At the Cosmetic Valley regulatory congress in Chartres in November 2016, Raphaëlle Bove, Director of the Health Products and Services & Human Service Programmes Bureau, and Catherine Argoyti, Assistant Director of the Health Products and Services & Human Service Programmes Bureau in charge of cosmetic products at the DGCCRF (French General Directorate for Competition Policy, Consumer Affairs, and Fraud Control), presented their action and results of the controls carried out on this market over the past year.
With the ANSM (French National Agency for Medicines and Health Products Safety), the DGCCRF is one of the two French control and cosmetics market regulation authorities. At the Chartres congress, its representatives reiterated the Agency’s missions and made an update on the controls carried out for this industry, focusing on recent claim-related controls, on those being carried out, and on the trends that will help determine their objectives in the year to come.
Control procedures
The role of the DGCCRF is to make sure the products placed on the market are safe and consumers are protected from an economic standpoint. In the cosmetics industry, it involves:
• Supervising the market on a continuous basis in collaboration with the ANSM
• Implementing a prevention policy
• Eradicating bad practices when the industry has not integrated regulatory requirements well enough
Market surveillance
It is carried out according to different elements:
• Following consumer complaints (about 500 every year), reports, and warnings sent to the DGCCRF or ANSM, in particular using the cosmetovigilance system
• As part of the annual control plans scheduled
• By following up and closely supporting companies with the CPMM (control for first placing on the market) set up …
