The Double Eleven is approaching, and major e-commerce companies have started to make frequent efforts. In this shopping peak period, cosmetics, as a major consumer product category, have always been the focus of supervision by the regulatory authorities. As a major province of cosmetics production and consumption in China, Guangdong Province has 2,623 cosmetics production enterprises, accounting for about 55% of the total production enterprises in China, and more than 500,000 cosmetics management enterprises.
As a major cosmetics province, Guo Changmao, director of the Cosmetics Supervision Department of Guangdong Food and Drug Administration, said in an interview with People’s Health that since 2013, Guangdong Province has continuously carried out cosmetic safety risk monitoring every year, and has completed 46 project risk monitoring work. The monitoring scope basically covers all types of cosmetics, and finally locks freckle, acne and illegal addition of mask cosmetics as key risks.
Beware of illegal addition when buying cosmetics.
"Whether it is double eleven or normal, consumers should look at the efficacy of products rationally when buying cosmetics, and should not exceed the normal expectations for product efficacy. Be wary of three-day acne, a whitening and other publicity. Such products may be suspected of exaggerating publicity or containing illegal additions. " Guo Changmao stressed that when buying cosmetics, we should combine our skin quality and need to buy them, pay attention to the production date and shelf life of cosmetics, and prevent the cosmetics from expiring due to hoarding. In addition, to buy products from legal business channels, it is not recommended to buy in a circle of friends.
He said that Wechat business’s trading method has not yet obtained the legal purchase qualification, and it is impossible to determine the qualification of products. In addition, consumers should carefully check the product labels and identification certificates during the shopping process, and do not buy cosmetics with incomplete labels and identification information. At the same time, we should keep shopping vouchers and actively safeguard consumers’ legitimate rights and interests.
In order to enhance consumers’ attention to the safety of cosmetics and improve their awareness and ability to choose cosmetics. According to the current situation of cosmetic safety risks, Guangdong Food and Drug Administration has carried out cosmetic popular science publicity and education by shooting cosmetic popular science propaganda films, cosmetic public consultation, public lectures, and campus activities. And held a lecture hall on cosmetics production safety common sense, a lecture hall on cosmetics management safety common sense, and a university hall on cosmetics consumption safety common sense to promote the joint construction, sharing and governance of cosmetics safety.
In addition, the Guangdong Food and Drug Administration also issued the Common Sense of Cosmetic Safety Consumption, and carried out popular science propaganda through the popular form.
"Common sense of safe consumption of cosmetics" puts forward "five steps" to identify the quality of cosmetics. The first step is to look at the label, carefully check the product label information and pay attention to the safety warning language on the label; The second step is to observe the color to see if the product is black or yellow; The third step is to smell and check whether the product has acidity or strange smell; The fourth step is to look at the thinning. If the cosmetics become thinner, it means that the system is unstable or deteriorated. The fifth is to observe the surface layer to see if there are mildew spots.
Yuan Shouchun, senior assistant to the president of Guangzhou Huanya Cosmetics Technology Co., Ltd., said in an interview that the supervision of the cosmetics market by government departments is becoming more and more strict and perfect. Enterprises have always maintained strict requirements when producing products, adopting intelligent production to prevent human error. At present, although there are fake and shoddy products in the market, we have cooperated with relevant departments to establish anti-counterfeiting teams to maintain market order.
Strengthen market supervision and crack down on illegal production
In recent years, in order to control illegal addition and prevent the use of prohibited raw materials and unapproved new raw materials in cosmetics production, the use of restricted substances or permitted substances in cosmetics production has exceeded the scope. Guangdong Food and Drug Administration formulated the Work Plan for Cosmetic Safety Risk Monitoring and entrusted technical support institutions to carry out cosmetic safety risk monitoring projects and build a cosmetic safety risk monitoring system. Implement online and offline supervisory and evaluative risk monitoring of freckle-removing, acne-removing and mask products, international regulations and standards of cosmetics and safety incident monitoring, and clinical monitoring of cosmetic skin diseases.
According to Guo Changmao, in 2018, during the special rectification campaign for cosmetics safety in Guangdong Province, a total of 850 manufacturers were inspected, 408 defective products were found, 210 batches of defective products were supervised and recalled, 169 were ordered to rectify, and 79 were investigated. Special flight inspections were conducted on 266 high-risk cosmetics production enterprises, among which 188 production enterprises were ordered to rectify within a time limit, 38 production enterprises were put on file for investigation, 144 enterprises with many defects were taken administrative measures to suspend production, and 16 enterprises illegally produced and added were requested to revoke their production licenses.
Market safety supervision is an objective requirement to ensure the safety of cosmetics in the whole process. In order to standardize the production and operation activities of cosmetics, strengthen the supervision and management of cosmetics and ensure the quality and safety of cosmetics. On March 18, 2019, the No.7 Food and Drug Administration of Guangdong Province officially promulgated the first local regulation of cosmetics safety supervision in China, Guangdong Cosmetics Safety Regulations (hereinafter referred to as the Regulations), which came into effect on July 1, 2019.
It is reported that the "Regulations" were promulgated on the basis of 15 years of investigation. Guo Changmao said that the promulgation of the Regulations is more conducive to protecting consumers’ personal health needs and effectively protecting consumers’ interests. It plays a positive role in standardizing Guangdong cosmetics market, cracking down on illegal activities, guiding enterprises to standardize production and operation, establishing an orderly market competition environment and promoting industrial development.
Guo Changmao emphasized that Guangdong cosmetics regulatory authorities actively improve the supervision mode of cosmetics safety risks in our province, do a good job in preventing and resolving cosmetics safety risks, continuously improve supervision efficiency, strictly guard against strict control of cosmetics safety risks, keep the bottom line of cosmetics safety, pursue high-quality development of cosmetics, and effectively escort the cosmetics industry and the "beautiful cause" of the people. (Wang Guojing)
