023 | APAC
Hong Kong’s EPA is consulting on a proposal to impose volatile organic compound (VOC) limits on seven different household products until 28 February. The region’s top emission source is VOC-containing products, followed by road transport and marine...
