The mechanisms of handling violations of cosmetics advertising and sales in Vietnam.
The cosmetic quality checking central agency is the Vietnam Medicine Management Department – the Ministry of Health. The Medicine Management Department coordinates with the inspector of the Health Ministry, the Medicine Analyzing Central Institute, Medicine departments of centrally – affiliated cities and provinces in order to carry out and supervise the post – sale promotion activities in regard to the cosmetic product. On the cosmetic analyzing result of the analyzing state agencies, the Medicine Management Department – the Ministry of Health is the agency who controls cosmetic quality in Vietnam.
The local cosmetic quality – checking agency is the Health Department of centrally – affiliated cities and provinces. The Health Departments of centrally – affiliated cities and provinces organize to carry out the post – sale promotion activities on the domestic cosmetic, the import cosmetic which is delivered in their area, and handle problems in relation to the cosmetic quality according to the law regulations; report on statistic of the cosmetic quality management situation in their localities
For the checking and inspecting form, Vietnam law provides two forms: the scheduled check and inspection and the ad-hoc check and inspection. The ad-hoc check and inspection shall be made when discovering the products which are unqualified, don’t obey provisions for being sold on the market, or because of the customer’s complaints. In urgent cases, the competent agency has right of check and inspect without warning.
The check and inspection include contents as the following:
The priority order in checking and supervising the post – sale promotion is based on the product’s kind, origin source, label, company’s brand name, formula ingredients.
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