Korea subjects Consumer Chemical Products to Safety Check, and Relevant Safety and Labeling Standards

This is the administrative rules to enforce the Act on Consumer Chemical Products and Biocides Safety from 1 January 2019 as the Act was enacted in March 2018.

Provisions about existing risk-concerned products under the Act on Registration and Evaluation, etc. of Chemical Substances, including 23 product types (e.g. detergent), are transferred to the Act on Consumer Chemical Products and Biocides Safety, and these products are managed as consumer chemical products subject to safety check.

Designated consumer chemical products subject to safety check should comply with their own safety and labeling standards that are similar with the current standards.

Draft Text 1 is available for download in the following languages: Korean