About 30 pages, 17 chapters, and 15 themes to put into practice… How to efficiently deal with standard ISO 22716, which details the guidelines as regards Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), and whose implementation is mandatory for all cosmetics companies? Didier Kudla, Quality Manager at Clarins, recommends determination and common sense. He presented the roadmap of the ‘one-way trip’ to GMP during a meeting between main contractors and subcontractors held by the FEBEA (France’s Federation of Beauty Companies) last April 16, 2015.
Today, no one in the cosmetics sector can ‘overlook’ the GMP. Good Manufacturing Practices have been made mandatory by the Cosmetics Regulation since 2013 by means of the guidelines laid down in standard ISO 22716, and authorities can control they are complied with any time. Then, if a company presents too many deviations, it can be given notice to correct them, or even to close down.
GMP: Objectives, challenges, and scope
The standard actually has two main objectives, which Didier Kudla started by reminding everyone of:
• Guaranteeing the safety and quality of cosmetic products for consumers (the product is indeed at the core of all provisions in the text)
• Reducing foreseeable risks in production, and ensure their homogeneity
As for challenges, they are the following:
• Being able to be present on the various world markets thanks to a good management of GMP requirements
• Positioning oneself compared to one’s competitors and keeping the leadership
The scope is large, as it comprises purchasing, receipt, manufacturing, filling and conditioning, quality control, storage of finished products, shipment…
And, as heavy as they might seem, these obligations concern all the players involved in the manufacturing of a cosmetic product, from ‘major’ …
