Illegal cosmetics information centralized**."China Cosmetics" magazine He XinyangLast week (January 29-February 4), the State Food and Drug Administration issued Circular No. 9 of 2024, focusing on the violation of adding prohibited ingredients and concealing false declarations to children's creams, and will impose heavy penalties on it; In order to attract customers to buy cosmetics, the two companies did not hesitate to "take risks", or added excessive heavy metals, or exaggerated the efficacy of publicity, and were dealt with by relevant departments in accordance with the law; International beauty brands have withdrawn from online channels and have been "targeted" by merchants to create counterfeit products, and the goods have not yet been "realized", and the fines are in sight.
3 batches of cosmetics were added with banned raw materials
Providing false information will be punished heavily!
On February 4, 2024, the State Food and Drug Administration issued Circular No. 9 of 2024, notifying that 3 batches of cosmetics did not comply with the regulations.
Jiangxi Zhientang Industrial *** production of Yubei Chu baby summer toner illegal addition of naphazoline (adrenaline-mimetic drug, can constrict blood vessels); Guangzhou Baiwen Biotechnology Development *** produced Yu Mei Nenen Acne Cream illegally added metronidazole and clindamycin (both antibiotics); Guangzhou Yapeng Fine Chemical Co., Ltd. *** produced Rose Oss Luxury Peel Night Cream illegally added flumethasone (topical hormone anti-inflammatory drug). The latter two companies have not produced or imported sampling products after review. Jiangxi Zhientang Industry *** not only "hit the thunder" in children's cosmetics, but also provided false information and concealed the true situation, which will be severely punished in accordance with the law. (Official website of the State Food and Drug Administration).
In order to increase the efficacy of the "freckle removal artifact".
Small samples were poured in the small workshop, and the mercury exceeded the standard by 10,000 times
On February 1, 2024, the "Procuratorate**" announced a case of illegal production of cosmetics. In order to make the product achieve the effect of freckle removal in the short term and attract customers to buy formal wear, Fan and Wu joined Li to purchase raw materials and fill and produce small sets of gift boxes in a small workshop. The product caused Ms. Lu in Jiangyin City to have facial allergies, and after being sent for testing, she was found to have seriously exceeded the mercury standard and reported it angrily. The Jiangyin Municipal Administration for Market Regulation randomly sampled and tested the product, and the results showed that the mercury content in the sample night cream was seriously exceeded. After the Jiangyin City Procuratorate of Jiangsu Province initiated a public prosecution, the court sentenced the defendants Fan, Li, and Wu to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from seven to two years for the crime of producing and selling fake and shoddy products, and Wu was given a suspended sentence and fined between 700,000 and 200,000 yuan. ("Prosecution**".)
There are deficiencies in the production quality management system
74 cosmetics companies in Zhejiang failed the flight inspection
On January 30, 2024, the Zhejiang Provincial Food and Drug Administration issued the third phase of the announcement on the unannounced inspection of cosmetics enterprises in 2023. According to the announcement, the inspection found that a total of 74 cosmetics companies were ordered to rectify by the Zhejiang Provincial Food and Drug Administration due to defects in the production quality management system. Among them, Ningbo Plandi Travel Products***Depan Biotechnology (Hangzhou)**Hangzhou Bakang***Zhejiang Rongbao Daily Chemical*** and Yiwu Kaniu Handicrafts *** 5 enterprises were suspended from production and operation, ordered to rectify and filed for investigation due to serious defects in the production quality management system.
Among the companies announced in these three phases, 14 are in Hangzhou, 13 are in Yiwu, and enterprises in Ningbo, Jinhua and other places are also on the list. In particular, Ningbo Plandi Travel Products *** was pointed out in the flight inspection in 2020, and 22 problems were rectified. (Zhejiang Provincial People's ** official website).
Propaganda can "quickly remove eye bags".
A company in Guangzhou was fined 40,000 yuan for cosmetics
On January 29, 2024, Guangzhou Qimeng Biotechnology*** was punished by the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Market Supervision for selling promotional content in stores operated by Alibaba with the content of "Quickly remove eye bags, fade fine lines and dark circles, first aid vitality eye cream 120 seconds cosmetics wholesale delivery", exaggerating the "eye bag removal" function to attract customers to buy. The eye cream is just an ordinary cosmetic product, and its efficacy claim contains the exaggerated phrase "remove dark circles and eye bags", which is suspected of false advertising of the function of the product and is suspected of illegal advertising. The parties sold a total of 5,388 boxes through the Alibaba platform, and the Baiyun District Municipal Supervision Bureau ordered them to stop publishing illegal advertisements, eliminate the impact within the corresponding scope, and fined 40,000 yuan. (Guangzhou Municipal Administration for Market Regulation).
Manufacture infringing goods
A cosmetics company in Yiwu was fined
On January 29, 2024, Yiwu Micai Cosmetics*** was punished. In order to meet the needs of customer orders, the company produced 30 boxes of liquid lipsticks printed with the "benetint" logo, totaling 17,280 bottles, and it was proved that the batch of liquid lipsticks printed with the "benetint" logo (similar to the trademark "5374799" No. 1) were all infringing products, but they had not yet been **. The Yiwu Municipal Administration for Market Regulation ordered it to immediately stop the infringing acts, confiscate and destroy the infringing goods, and imposed a fine of 25,000 yuan.
It is reported that the liquid lipstick with the "Benettint" logo (trademark number 5374799) was supposed to be a product of Benefit Cosmetics LLC, a high-end makeup brand under the LVMH Group (the applicant was Benefit Cosmetics LLC in the United States, i.e., Benefit). On December 28, 2023, Benefit announced that it would end the operation of the three major online businesses, and now the vast majority of the goods sold by individual merchants on **Shopping** are in stock, or leave room for illegal merchants to "exploit loopholes". (Zhejiang Provincial Administration for Market Regulation).