Recently, Gansu Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision has conducted a spot inspection on 40 batches of children cosmetics (mainly used by infants under 6 years old), among which the labelling of 3 batches are not qualified. Some production enterprises of children cosmetics failed to print all ingredients on the label.
7 June 2012
According to Instruction for Use of Consumer Products—General Labelling for Cosmetics (GB 5296.3-2008), all ingredients shall be completely and authentically printed on the visible panels of cosmetics sales packagings to facilitate consumers to identify ingredients that may cause skin allergy and harm easily to some children and shall be listed in descending order of “quantity”. The names of ingredients should be in line with standard Chinese names translated according to International Nomenclature Cosmetic Ingredient (INCI). If a name is not covered by INCI, cosmetics enterprises can use the corresponding name in Chinese Pharmacopoeia, its chemical or botanical name.
