Pakistan PS 3228:2017 - skin-cream heavy-metal limits

Scope

PS 3228:2017 covers general-purpose skin creams, including whitening creams, and excludes therapeutic creams. HMI records the skin-cream heavy-metal rows that are directly expressible as elemental lead and mercury.

Exact limit and units

The table also lists arsenic as As2O3 at 2 ppm; this is documented but not converted to an elemental total-arsenic row.

How tested

The table points heavy metals, arsenic, and mercury to appendices E, F, and G. The extracted text does not provide enough method text in the table excerpt to name the analytical method on this page.

Enforcement posture

PS 3228:2017 is a Pakistan product specification for skin creams. Covered products must meet the table requirements when the standard is used for conformity assessment.

History of changes

The PDF identifies PS 3228:2017 as the third revision of the skin-cream specification and records adoption on 28 February 2017.

How it compares

The 20 ppm Pb and 1 ppm Hg values match a common South Asian cosmetic-standard pattern and are close to Bangladesh BDS 1382 skin-cream limits. The arsenic value is expressed as arsenic trioxide, not elemental arsenic.

Sources

• PS 3228:2017 Skin Creams - Specification

Update history

The five most recent substantive edits to this page, classified major (evidence or structure moved), correction (a published value or statement was wrong and has been fixed), or minor (narrative rewritten without changing the underlying evidence). Each description is derived from what the edit did to this page; the linked commit is the authoritative record, routine regeneration passes are excluded, and the full version history lives in git. When DOI minting comes online (see schema docs), each entry below will also link to a version-pinned DataCite DOI.