FDA Unveils MoCRA Registration Portal: Meet ‘Cosmetics Direct’

FDA introduces Cosmetics Direct for registering manufacturing facilities and listing products, a little more than three months from registration deadlines set by new cosmetics regulations, and provides looks at the forms companies will need to submit. For now at least, the 29 December deadlines stand, notwithstanding stakeholder pressure for extensions or enforcement discretion.

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The US Food and Drug Administration unveiled on 15 September Cosmetics Direct, the portal manufacturers and processors will use to register facilities and list products and ingredients with the agency in compliance with the Modernization of Cosmetics Regulations Act of 2022 (MoCRA).

The deadline for such activities is 29 December 2023.

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