In recent years, due to the development of the world economy and the improvement of people’s quality of life in various countries, the public’s requirements for the quality and safety of cosmetics have become higher and higher, and there has been an increasing concern about the safety and health of cosmetics in the world.
Cosmetics face many problems in day-to-day supervision. First, the threshold for exporting cosmetics companies is too low. Affected by capital, technology, and management, most of the exporting cosmetics companies are small in size, with varying levels of management, and lack of R&D capabilities. Followed by inadequate inspection and quarantine supervision basis. Many of the principles, requirements, specifications and standards for imported cosmetics supervision and inspection are in principle, but they are not operability. They are raw materials acceptance, production environment, hardware facilities, processing, packaging and storage of cosmetics enterprises. No specific regulations were made. The third is the lag in technical standards. On the one hand, it is difficult to collect more complete safety and health indicators and the latest changes in the cosmetics of all countries in the world; on the other hand, most of the banned substances have no standard detection methods, resulting in the inability of the inspection of forbidden substances to be developed and the formation of great supervision. Loopholes. The fourth is that the warning on the safety of export cosmetics needs to be improved. At present, compared with the risk warning mechanism for import and export food safety, the early warning of import and export of cosmetic safety risks is still in its infancy, and it has failed to play its due role, and it is imperative to improve and strengthen it.
The inspection and quarantine departments must regulate the supervision and management of cosmetics and manufacturing enterprises, constantly explore the legal and regulatory systems and regulatory environment that are in line with international advanced standards and suitable for the export of cosmetics in China. From the source, we must address the factors that restrict the development of export cosmetics and respond to foreign technical trade measures to ensure the quality of exported cosmetics.
First, the administrative regulations on hygiene registration for exporting cosmetics enterprises should be introduced as soon as possible to improve industry entry barriers. Exports of products produced by companies that do not meet the registration management requirements are not allowed. At the same time, on the basis of the health registration and management, the company will adopt a combination of production scale, self-control ability, product risk, export country (region), and other aspects to implement the company's hierarchical management.
Second, the inspection and quarantine personnel's professional knowledge and professional ability training should be strengthened. At present, the inspection and quarantine business for export cosmetics is carried out by the Food Inspection Division (Department). Most of the staff's majors are food-related majors such as food science, veterinary medicine, animal science, public health, and lack of cosmetics-related professionals. Under the premise of limited personnel, it is necessary to continuously strengthen the construction of talents, organize professional training, and improve the business level. At the same time, an expert group on export cosmetics inspection and quarantine was set up to cooperate with research institutes and universities.
The third is to improve the detection technology capabilities is also necessary. In order for export cosmetics to meet the requirements of the importing country, the inspection and quarantine authorities should collect various national standards for cosmetic safety and hygiene and provide inspection and quarantine basis for exporting cosmetics. The testing center should also speed up the construction of cosmetic labs, and actively carry out studies on forbidden substances testing technologies and functional evaluation methods, and use powerful inspection technology capabilities to protect the quality of exported cosmetics.
The fourth is to strengthen the function of early warning of import and export of cosmetics. Efforts should be made to build an information management system that includes information reporting, verification, evaluation, entry of early warning systems, and release of warning information, so as to effectively trace the source of unqualified products, achieve data transmission and information release, and timely report and release information. Early warning. Respond quickly and respond promptly.
The fifth is to educate the company on "the first person responsible for product quality". In the process of supervision, enterprises should be urged to perform their duties as the first responsible person, be responsible for the quality and safety of cosmetics, and strengthen the self-discipline awareness of the company. Encouraging the integrity of the production of export cosmetics companies, and constantly improve the quality control system.
The sixth is to strengthen the supervision and management of cosmetics raw materials. Requires enterprises to comprehensively review the export of cosmetics raw materials, thoroughly check the safety of raw materials, and conduct self-examination and comparison according to the prohibition limits of the importing country, eliminate the use of raw materials containing banned substances, strictly control the use of limited substances, and select appropriate Raw materials evade possible quality risks. Guarantee the safety and quality of exported cosmetics from the source.
Seventh, it guides enterprises to establish and improve the quality control system. Fully implement standardized production, encourage enterprises to introduce Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), and encourage GMP certification to promote their own development. We will urge enterprises to strengthen the hygiene control of the production process, establish a product quality traceability system, an unqualified product recall system, import ledgers, raw material use verification records, and shipping records to ensure the traceability of products.