Regulatory roles · Cosmetic products · EU and Great Britain
A safety assessor who signs your Cosmetic Product Safety Report
Cosmetic Products
Under Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, the Cosmetic Product Safety Report (CPSR) is signed by a safety assessor. We take on the role: a qualified safety assessor signs your CPSR, and that signature is a conclusion, not a conditional opinion.
What the role covers
What we do as your safety assessor
- A CPSR, Parts A and B, in English, signed by a qualified safety assessor.
- The report produced in three phases, or the validation of a report you have prepared.
- The Product Information File (PIF) alongside it, if you need one.
What the signature means. A safety assessor’s sign-off is a professional conclusion. We do not sign a report and record, beside it, that further testing would be advisable. If the data are not there, the gap is closed first, by scoped testing or by changing what the product claims, and then the report is signed.
Products near a border. If it is still open whether a product is cosmetic or medicinal, we document the risk and you accept it in writing before the CPSR is signed.
Markets. The EU and Great Britain. The assessment follows the Cosmetics Regulation and the guidance of the Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (SCCS).
Questions people ask
Is the safety assessor the same as the EU Responsible Person?
No. The safety assessor signs the CPSR. The EU Responsible Person answers for the product on the EU market under Article 4 of the Cosmetics Regulation and keeps the product file available. We take on both roles. See EU Responsible Person.
We already have a CPSR. Can you work with it?
Yes. We can validate a CPSR or a PIF prepared by you or by another provider and tell you what is missing.
When can the report be signed?
When its inputs are in: the formula review, the raw-material data and the test results. Once those are complete, we can tell you whether your date holds.
We also sell in Great Britain. Does that change anything?
Tell us at the start. The UK Responsible Person reviews the product file before the product is notified on Submit Cosmetic Product Notification (SCPN), so the file has to be ready for both markets. See UK Responsible Person.
Where this role sits
- Step: Safety report and product file
- Before it: Formula and testing · After it: Label, ingredients and claims
- Related roles: EU Responsible Person · UK Responsible Person · all Regulatory roles
- Beside the role: Ongoing support for monthly regulatory support
What happens next
Our team replies to every enquiry and asks for the product, the markets and the date you are working to.