Recently, the China Food and Drug Administration ("CFDA") has issued the Announcement on Regulating Matters concerning the Applications for Registering and Filing the Record for Cosmetics (the "Announcement").
The Announcement states that, for domestic cosmetics that have been approved for special use, if the site where these domestic cosmetics are manufactured remains unchanged but the serial number indicated on the newly issued Cosmetics Production License differs from that on the Hygiene Administrative License Approval Document for Cosmetics in hand, the applicant does not need to file a separate application for dealing with such difference, and, instead, only should apply for having such difference eliminated at the time it applies for renewing the said Approval Document or making other changes to the licensed items. Furthermore, the Announcement clearly specifies that, for domestic cosmetics that are not for special use and have been filed under the record, if any changes arise to the filed account of the enterprise or any product information filed under the record, as a result of the replacement Cosmetics Production License, the enterprise filing the record shall, within six months from the issue date of this Announcement, voluntarily log into the Record-filing System for Domestic Cosmetics for Non-special Use to update the relevant filed information; if it fails to do so within the required time limits, the said System will have the relevant information about its account filed automatically straightened up.