台灣地區化妝品之品質檢驗概況（77~79年度）

Abstract

Recent Amendment of Law for the Control of Cosmetic hygiene delegates the Department of Health with authority to exempt premarket requirement on certain general cosmetics which do not contain medicinal components. The Department of Health promulgated the Public Announcement defining the scope and categories of cosmetics which are eligible for premarket exemption on August of 1992. The regulatory control of cosmetic hygiene therefore entered a new milestone. As the National Laboratories of Foods and Drugs is required by law to perform testings on cosmetic products, this report on laboratory findings of cosmetic quality was prepared to provide laboratory results of 1722 cosmetic samples collected by local health autorities and analyzed by the National Laboratories of Foods and Drugs during 1988 to 1990. An average rate of 20.3% noncompliance with relevant cosmetic regulations was found, and 44.3% and 11.3% noncompliant rate were found, in Medicated Cosmetics and General cosmetics respectively. Among the concompliant Medicated Cosmetics, hair dye products and hair perms represent the major causes of noncompliance, which shared 88.0% and 8.7% of noncompliant Medicated Cosmetics. As for the General Cosmetics, hair spray, hair liquid, and hair style preparations containing hazardous methanol or freon were the major causes of noncomliance (46.5%), followed by containing unlabelled hair dyes or antiseptic ingredients (23.9%), and facial creams containing mercury components (5.0%). The report also descreibes the distribution of non- compliant cosmetics among various regions of Taiwan, though the testing samples may not be perfect representative, such results still bear certain reference pruposes for administrative consideration for further improvement.