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Quality and standards

Quality and standards

Quality and standards

Evidence, not badges

How we work to ISO 22716, CTPA guidance and the UK cosmetics regime — and the line we do not cross when presenting credentials.

Buyers in every market ask for proof of competence, not a wall of logos. We describe what we do, what our partners evidence and what we deliberately do not claim.

ISO 22716:2007Cosmetics GMP
What we do
We specify and assess partner manufacturing sites against the ISO 22716 guideline: personnel, premises, equipment, documentation, production and quality control.
What we do not claim
We are not a certification body and do not issue or hold ISO certificates on behalf of a factory. Certificate copies come from the site operator.
CTPAUK industry guidance
What we do
We follow CTPA guidance on GB cosmetic labelling, claims and the Responsible Person when preparing a launch pack.
What we do not claim
Membership or accreditation is only claimed once evidenced in writing; no badge is displayed without it.
Responsible PersonUK Cosmetics Regulation
What we do
We coordinate the appointment of a UK Responsible Person and assemble the Product Information File and SCPN notification with them.
What we do not claim
The statutory duties remain with the named Responsible Person, not with a development consultancy.
CPSR and safetyProduct safety assessment
What we do
We commission and review the Cosmetic Product Safety Report with a qualified safety assessor before a formula is released for production.
What we do not claim
We do not sign safety assessments ourselves; the assessor is independent and named in the PIF.
How evidence is supplied

Certificate copies, audit summaries and assessor details are supplied in the project pack with the site operator’s permission. We never reproduce a certificate number, accreditation mark or membership logo without written evidence that it belongs to the party named.

Documentation in every launch pack

A specification with acceptance criteria, the formula and batch record from the partner site, stability and microbiology results from an accredited laboratory, the Cosmetic Product Safety Report, the Product Information File index, the SCPN confirmation and a labelled artwork proof. Each document states who produced it and who is accountable for it.

For the wider quality system — including how a manufacturing site is selected and audited — read manufacturing and quality management.

Evidence is produced in the laboratory, not written afterwards
Evidence is produced in the laboratory, not written afterwards

What we check before a site is approved

Site selection is a documented exercise, not a recommendation from memory. We look at the scope of the ISO 22716 evidence, the batch traceability the site can produce, its change-control procedure and who signs a deviation. Where a retailer requires its own audit, we map that questionnaire to the same evidence rather than commissioning a second, conflicting pack.

That work sits inside manufacturing and quality management. The regulatory side — who may appoint a Responsible Person, what a Product Information File holds and when the SCPN is submitted — is set out in UK cosmetics compliance and in the compliance checklist. Claims are a separate evidence trail again: see claim substantiation.

Questions we are asked

Are you ISO 22716 certified?

No. We do not hold a GMP certificate and we do not claim one. The manufacturing partner supplies its own site evidence, and we state plainly who produced each document in the project pack.

Do you act as the UK Responsible Person?

No. The Responsible Person must be established in Great Britain. We coordinate the appointment and prepare the technical file that supports them; the appointment itself is made with a GB-established party.

Will you print a certificate number or accreditation mark on my pack?

Only where the site operator has given written evidence that the number and mark belong to the named party, and only after the artwork has been checked against that evidence. Otherwise the artwork carries no mark.

Download the UK launch checklist (PDF)Adobe PDF · 22 KB

A printable 24-point checklist covering the Product Information File, SCPN, labelling, claims and batch release.

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