As a business player, especially in the cosmetics industry, ensuring that products are registered with BPOM (Food and Drug Administration) is an important step to ensure consumer safety and trust.
Registering with BPOM not only ensures regulatory compliance, but also provides assurance that your products have passed safety and quality tests.
That way, consumers will feel more confident using your products, and increase competitiveness in the market.
The BPOM check process is also important for businesses to ensure there are no counterfeit products that can damage brand reputation.
Through BPOM checks, you can ensure that every product on the market has a valid license. This is important to protect your business from legal risks and to maintain credibility in the eyes of consumers.
So, how to do a BPOM check for cosmetic products and why is this step so important for your business? Here’s the explanation.
BPOM at a glance
BPOM stands for the Food and Drug Administration. It is similar to the European Medicines Agency (MEA) in Europe and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States, with its main task being to oversee the circulation of medicines and food throughout Indonesia.
The supervision of drugs and food aims to ensure that all products are safe for consumption, do not contain harmful ingredients, and are dosed according to regulations, so as not to harm consumers. This also applies to cosmetic products; some ingredients in cosmetic products need to be monitored for dosage, including the percentage of safe ingredients and hazardous ingredients that should be avoided altogether.
By ensuring that the products you produce have the original BPOM number and have been registered, this indicates that the product is safe because it has passed the tests and supervision of BPOM.
Why Check BPOM Cosmetics?
Ensuring your cosmetic products are registered with BPOM is not just about complying with the rules, but also has several important benefits for businesses, including:
- Ensuring Product Safety
BPOM has tested the safety of registered products, so it can be ensured that the products do not contain harmful ingredients that can harm consumers.
- Increase Consumer Trust
The BPOM registration number makes consumers more confident in using your product because they know the product has met the safety standards set by the government.
- Avoiding Legal Sanctions
Selling products without a BPOM registration number can result in a maximum imprisonment of 15 years and a maximum fine of 1.5 billion rupiah (Law No. 36/2009). This can certainly harm your business reputation.
- Protecting Brand Reputation
BPOM checks also help protect your brand from the circulation of counterfeit or illegal products that can damage your business’ reputation in the market.
How to Check BPOM Cosmetics
To confirm whether a cosmetic product has been registered with BPOM, businesses can follow these steps:
- Check BPOM Cosmetics Manually
The first way is to check the BPOM number directly on the product packaging, usually located at the back or bottom of the package.
The BPOM number usually uses two letters followed by 11 numbers. If the number is more or less, you should be suspicious of the authenticity of the BPOM number.
This simple first step is necessary because currently there are many rogue sellers who dare to falsify the BPOM number and make it carelessly.
- Visit BPOM Official Website
After doing a manual check, you can visit the official website to check the authenticity of the number on the product packaging.
You can visit the page cekbpom.pom.go.id and check BPOM with the following steps:
- Perform a product search
- Enter registration number
- Click the Search button
- Check search results
- Verification of product information
- Through the BPOM Check Application
In addition to checking through the website, you can also check the BPOM of cosmetics through the Check BPOM application available on the App Store and Play Store.
That way, businesses can ensure that cosmetic products meet BPOM standards, so they can market these products more safely and gain the trust of consumers.
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Obtaining a distribution license and registration number from BPOM is a must to protect consumers from unsafe products. This permit guarantees that the relevant parties have tested the cosmetic product through safety and quality tests.
From the business side, the BPOM license is also a requirement to maintain quality and ensure products are not harmful to consumers.
However, the process of obtaining a distribution license and registration number is often time-consuming and an obstacle for businesses.
To overcome this challenge, you can contact Kontrak Hukum. We are ready to help take care of BPOM licenses and other licenses that are required by BPOM, such as business licenses, brands, and laboratory tests.
For more information, visit KH Services – Licensing.
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