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GB 7916-1987Hygienic standard for cosmetics (English PDF)

化妆品卫生标准

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Issued by

AQSIQ; SAC

Level / Type

National · Mandatory

Issue date

May 28, 1987

Implementation date

October 1, 1987

Scope

GB 7916-1987 is the English-translated version of 化妆品卫生标准.

China's founding hygienic standard for cosmetics, the document that first set out what may and may not go into a cosmetic sold in China and what condition the finished product must be in.

It specifies the hygienic requirements for cosmetics: the general requirements on the product and on the raw materials, the substances prohibited from use, the substances whose use is restricted together with their limits and the conditions and warnings attached to them, the limits on the toxic elements, the microbiological limits, and the requirements on the container and on the labelling.

It applies to the cosmetics manufactured and sold in China.

Its structure is the one that every cosmetics regulation in the world has since converged on, and which the later Chinese hygienic standards and the Cosmetic Supervision and Administration Regulation inherited from it: a negative list of what may never be used, a restricted list of what may be used within a limit and under stated conditions, numerical limits on the heavy metals - lead, arsenic and mercury - that arrive as contaminants of the raw materials rather than as ingredients, and microbiological limits, with the tighter figures applied to the products used around the eyes, on the lips and on infants, where the consequence of contamination is greatest.

To these are added the requirements on the container, which must not itself contaminate the product, and on the labelling, which is the only means the user has of knowing what the product contains and how it must be used. Issued on 28 May 1987 and in force since 1 October 1987.

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Document preview — GB 7916-1987

National Standard of the People's Republic of China

ICS: 71.100.70
Classification: C 51

Issued by: Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China

1 Scope
2 General requirements
3 Prohibited substances
4 Restricted substances and their limits
5 Limits of toxic elements
6 Microbiological limits
7 Requirements for containers
8 Requirements for labelling

1 Scope

This standard specifies the hygienic requirements for cosmetics, including the general requirements, the prohibited and restricted substances, the limits of the toxic elements, the microbiological limits and the requirements for the container and the labelling.

It applies to the cosmetics manufactured and sold within the territory of China.

The structure it established

This is the document from which the later Chinese cosmetics hygienic standards and the current supervision regulation inherited their shape, and it is the shape every cosmetics regulation in the world has converged on: a negative list of substances that may never be used, and a restricted list of substances that may be used within a stated limit and under stated conditions and warnings.

To those are added numerical limits on the toxic elements - lead, arsenic and mercury - which arrive as contaminants of the raw materials rather than as ingredients, and microbiological limits on the finished product.

Where the limits tighten

On the products used around the eyes, on the lips and on infants. The eye is not protected by an intact skin barrier, a lip product is swallowed in use, and an infant has neither the mass nor the metabolism of an adult; the microbiological and compositional limits are set accordingly.

The last clauses cover the container, which must not itself contaminate what it holds, and the labelling, which is the only means the user has of knowing what the product contains and how it is to be used.

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This preview omits tables, figures, formulas and parts of the technical clauses. The complete document — 15 pages — is available in the English PDF.

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