Hair dye cream is the "hardest hit area".
Source | Poly beauty
Author | Yesterday (July 9), the State Drug Administration (hereinafter referred to as the State Food and Drug Administration) issued the "Notice on 37 Batches of Non-compliant Cosmetics (No. 25 of 2024)" (hereinafter referred to as the Notice).
According to the notice, in the 2023 national cosmetics sampling inspection work, after inspection by the Institute for Drug Control of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and other units, the product label indicates that 37 batches of cosmetics such as Hongxinlong hair dye cream (red) produced by Guangzhou Hongxinlong Cosmetics Co., Ltd. do not meet the regulations.
△ Source: State Drug Administration
Hair dye cream is an unqualified "hard-hit area", and there are many regulars on the black list!
Among the 37 batches of unqualified products notified this time, they mainly involve hair dye cream and sunscreen, all of which are non-compliant items for ingredient comparison.
It is worth noting that there are 28 batches of related products of unqualified hair dye cream.
Among them, Guangzhou Hongxinlong Cosmetics Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as: Guangzhou Hongxinlong), Guangzhou Ouba Cosmetics Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Haoxin Fine Chemical Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as: Guangzhou Haoxin), and Guangzhou Aocai Biotechnology Co., Ltd. are all "frequent customers" on the black list.
There are 4 batches of unqualified hair dye paste produced by Guangzhou Hongxinlong, the products are "Hongxinlong Hair Dye Paste (Red)", "Hongxinlong Hair Dye Paste (Yellow)" and 2 batches of "Hongxinlong Hair Dye Paste (Brown)", the reason for the unqualified is that the product is found to be ingredient, the product label is inconsistent with the technical requirements stated in the product registration information.
In addition, the notice also pointed out that Guangzhou Hongxinlong raised objections to the authenticity of the samples for the sampling work. After review by the Guangdong Provincial Drug Administration, the company provided false information to conceal the true situation, and falsely denied that it had produced or imported the batch of products that did not meet the requirements.
It should be noted that in addition to Guangzhou Hongxinlong, Guangzhou Haoxin is also the "old fritters" who produce substandard products. In this notice, there are 3 batches of unqualified products in Guangzhou Haoxin.
For this kind of cosmetics manufacturers who have repeatedly refused, the relevant departments of the state are also taking action to rectify it.
According to the information of the enterprise investigation, Guangzhou Hongxinlong was punished 4 times in three years; Guangzhou Haoxin was punished five times in two years. Among them, Guangzhou Hongxinlong was fined more than 100,000 yuan, and the maximum penalty was 388,000 yuan.
△ Source: Qichacha
In addition, not long ago, according to the public information of Credit Guangzhou, Guangzhou Hongxinlong was fined 140,000 yuan by the Market Supervision and Administration Bureau of Baiyun District, Guangzhou City, for failing to establish and implement a production record system in accordance with the requirements and producing unregistered special cosmetics; Guangzhou Haoxin violated Article 17 of the Regulations on the Supervision and Administration of Cosmetics because the "Haoxin Hair Dye Cream" produced by Guangzhou Haoxin was an unregistered special cosmetics, and a total of 158,800 yuan was fined and confiscated.
In fact, hair dye products have always been the "hardest hit area" of unqualified sampling inspections by relevant national departments, according to incomplete statistics from Jumei, in the unqualified announcement issued by the State Food and Drug Administration in 2023, there are a total of 601 batches of unqualified products.
Among them, a total of 178 batches of hair dye cream related products were on the list, accounting for 34.10% of the total number of unqualified, and brands such as Hongxinlong, Yimeizi, Yingtao, Haoxin, and Tianke were on the list for many times. (See details)
The sunscreen category is not in chaos, and 6 batches of sunscreen products are falsely labeled!
In recent years, the sunscreen market has been hot, and the market size is growing exponentially. According to Euromonitor Information Consulting, from 2012 to 2021, the compound annual growth rate of the two was 0.9% and 10.5% respectively, and the growth rate of the Chinese market far exceeded that of the world, and the market size is expected to exceed 30 billion yuan in 2027.
However, under the market boom, there is still some chaos. Such as sunscreen false labels, etc., and in this notice, in addition to hair dye products, there are also 9 batches of sunscreen products that do not meet the regulations.
It is worth noting that the main reasons for being notified of non-conformity are the detection of sunscreens that are not indicated in the technical requirements specified in the product labels and registration materials, and the sunscreens that are not indicated in the technical requirements specified in the product labels and registration materials.
In this notification, six batches of sunscreen products were found to contain 4-methylbenzylidene camphor. Among them, Australasia Biomedical Technology (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd. raised objections to the authenticity of the samples. After the review of the Guangdong Provincial Drug Administration, the enterprise has not produced or imported the batch of products that do not meet the requirements.
Previously, Jumei's ingredient in this popular sunscreen was banned by the European Union! According to the article, the European Union said that there is sufficient evidence that 4-methylbenzylene camphor may act as an endocrine disruptor and have effects on both the thyroid and estrogen systems, indicating that it is unsafe to use 4% of 4% of 4-methylbenzylene camphor in cosmetic ingredients. Therefore, 4-methylbenzylidene camphor has been banned in the European Union.
However, at present, in China, 4-methylbenzyl subunit camphor belongs to the list of sunscreens included in the "China Cosmetics Safety and Technical Specifications", and the maximum allowable concentration when used in cosmetics is 4%.
In addition, there were 6 batches of products that did not detect the sunscreen indicated by the technical requirements stated on the product label and registration information, which means that the product ingredient comparison was inconsistent.
According to the Safety and Technical Standards for Cosmetics (2015 Edition), sunscreens are defined as substances added to cosmetics that use the absorption, reflection or scattering of light to protect the skin from specific ultraviolet rays or to protect the product itself.
"If the labeled sunscreen is not detected in a sunscreen, it may result in the product's sun protection effect not being as good as expected, and the actual sun protection index is lower than the SPF value indicated on the product label." An unnamed cosmetics regulator told Jumei.
It is also commonly known as the "false standard" of sun protection value. Judging from the information reported in recent years, whether it is international brand sunscreen or domestic sunscreen, there are frequent chaos. Despite the stricter supervision by the relevant national departments, there are still many products that may have the possibility of false sunscreen values.
For the unqualified products in this notification, the State Food and Drug Administration requires the Guangdong Provincial Drug Administration to file a case for investigation of the registrants, record holders, and entrusted manufacturers involved in non-compliant cosmetics in accordance with the law, and order the relevant enterprises to immediately take risk control measures in accordance with the law and carry out self-inspection and rectification.
In fact, we also see that the relevant state departments are cracking down on illegal acts in the cosmetics industry, according to the State Food and Drug Administration, 22 cosmetics sampling announcements will be issued in 2023. For the cosmetics industry, only by seriously pursuing responsibility can we set an example and clear the atmosphere, and gradually build the safety of cosmetics into an untouchable "high-voltage line". Source: NMPA
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