Guidance for Industry: Registration and Listing of Cosmetic Product Facilities and Products

FDA, 33 min read

This lesson is a guide published by FDA.

Read the guide

What you'll get

FDA's question-and-answer guidance on who must register a cosmetic facility and list each product under the 2022 law, with the timing, no fee and a small-business exemption that depends on average U.S. cosmetic sales over three years (under $1 million, adjusted for inflation) and is lost by makers of eye-area, injected or internal products or products meant to alter appearance for more than 24 hours. It runs 23 pages, much of it on how to submit, so a body-care maker can go straight to the small-business questions in Appendix B.

Do this week

Estimate your average yearly cosmetic sales over three years, then check whether any of your products is one of the four types that cancel the small-business exemption.