by delphic-admin | Jul 22, 2023 | APAC
China’s National Institutes for Food and Drug Control (NIFDC) has published nine guidance documents to assist companies with registering special use cosmetics and new cosmetic ingredients. Special use cosmetics, for example hair dye and sunscreen products, are...
by delphic-admin | Jun 24, 2023 | APAC
India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MHFW) is consulting until 29 June on draft amendments to the country’s main cosmetics regulations, including changes to licensing and labelling. In a 15 May notification published in the Gazette of India,...
by delphic-admin | Jun 24, 2023 | APAC
South Korea’s Ministry of Food and Drug Safety is consulting until 4 July on proposed changes to cosmetics rules that include banning the use of seven substances in hair dyes. In a 4 May notice, the MFDS says it plans to remove 2-nitro-p-phenylenediamine and its...
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...