Friday 19 / April / 2024
Muscat: The second phase of implementing the specification on cosmetic and personal care products, which requires importers to submit the technical documents of the registered products, will start from August 2021.
The second stage of implementing the standard on cosmetics includes a new package for cosmetic and personal care products (other than products for rinsing) such as those used on the skin: creams, emulsions, lotions, jelly/buttery gels, oils and serums.
This comes in line with the implementation of Ministerial Decision No. 128/2019 that considers the Gulf standard specifications for safety requirements in cosmetics in terms of regulating imports and ensuring their safety for use by the consumer.
“Importers must submit technical documents of the products registered in the second stage before allowing the releasing of the shipment by the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Investment Promotion through (Bayan) platform,” Hiba bint Yasser Al Mazrouei, a chemical products quality control specialist in the Directorate General of Standards and Metrology at MoCIIP said.
She pointed out that the second stage implementing the standard on cosmetics includes a new package of the products.
These include all cosmetic and personal care products (other than products for rinsing), products that to be used on the skin (face, body, hand, feet, etc) such as: creams, emulsions, lotions, jelly/buttery gels, oils and serums, she added.
It also includes oral and dental care products, which fall under: various types of toothpastes, mouthwash products, and perfumes, in addition to cosmetic products for using on hair (head, face, beard), such as: hair dyes of all kinds, products for curling, straightening and fixing hair, products for strengthening and reviving hair such as oils, creams, etc., hair decoration products, hair cleaning products, hair shaping products, and henna hair, sun protection products of all kinds, deodorants and antiperspirants.
Heba added, “In accordance with the regulations and procedures prepared by the MoCIIP, represented by the Directorate General of Standards and Metrology, the importers also must submit technical documents through the ministry’s platforms for approval some time before shipments arrive in order to avoid the challenges of delays at border ports.”
