Abstract:

With the newly revised Regulations on the Supervision and Administration of Cosmetics, the National Medical Products Administration （NMPA） has established new regulations and an improved technical system for cosmetics. NMPA has strengthened ingredient management and safety assessment of cosmetics. NMPA has put forward the requirements for submission of the safety information of cosmetic ingredients. On the basis of relevant regulations and practical needs in supervision, the National Institutes for Food and Drug Control （NIFDC） has studied ingredient management, including classification, key features and basic information of ingredients, identification, characteristic indexes, risk information and control, and use of safety information, and accordingly, NIFDC has built a “cosmetic ingredient information platform” for the submission and management of such safety information. In future, with collecting, utilizing, and analyzing of the safety information of cosmetic ingredients, as well as with integrating those databases related to cosmetic regulations and technical standards, NMPA and NIFDC will build a scientific and efficient “database for safety information on cosmetic ingredients” in China, which will provide strong big-data support in technical work and will continuously improve the supervision and safety evaluation for cosmetics.

Key words: cosmetics, ingredient safety information, database, safety evaluation, supervision