China Mulls More Onerous Cosmetics Reclassification
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
A China proposal to re-categorize some cosmetics products as “special use” could require more than 50,000 products to follow a more lengthy licensing, registration process. Industry in Asia recently addressed concerns in letter to Chinese officials.
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