What is ISO 22716:2007 Good Manufacturing Practice for Cosmetics?

On 21 April 2011, the Official Journal of the European Union (EU) published EN ISO 22716: 2007 Cosmetics - Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) - Guidance on Good Manufacturing Practice (ISO 22716:2007), announcing that the guidance officially became the GMP regulating standard for EU Cosmetics Regulation (EC) No.1223/2009. In other words, compliance with EN ISO 22716: 2007 means compliance with GMP requirements of the EU Cosmetics Regulation.

Benefits of Implementation:

- Reduce a company's costs through standardized management

- Comprehensively improve the product quality and image of a company through the implementation of certification

- Help a company connect with the international market, which is conducive to its export expansion

- Confirm the buyers' confidence in a company's products

- Strengthen a company's awareness of quality management, customer complaint management, and change of management

- By authentication, the need for future repeated factory inspections is eliminated

- Manage production plants, raw materials, and packaging materials, production process, storage and entry and exit of finished products, personnel, hygiene, etc. in a scientific manner; a set of standard anti-corrosion efficiency evaluation methods are established for simple packaging to accurately predict the resistance to microbial contamination.

Applicable Scope

ISO 22716/GMPC is designed for the cosmetics-related industrial chain. It sets out specific requirements for manufacturers' plants, equipment, personnel, factory management and control, and other hardware and software aspects.

It shall apply to any organization in the cosmetics-related industrial chain that wishes to improve its operations, regardless of its size or sector.