On 22 April 2024, the National Medical and Pharmaceutical Administration of China (NMPA) announced an updated Technical Guidelines for Cosmetic Safety Assessment, which will be implemented from 1 May 2024. This update will further assist companies currently preparing Cosmetic Product Safety Reports (CPSRs) to achieve faster registration.

Details of Rules 2024 nr 50 (updated on 22 April 2024 based on Rules 2021 nr 51):

• The updated technical guideline for cosmetics has published examples of both the detailed and simplified format. This change will further facilitate the process of submitting CPSRs.

• Before 1 May 2025, the legal representative or recordation of the registration can follow the officially published technical guideline to provide the required information for CPSR directly in the simplified format.

• All the registration and recordation shall follow the Safety Evaluation Capacity and Standard proposed by the Cosmetic Safety Evaluation Measures. This Cosmetic Safety Evaluation Measures addresses the importance of the following matters: strengthening technical instruction and providing a safer foundation for the supervision of cosmetic-related products.

For more information on how to comply with China’s cosmetic regulations, please contact GPC regulators  jingyan@cn.gpcregulatory.com or annie@cn.gpcregulatory.com.