The labelling of cosmetic components/ingredients started off as a set of regulations to strengthen the Japanese Pharmaceutical Affairs Act. It is essential to strengthen the Japanese stansdards,because it could be easily adapted as an international standard. Thus, with the practice of ingredients labelling, it is necessary that companies who are manufactures of cosmetic products to comply with the safety regulations. As such, consumers will be able to make better choices while purchasing their preferred products.
In April 2001 and in accordance to the Health Ministry’s announcement number 331 of September 2000, both ‘negative’ and ‘positive’ listings are to be understood comprehensively (such as preservative, ultraviolet absorber, tar coloring, or banned composition preservatives). In addition,if the procedures were followed accordingly and do not violate any of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act, according to the cosmetic standards, both negative and positive listings can be combined underthe company’s responsibilities of quality and safety assurance.
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