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Cosmetics Rules, 2020 (G.S.R. 763(E), 15 December 2020)

India’s Cosmetics Rules, 2020 require imported and manufactured cosmetics to comply with BIS specifications and rule-level safety provisions.

India’s Cosmetics Rules, 2020 require imported and manufactured cosmetics to comply with BIS specifications and rule-level safety provisions. Rule 39 contains routeable limits for mercury in eye-area cosmetics and other finished cosmetics, and a lead limit for permitted synthetic organic colours and natural organic colours used in cosmetics. The same rule states arsenic as arsenic trioxide and a nonspecific combined heavy-metals limit for colours; those provisions are documented as partial gaps rather than converted to elemental rows. The rules also prohibit lead and arsenic compounds for colouring cosmetics.

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