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Korea proposes an amendment to cosmetics regulation
In February
2022, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) in South Korea proposed
amendments to the ‘Regulation on Safety Standards, etc. of Cosmetics’. This is
the cosmetics policy enacted in 2015 to guide the manufacture and import of cosmetics
and their safety control, it provides a framework for determining the raw materials
that can not be used in cosmetics.
The Ministry
proposes that persistent pollutants, some components of perfluorinated
compounds and 1, 2, 4-trihydroxybenzene should be added to the list of prohibited
ingredients while benzalkonium chloride should be prohibited from use as a
preservative in spray-type products. It also proposes the maximum limit
concentration of ingredients used as hair dye.
Furthermore,
some prohibited ingredients are to be established as new exceptions. There are
proposed management standards for CBD and THC and radioactive materials and fluorescent
brightener 367 have new permissible limits.
The final
date to comment on this notification is April 28, 2022.
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