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NMPA Announcement on Issuing the Provisions for the Supervision and Administration of Children's Cosmetics

CCFDIE| Updated: 2021-10-08

In order to regulate the production and distribution activities of children's cosmetics, strengthen the supervision and administration of children's cosmetics and ensure the safety of children in the use of cosmetics, according to the Regulations for the Supervision and Administration of Cosmetics and other laws and regulations, the National Medical Products Administration has organized to formulate the Provisions for the Supervision and Administration of Children's Cosmetics(hereinafter referred to as the Provisions), which was issued on October 8. The issues related to the implementation of the Provisions are hereby announced as follows:

I. Except for the requirements for labels, other provisions on children's cosmetics shall come into force on January 1, 2022.

II. As of May 1, 2022, children's cosmetics under application for registration or filing must be labeled according to the Provisions; as for the children's cosmetics for which registration or filing application has been previously made and labelling and identification fails to comply with the Provisions, the cosmetics registrants and filing applicants must complete the update of product labels prior to May 1, 2023, so as to make them comply with the Provisions.

III. Provisions related to marks for children's cosmetics will be issued separately.