DG SANCO Meeting with China Food and Drug Administration

2014-09-02 | Beijing

DG SANCO, CFDA, Chinese experts and EU experts in the cosmetics industry had a whole day communication and exchange on the regulatory and technical issues on 2 September. It was a very open discussion, and very well participated. All parties welcomed such a good communication opportunity, and agreed that it was a very healthy way to cooperate for both regulators and experts in China and EU side. In the morning session, EU experts introduced Animal Testing Bans in the EU and Status of Alternative methods, detailed introduction of the Safety Assessment Procedure of Finished Products and Efficacy Assessment Guideline on Cosmetics. In the afternoon session, CAFCCI expert and Shi Yue from IMPLAD introduced the 8783 version used ingredients list and responded to our reported suspicious missing ingredients by EUCCC Cosmetics Working Group. EU experts introduced the principles and Practical Aspects of Labelling of Cosmetics in the EU. Director Qi Liubin introduced the process of new ingredients registration, domestic non functional on line notification and imported non functional decentralization.