Exploring the cosmetic inspection process to buy cosmetics 3 "Do not pursue"

In late August, more than 70 food and drug inspection elites from 11 cities in Shanxi Province gathered in Taiyuan to receive food and beverage, health food and cosmetics testing and inspection training. Since then, the expansion of the food security technology of the provincial-level inspection agencies in Shanxi Province has started.

The so-called “Food Containerization Technology Expansion Project” refers to the food and drug inspection agencies in Shanxi Province that have increased inspection and inspection items for catering food, cosmetics, and health foods. Previously, as a type of daily necessities closely related to people's lives, cosmetics inspection has always been a weak link in Shanxi's supervision and inspection capabilities. Cosmetic inspection will check what? What is the process of inspection? On August 30, with these questions, the reporter walked into the cosmetics testing room of the Provincial Food and Drug Administration.

Banned and restricted substances are the focus of detection
On the morning of August 30th, the reporter entered the cosmetics testing room of the Provincial Food and Drug Administration and saw a variety of cosmetics on the workbench. Each tested product is affixed with a test label with the inspection number of the product and the words "inspection", "inspection", "inspection" and "retention sample". Liu Tao, a laboratory staff member, said that every time a step is taken, the inspector must make a mark under the corresponding word.

According to Liu Zetao, director of the testing department, according to the classification of safety risk detection, cosmetics are classified into domestically-made non-special, domestic-made special, imported non-special, and imported special four categories, among which non-special cosmetics include baby skin care products, eye skin care products, and bathing products. Skin care products, powder makeup products, aromatic products, etc.; special types of cosmetics include freckle products, sun care products, hair dye products, hair products, perm products, hair removal products, deodorant products, bodybuilding products, breast products.

Liu Zetao said that cosmetics have no effect, not what they care about. Their task is to detect whether the cosmetics are safe or not, that is, to focus on the prohibition of cosmetics and restricted substances prescribed by the state. According to a reporter’s training material on Cosmetics Restricted Substance Use Testing, asbestos, anti-dandruff agents, hair dyes, antibiotics, and plasticizers are prohibited substances; lead, arsenic, mercury, methanol, antiseptics, and sunscreen. Agents, etc. are restricted substances.

Checking a variety usually takes 40 working days

Liu Zetao said that the sales volume of the cosmetics industry in China has continued to grow rapidly from 200 million yuan in 1982 to nearly 200 billion yuan in 2010, but the safety issue of cosmetics has also been criticized. In 2010, after the cosmetics regulatory function was assigned to food and drug supervision systems at all levels, the State Food and Drug Administration decided to use a four-year period of time to carry out a carpet-based safety risk monitoring on cosmetics on the market and thoroughly understand the safety of cosmetics. situation.

For this reason, they did not dare to take any precautions in any aspect from the sampling to the detection of the results. From the sampling point of view, cosmetics are available in high, middle, and low grades, and their sampling scope covers children's stores, small commodity cities, supermarkets, specialty stores, and large shopping malls. Usually, three full-packaged samples are taken from the same name and the same lot of cosmetics. One of them was retained and the other two were tested. Under normal circumstances, a variety needs 40 work sunrise test results. If you encounter a major cosmetic safety case, you can check it out within 7 working days. â–  reporter Lan Ling remind <br> <br> cosmetics is not more expensive the better

Liu Zetao said that according to their experience, when women buy cosmetics, there are three “do not pursue”.

The first is not to pursue effectiveness. The so-called "effectiveness" is the special effect of cosmetics, such as "whitening," "freckle," "acne," and so on. Often behind this special effect, there is a special kind of ingredient. This year, two sisters in Xiyan Town, Yixian County, Yangquan County were diagnosed with "nephrotic syndrome" after using the "Caiwei" whitening cosmetic kit. After testing, found that the mercury content of the product is 789mg/kg, and the state regulations of mercury in cosmetics can not exceed 1mg/kg.

Followed by do not pursue pure natural. Many cosmetic manufacturers now claim that their products are "natural and pure plants." In fact, almost 80% of this kind of propaganda is untrue and misleading consumers.

Also, do not pursue high consumption. Cosmetics are not the more expensive the better, nor are imports better than domestic ones. Two different products, the price difference of several times or even dozens of times, but the test results are likely to be the same composition and content.