This Taiwan Ministry of Health and Welfare gazette notice publishes the current amended prohibited-ingredients table for cosmetics. The table prohibits mercury, arsenic, cadmium, and lead compounds as ingredients while preserving explicit residual-impurity allowances when technically unavoidable during manufacture. The loaded rows cover the table’s finished-product residual limits for mercury, arsenic, cadmium, and lead. Mercury and arsenic are recorded as total mercury and total arsenic because the instrument does not specify methylmercury or inorganic arsenic. Earlier Taiwan amendment notices in the manifest are treated as superseded context rather than separate active rows.
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