On February 23, 2024, CDSCO(Central Drugs Standard Control Organization), through a circular, required all registered importers of cosmetic products in India to submit an annual declaration detailing the imported products from the date of approval of registration. Effective immediately from February 23, 2024, this directive is consistent with the regulations set out in the Cosmetics Rules 2020. ..

The CMDE under the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) of China has issued guidelines for registration and review of high-frequency beauty devices (No. 8[2023]). Manufacturers of radio frequency beauty devices classified as Class III will have to comply with the new technical review guidelines from April 1, 2024. The High Frequency beauty device Registration and Review Guidelines (No..

On February 17, 2023, the NMPA in China made an announcement on the implementation of the 3rd Unique Device Identification (UDI) of medical devices. Depending on the degree of risk and regulatory needs, some Class2 medical devices, such as disposable products with high clinical demand, products selected for mass supply, and medical beauty-related products, are determined to be in the third batch..

FDA published a Quality Management System Regulation (QMSR) final rule on February 2, 2024 to revise the current good manufacturing practice (CGMP) requirements for medical devices in the Quality System (QS) Regulation (21 CFR Part 820). FDA amends Part 820 to incorporate the QMS requirements of ISO13485 as references. Replacing the Quality System(QS) with the Quality Management System Regulatio..

With the implementation of the revised Medical Device Management Enforcement Decree (98/2021/ND-CP) in 2021, Vietnam (MoH) extended the registration expiration date for Class C and D medical devices by one year to December 31, 2022, and made distribution registration mandatory from 2022. However, during that period, companies experienced a lot of inconvenience and confusion as the Ministry of He..

The Hong Kong Medical Device Division (MDD) has announced that the “Essential Principles of Medical Device Safety and Performance” (Technical Reference: TR-004) will be available for use in the Medical Device Administrative Control System (MDACS) from 1 January 2024. Hong Kong's existing reference countries were Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, and the United States, but as the info..

MDSAP is a certification system created by five regular member countries, the United States, Japan, Canada, Australia, and Brazil, for the purpose of joint review according to international standards for medical device safety and quality control. From December 19, 2023, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety revised part of the Medical Device Manufacturing and Quality Control Standards to improve ..

According to the law below, Responsible sellers are required to report the 2023 cosmetics production performance to the Korea Cosmetic Association from January 1, 2024 to February 29, 2024. • 「Cosmetics Act」 Article 5 / Article 4 (Duty of business operator, etc.) • 「Cosmetics Act Enforcement Rules」 Article 13 (Report on production performance of cosmetics, etc.) • 「Regulations on the production ..

The Hong Kong Medical Device Administrative Control System (MDACS) has published a new technical reference document (TR-007) related to software medical devices (SaMD and SiMD) on December 29, 2023. Technical Reference TR-007 covers SiMD and SaMD risk management requirements and basic cybersecurity requirements. The software medical device technical documentation requirements for MDACS applicati..

What is customized cosmetics? This refers to cosmetics in which a person with a dispensing manager license divides the contents of cosmetics or mixes the contents of cosmetics with raw materials determined by the Minister of Food and Drug Safety. According to the law below, a list of all raw materials used in customized cosmetics must be reported to the Korea Cosmetics Association by the end of ..