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Cosmetics

Manufacturing or selling cosmetics requires registration by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety as a cosmetic manufacturing company or a responsible cosmetic distribution company. If you wish to register as a cosmetics manufacturing business, you must possess certain facilities; if you wish to register as a responsible cosmetic distribution business, you must meet the standards for quality control and safety management after responsible sales of cosmetics, as well as hire a responsible sales manager.
To manufacture and sell cosmetics, you must manufacture them in accordance with the standards for use of raw materials of cosmetics, use safe containers and packaging, place labels of matters to be stated and marked on packages of cosmetics, and sell in accordance with the precautions for marking and advertising cosmetics.

Consumer Safety Information

This content provides legal information on safety measures for goods or services used by consumers, measures to be taken by business operators concerning defective goods, and how consumers should be compensated for damage.

Agricultural/Livestock/Marine Product Consumers

The following document outlines various certification systems of which food product consumers should be aware, including the agricultural/livestock/marine product origin indication system, Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) certification, the geographic indication system, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP), and eco-friendly agricultural/marine product certification. Food information search methods such as the traceability system are also discussed.

In addition, various report/reward systems that reward individuals who report food products that are of low quality or in violation of the origin indication system, etc., methods of settlement of disputes over food products, and methods of damage compensation are examined.

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