Content required to write on the label of cosmetics in Vietnam

Content required to write on the label of cosmetics in Vietnam (Illustrative Image)

According to Circular 06/2011/TT-BYT, the content required to write on the label of cosmetics in Vietnam include:

The cosmetic product’s label in Vietnam must be suitable for requirements for the cosmetic label writing set by The ASEAN. The following contents must be presented on the label:

- The product’s name and function, unless the presented form of product has been displayed clearly the product’s function;

- The usage instruction, unless the presented form clearly been displayed the product’s using manner;

- The full formula ingredients: must write clearly ingredients according to the international nomenclature regulated for latest printed forms mentioned at point c, clause 1, Article 5 of this Circular (unnecessary  to write the percent rate of ingredients);

- The country where the product was made;

- The name and the address of organizations or individuals who are responsible for putting products on market (written fully in Vietnamese according to the business registration certificate or the investment permission certificate);

- Quantification is presented with weight or volume, in regard to the meter system or the meter system and the British system;

- The manufacture lot number;

- The manufacture day or the expiry must be clearly presented (i.e.: day/month/year). The date writing way must clearly be presented and involved of month/year or day/month/year in right order. The “expiry” or “the best using before date” can be exerted, if necessary, can add the instructed condition needs obey to make sure of the product’s stability.

Referring to products with the stability below 30 months, the writing of expiry day is compulsory;

- Warning about safety for usage; especially, warnings in the “usage condition and required alarms are compelled to be printed the product’s label” column is referred in Appendices of ASEAN Cosmetic Treaty; these alarms are compelled to be printed on the label.

In case, the size, the form, or the package material can not be fully printed information which is regulated in charter 1 of this Circular on the original label, these required contents have to be printed on the auxiliary label attached with the cosmetic product and on the original label must figure out the position in which these contents are printed.

The following information is compelled to be printed on the original label of product‘s the direct packing:

- The product’s name;

- The product lot number.

More details can be found in Circular 06/2011/TT-BYT, which comes into effect in Vietnam from April 01, 2011.

Thuy Tram

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