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Ref : EIC 413/2

14 March 2017

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 193/2017

Brazil : Labelling Requirements for Skin Tanning Products

The National Health Agency ("Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária" in Portuguese/ ANVISA) of Brazil issued Resolution RDC No. 126/2016 on 30 November 2016 to clarify the definitions and modify the labelling requirements for three types of skin tanning products. The concerned products are (a) sun tanning lotions; (b) simulated bronzers; and (c) tanning activators/ accelerators. Tanning activators must be labelled with "This is not a sun blocker" on both primary and secondary packaging. Companies are given 180 days, for compliance, from 1 December 2016.

2. For details of the Brazilian measures and the products involved, traders are advised to consult their importers in Brazil and/or the relevant Brazilian Resolution (in Portuguese) which ia available at:
http://pesquisa.in.gov.br/imprensa/jsp/visualiza/index.jsp?data=01/12/2016&jornal=1&pagina=67&totalArquivos=312.

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3. For enquiries about the content of this circular, please contact Mr Lewis LAU at telephone number 2398 5405.

Yours faithfully,

(Ms Lydia CHAN)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry

Note: While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the above information, the Department cannot guarantee this to be so and will not be held liable for any reliance placed on the same.