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The Regulatory bits - UK/EU
Evening All. I have hopefully posted this in the right section. I was hoping I could get some views on two things relating to some of the regulatory requirements in the UK/EU for making cosmetics available.
Context: Foreign formulator looking to make skin products available, first in the UK and then in the EU later on. Stage - trying to put in place RP services, organising whatever testing needs to be carried out in the UK before launch. Have received quotes for assessments, RP, CPSR, Challenge testing.
Questions:
1) SPF testing - I am looking to get my moisturiser ‘tested’ to see if I can utilise the phrase moisturiser plus SPF on the label and in ourmybranding. Was trying to get some quotes, so far 640GBP is what I have. Other labs seem to want a long conversation or form filled before giving a number. Does anyone have any other ranges, benchmarks?
2) Relating to the PIF and registration of products on the OPSS: it seems I have two options here, do this from scratch (new account) or apparently do this via a lab using their details. Does anyone have any experience with this portion of bringing your product to market? If so, what would you advice. Purely from a cost perspective, it is cheaper by over a factor of 10 to go with the latter approach so I am leaning heavily that way.
I’ve searched through the forums and resources but have not found anything related. Any thoughts or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers!
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As a formulator and manufacturer, we have placed products in the EU market.Check European Regulation EC 1223/2009 (Article 4.1), “Only
cosmetic products for which a legal or natural person is designated
within the community as ‘the responsible person shall be placed on the
market.”We appointed a Safety Assessor who was the European Responsible Person. This person will guide you on the PIF. This file must be in the possession of the Safety Assessor / Responsible Person located in the European Union.We found it all very straightforward. -
Thank you. Much appreciated. I’m going to try and do the PIF myself and have the assessor be my RP in the UK and help with OPSS.