To All Marketing Authorization Holders of Cosmetics

Regulatory strengthening of controls on falsified products

The board of the national medicine regulatory authority decided to implement certain changes to the labeling requirements of cosmetics in order to enhance protection against falsified products coming into the market.

The requirements as follows:

• Printed or non-peelable stickers should be placed on each commercial pack indicating the wordings “NMRA approved” and the details of market authorization holder. The sticker indicating the retail price of the product shall be used. A specimen is given below as an example.

The sticker is recommended to be implemented immediately for all batches released to the market with effect from 1^st September 2024. The batches already released to market are not affected by this decision.

The requirements will be made compulsory for imported and local manufacturing products after a grace period of three months from 1^st September 2024.we expect your fullest corporation to implement these controls and help prevention of falsified products getting into the market.

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