This guidance provides recommendations and instructions to assist persons submitting cosmetic product facility registrations and product listings to FDA. This guidance document explains, among other things:

• The statutory requirement to submit cosmetic product facility registrations and product listings;
• Definitions;
• Who is responsible for making the submissions;
• What information to include in the submissions;
• How to make the submissions; and
• When to make the submissions.

FDA's guidance documents, including this guidance, do not establish legally enforceable responsibilities. Instead, guidances describe our current thinking on a topic and should be viewed only as recommendations, unless specific regulatory or statutory requirements are cited. The use of the word should in FDA guidances means that something is suggested or recommended, but not required.

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Related Resources

• Cosmetic Product Categories and Codes
• Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act of 2022 (MoCRA)
• Registration & Listing of Cosmetic Product Facilities and Products
• More Cosmetic Guidance & Regulations

Announcements 

• FDA Issues Final Guidance on Registration and Listing of Cosmetic Product Facilities and Products (December 2023)
• FDA Issues Compliance Policy for Cosmetic Product Facility Registration and Cosmetic Product Listing (November 2023)
• FDA Issues Update on Cosmetic Product Facility Registration and Cosmetic Product Listing (November 2023)
• FDA Publishes Structured Product Labeling (SPL) Implementation Guide with Validation Procedures for Cosmetic Product Facility Registrations and Product Listings (October 2023)
• FDA Issues Draft Guidance on Registration and Listing of Cosmetic Product Facilities and Products (August 2023) 
• FDA Has Stopped Accepting Submissions to the Voluntary Cosmetic Registration Program (March  2023)