SAWS to Enforce More Severe Punishment for Non-Compliance of the Revised HC Registration Measures

August 23, 2012

On August 20, 2012, SFDA started to seek public comments on a notice concerning a newly-added licensing procedure to further regulate the format and content of submitted application dossiers.

22 August 2012

Under the notice, SFDA will issue a new result “recommend approval after information supplementation”, if the following situations occur:

20 August 2012

According to the notice, cosmetic manufacturers that already obtain the hygiene license or record keeping certificate from SFDA, are allowed to apply for one-time modification of names, addresses, responsible agents in China together with product information that is under processing. Documents that have been submitted before need not submitting repeatedly.

China releases plan to formulate and revise a bunch of national standards: GB 13690 to be revised again and the first GB standard on GHS classification for chemical hazard to the ozone layer is officially put on the agenda

20 August 2012

China is beginning from 2012 the formulation and revision of two compulsory national standards (so called GB standards) regarding China GHS classification, according to a recent ministerial notice issued from China’s Standardization Administration (SAC) on August the 13th. The two GBs will go together with in all over two thousand compulsory (1,124) and recommended (1,052) national standards which SAC has determined to lay down by 2014 as a first group of its 2012 national standard plan.

August 15, 2012

With a view to filling in the blanks of some fields regarding to inspection of imported and exported food and cosmetics, recently, four industrial standards (HJ), formulated by Shan Xi Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, have passed the examination organized by the Certificate and Accreditation Administration of the People’s Republic of China (CNCA) and got the approval.

A three-month special inspection over 127 companies of hazardous chemicals is launched in Tianjin in early August focusing on the involved major hazard installations and newly built factories equipped with hazardous chemicals process technologies

14 August, 2012

In Tianjin, a three-month special inspection over 127 companies of hazardous chemicals has recently been planned by the city’s administration of work safety, according to news from ccin.com.cn. The special check will focus on the involved major hazard installations and newly built factories equipped with hazardous chemicals process technologies.

China published regulations on pharmaceutical excipients supervision to realize full supervision of the pharmaceutical production and supply chain since 1 February 2013.

AQSIQ published the announcement 110 of 2012 to emphasize the safety evaluation information of cosmetics imported and exported

9 August, 2012

China is implementing from July 2012 a new state fund on the disposal treatment of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) products, according to a joint notice published by five Chinese departments in the middle May of 2012. Domestic producers and import consignees of six groups of products – TV sets, refrigerators, washing machines, air-conditioners and computers – now face a WEEE fund ranging from ¥7 to ¥13 per machine or part units. Also, companies that have been certified for the disposal treatment of WEEE products will enjoy a national allowance for their WEEE disposal treatment.

On 7 August, 2012, SFDA started to seek views on approval of Phenylethyl Resorcinol as a cosmetic raw material. The deadline for this commentary is 31 August, 2012.