LABELING REQUIREMENTS FOR COSMETICS

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LABELING REQUIREMENTS FOR COSMETICS
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OUTLINE OF PRESENTATION

• Definition of Labeling
• Labeling Requirements - Salient Features
• Small /Odd Size Packs
• Relabeling
• Scope
• Companys Responsibilities
• Premise
• Personnel
• Process

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OTHER RELEVANT LAWS

• Price Control Act
• Trade Description Act
• Weight and Measures Act
• Metrication Guidelines

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LABELING - OBJECTIVE

• To provide information for the consumers to make
  an informed choice
• AND
• To assist the regulators in carrying out
  surveillance activities

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LABELING MEANS...

• ...information
• written printed or graphic matter on the
  immediate or outer packaging and any form of
  leaflet.

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LABELING REQUIREMENTS

• Product name and its function
• Name of Cosmetic Product
• The name given to a cosmetic product, which may
  be an invented name, together with a trade mark
  or the name of the manufacturer.

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LABELING REQUIREMENTS

• Use instruction
• unless it is clear from the presentation of the
  product.

• Country of manufacture
• Example
• Made in China
• Manufactured in USA
• Country of origin Thailand

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LABELING REQUIREMENTS

• The name and address of the company or person
  responsible for placing the product on the local
  market.

• The contents given by weight or volume - metric
  or both metric and imperial unit

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LABELING REQUIREMENTS

• Manufacturing date OR expiry date
• Example
• Month/year
• Year/month

• Registration number
• Batch number

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LABELING REQUIREMENTS

• Special precautions to be observed in use.
• - mandatory
• - manufacturers recommendation
• Note
• Mandatory - Listed in the column Conditions of
  use and warnings which must be printed on the
  label in Annex III Part 1.

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LABELING REQUIREMENTS
ADDITIONAL STATEMENT(S)

• Mandatory
• Declaration of ingredients from bovine and/or
  porcine origin.

Example This product contains ingredient of
pork origin / beef origin.
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LABELING REQUIREMENTS

• Full ingredients listing
• Standard reference for nomenclature
• Botanicals and plant extracts
• genus and species

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LABELING REQUIREMENTS
A Quick Guide on 'HOW TO List the Ingredients'

• List all ingredients in descending order of
  concentration.
• Ingredients with a concentration below 1 can be
  listed at random, after other ingredients.
• Colorants may be listed in any order, after all
  the other ingredients.

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INGREDIENT LABELING
EXAMPLE

• Aqua, Cyclomethicone, Mica, Polybutene,
  Triisostearin, Quarternium-18 Hectorite,
  Polymethylmethacrylate, Persea Gratissima, Cera
  Alba, Propylene, Carbonate, Methylparaben,
  Phenoxyethanol, Propylparaben, Lecithin, BHT,
  Parfum,
• /- CI 77491, CI 77492, CI 77499, CI 77891

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NOT REGARDED AS INGREDIENTS

• impurities in the raw materials used.
• subsidiary technical materials used in the
  preparation but not present in the final product.
• materials used in strictly necessary quantity as
  solvents, or as carriers for perfume and aromatic
  compositions.

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LIST OF STANDARD REFERENCE FOR COSMETIC
INGREDIENT NOMENCLATURE

• International Cosmetic Ingredient Dictionary
• British Pharmacopoeia
• United States Pharmacopoeia
• Chemical Abstract Services
• Japanese Standard Cosmetic Ingredient
• Japanese Cosmetic Ingredient Codex

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SMALL / ODD SIZE PACKAGING
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SMALL / ODD SIZE PACKAGING

• Minimum requirements on immediate packaging
• name of cosmetic product
• batch number
• Other information
• Display on leaflets, pamphlets,
• hang tags, display panel,
• shrink wraps, etc.

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DEFINITIONS

• Immediate Packaging
• The container or other form of packaging
  immediately in contact with the cosmetic product.
• Outer Packaging
• The packaging into which is placed the immediate
  packaging.

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LANGUAGE, WHERE, HOW?

• All required particulars shall appear in English
  and/or National Language.
• Price Control Act requirements
• Easily legible, clearly comprehensible and
  indelible
• On outer packaging, or where there is no outer
  packaging, on the immediate packaging.

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Mfg / Expiry Date
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• RELABELING GUIDELINES

SCOPE

• RELABELING - Involves
• removal,
• alteration,
• replacement or
• overstickering

of original label without opening of the
immediate packaging or tampering with the
contents.
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COMPANYS RESPONSIBILITIES

• Premise/ Re-labeling Area
• Must be of reasonable size.
• Must be clean and free from any pests.
• Personnel
• Trained and able to conduct re-labeling exercise
  as directed.
• Good personal hygiene

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COMPANYS RESPONSIBILITIES

• Process
• Appropriate re-labeling procedures.
• Appropriate segregation and line clearance
  system.
• Systematic documentation.
• Use appropriate equipment and necessary items for
  re-labeling exercise.

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LABELING REQUIREMENTS SUMMARY

• Product name and its function
• Use instructions
• Country of Manufacture
• The name and address of the company or person
  responsible for putting the product on the market
• The content (weight or volume)
• Manufacturing date or expiry date
• Registration number
• Batch Number
• Full ingredient listing
• Any additional statements

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