The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) in South Korea consults on a draft amendment of ‘Regulation on Safety Standards of Cosmetics’ under the Cosmetic Act on September 5th, 2022. This is to strengthen the safety management of cosmetics and protect public health by regulating some raw materials that may not be used or restricted to use in cosmetics.

The main updates include:

• Remove some raw materials of hair dye from the restricted list and add it banned list

If you have any opinion on this amendment, please write your opinion and submit it to the MFDS.

The deadline for this consultation is Sep 19th, 2022.