Recently, many responsible parties in the cosmetics industry who were punished due to non-compliance with random inspections, flight inspections, purchase inspection systems, etc. have pointed to cosmetic brands. Not only that, the regulatory authorities have also responded to whether "anti-sugar" cosmetics can claim "anti-aging" and have launched a new round of special inspections for cosmetic registrants and filing persons.
Cosmetics brands will usher in the strongest regulatory wave?
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Anti-sugar cosmetics claim to be anti-aging is not justified?
Official science saying "lack of efficacy evaluation standards"
"Anti-sugar" cosmetics, anti-sugar pills, anti-sugar drinks and other anti-sugar products have been popular in the market for a long time. As of press time, I searched for "anti-sugar" on Xiaohongshu, and there were as many as 280,000 related notes. Overall, the claimed selling points of anti-sugar products are concentrated in anti-aging, removing yellowing, brightening, etc.
So, as far as anti-sugar cosmetics are concerned, can it be claimed to be "anti-aging"? Recently, China Food and Drug Network and Sichuan Pharmaceutical Supervision have successively released relevant popular science articles.
China Food and Drug Network Screenshot
China Food and Drug Network in "Can "anti-sugar" cosmetics really resist aging? 》 mentioned that the product of the saccharification reaction is AGEs, which can cause skin pigmentation, resulting in dull skin tone and accelerate aging.
In the raw materials included in the "Catalogue of Used Cosmetic Raw Materials (2021 Edition), thiamine HCL (vitamin B1), nicotinamide (vitamin B3), pyridoxamine (vitamin B6), vitamin C, carnosine , chlorogenic acid , lipoic acid and turmeric , green tea, garlic, onion, cabbage, citrus fruits, tomato, parsley, beans, grapes and other natural products, , has the functions of inhibiting the formation of AGEs, accelerating the catabolism of existing AGEs or AGEs crosslinkers, and blocking the biological effects of AGEs.
Therefore, the above ingredients are common active ingredients in "anti-sugar" cosmetics. However, China Food and Drug Network pointed out in a popular science article that "the current literature reports on the anti-saccharification efficacy of the above-mentioned raw materials and active ingredients are mostly obtained from in vitro cell tests. The experimental results are extrapolated to human reliability, and their efficacy and safety need to be further verified. "
Tianfu New District Market Supervision Screenshot
related popular science article further pointed out that on the one hand, the raw materials and active ingredients of plant extracts are mostly compounded, and anti-saccharification is only part of its efficacy, and it cannot highlight the specific attributes of raw materials ingredient anti-saccharification ; on the other hand, the claimed effects of anti-saccharification cosmetics on the market overlap with freckle removal, whitening, and anti-wrinkle, and cannot reflect the uniqueness of anti-saccharification .
plus the "Cosmetic Safety Technical Specifications" (2015 Edition) that does not contain the "anti-saccharification" human efficacy test method. has not yet formed a unified "anti-saccharification" efficacy evaluation standard in the industry. Therefore, "whether raw materials and cosmetics truly have "anti-saccharification" effects on the skin surface still needs further research. ."
It can be seen that some well-known beauty brands at home and abroad have several cosmetics that claim to be "anti-saccharification". In order to make such products go further in the market, the person in charge of a certain brand revealed that he is drafting and formulating the efficacy evaluation standards for anti-saccharification cosmetics by looking for professional institutions and experts and professors.
Lin Lijun, director of makeup research and development of Guangdong Shangpinhui Cosmetics Co., Ltd., also said that the concept of "anti-saccharification" belongs to "declaring new effects", and is currently stuck in the evaluation criteria. It can be said that "'s concept of anti-saccharification is the same as the dilemma encountered in anti-aging . Currently, anti-aging has group standards, and anti-saccharification can also be carried out with reference to anti-aging methods."
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Special inspection of universal cosmetic filing personnel has come
These regulatory focus will be fined
In addition to the cosmetics specifications claiming that brands and retailers need to pay great attention, recent industry regulatory trends also need to attract attention from enterprises.
Image source: Shandong Provincial Drug Administration
Recently, Shandong Provincial Drug Administration Region The Fourth Branch is conducting a special inspection of ordinary cosmetics filing personnel. focuses on the establishment and operation of the quality management system of cosmetics filing personnel, the establishment and performance of the quality and safety person in charge, the establishment and preservation of various records, etc. .
As of now, the bureau has inspected 25 ordinary cosmetics filing personnel, 16 enterprises have completed rectification, 5 enterprises do not meet the rectification conditions, and have completed the registration number cancellation.
According to the prediction of Zhang Taijun, R&D director of Quanzhi Meifu Biotechnology Research Institute, cosmetics registration Provinces and cities with more registered persons and cities with relatively developed e-commerce will be subject to key supervision in the future. In addition, offline cosmetic wholesalers, agents, distributors, etc. will also be included in the scope of strict market supervision .
In fact, this is true, and some enterprises have been fined for the above non-compliance behavior. According to Guangzhou Market Supervision Administration , Ji**Craft Biotechnology (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd. was warned for " not establishing and implementing the cosmetics procurement certificate and tickets or purchase inspection record system, failing to establish a cosmetics purchase ledger, or cosmetics operators engaged in wholesale failing to establish a sales ledger ". And a fine of 210,000 yuan.
. Another cosmetics registrant and filinger Shenyang Sheng**tong Bioengineering Co., Ltd. was notified by National Medical Products Administration that during a flight inspection, it was found that it had problems such as " fails to effectively operate the quality management system in terms of quality management, fails to effectively supervise the production activities of the entrusted production enterprises, and fails to implement the product release management system in accordance with regulations.
In this regard, Lin Lijun believes that these actions of the drug supervision department are more to urge all parties to pay attention, "As long as enterprises and brands operate in compliance with their daily work, there is no problem. "
Zhang Taijun also expressed a similar view. He pointed out that the current supervision of the entire cosmetics industry emphasizes "traceability", which is the basis of all supervision and is conducive to subsequent accountability.
As Zhang Taijun said, "In this industry, there is no lawless person. "So, there is only one way to deal with supervision by upstream and downstream enterprises, that is, comprehensive compliance.
Text: Weining
Editor: Huazheng
