The Behavior of Illegal Addition of Salicylic Acid was Punished by NMPA
- Chaileedo Press
- Jul 8, 2022
- 3 min read
Production is the lifeline of cosmetics, so controlling production strictly is also one of the important principles in the formulation of China's new cosmetics regulations. In order to warn cosmetics practitioners, National Medical Products Administration announced typical cases of the second batch's special drug safety rectification.
Recently, National Medical Products Administration (abbreviated as “NMPA”) announced typical cases of the second batch’s special drug safety rectification. Among them, Guangzhou Saiyin Cosmetics Co.,LTD. (hereinafter referred to as “Guangzhou Saiyin”) was fined $6 thousand because its production and sales of cosmetics didn’t meet the technical requirements specified in the cosmetics record materials, and the corporate juridical person was banned from working for 10 years.
What is worth mentioning is that it is the first punishment of banning for 10 years in China’s cosmetics industry. According to CHAILEEDO, at least six “bans” have been issued in China’s cosmetics industry from September 2021 to April 2022.
As notification displaying, NMPA found in August 2021 that some consumers had adverse reactions after using TOURAN, a product produced by Guangzhou Saiyin.
By investigation, products named “TOURAN brightening lotion” and “poly-peptide repairing essence”, belonging to TOURAN that was produced by Guangzhou Saiyin in May 2021, were detected as salicylic acid which was not stated in the cosmetics record materials. The company’s cosmetics do not meet the technical requirements specified in the cosmetics record materials, which violates the relevant provisions of Cosmetics Supervision and Administration Regulations.
In addition, the products that related to the case induced consumers many adverse reactions, and Guangzhou Saiyin deliberately evaded the investigation by providing fake evidentiary materials during the period of investigation, which violates the law seriously. Thus, Guangzhou Saiyin was fined $6 thousand and its corporate juridical person was banned from working on cosmetic operations for 10 years by Guangdong Medical Production Administration.
It is reported that the salicylic acid in the above case is restricted raw material. According to Safety and Technical Standards for Cosmetics(2015 edition), the max amount of salicylic acid in skin care products is 2%. Besides, combined with the popular science article--Scientific understanding of Peeling that published by NMPA, we can learn that relatively high concentration of acid has certain stimulation and damage to the skin, the cosmetics involving acid cannot be mixed with “peeling treatment”. Thus, NMPA stops the “peeling cosmetics” and lists it on the key regulatory objects.
With China becoming the world's second cosmetics consumer market, there are many problems behind the rapid growth, as the system of production quality management of some enterprises is not perfect, and the quality control level of products is low. In particular, the integrity management and the responsibility consciousness of the main body of product safety of enterprises still need to be improved.
Production is the lifeline of cosmetics, so controlling production strictly is also one of the important principles in the formulation of China’s new cosmetics regulations. In July this year, the No.1 announcement of 2022--Cosmetics production quality management specification issued by NMPA has been formally implemented.
The implementation means that the violations and punishments to upstream producers of China’s beauty industry would be more serious. It not only demands enterprises to set up a quality management department independently and the responsibility system for the quality and safety of cosmetics, but also makes clear the responsibilities of the legal representative (or main person in charge), the person in charge of quality and safety, the person in the charge of quality management department, the person in the charge of the production department and other related positions about cosmetics quality and safety.
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