Doctor recommendation, hospital only...A total of 237 online cosmetic advertisements in violation of the Cosmetics Act were detected
May 23, 2025
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The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety examined the sales posts of cosmetics distributed and sold online with the Korea Cosmetics Association, claiming '00 doctor recommendation' and 'hospital-only cosmetics', uncovered 237 violations of Article 13 of the Cosmetics Act (prohibition of unfair labeling and advertising activities) and requested the Korea Communications Standards Commission to block access.
These expressions were newly added as examples of prohibited expressions in the revised 'Cosmetics Labeling and Advertising Management Guidelines' in January. Contrary to facts such as ▲'00 Doctor Recommendation', 'Hospital Recommendation', 'Hospital Recommendation', etc., the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety will check advertisements (91, 38.4%) that may deceive consumers or misrecognize consumers (91 cases, 38.4%) ▲'Skin inflammation reduction', 'Skin regeneration', 'Anti-inflammatory', etc. to misidentify general cosmetics as functional cosmetics, such as advertisements (114 cases, 48.1%) ▲'Wrinkle Improvement', etc. that are different from the contents of the functional cosmetics review (32, 13.5%).
In addition, a total of 237 cases were blocked as a result of tracking and investigating the responsible sellers for 186 unfair advertisements by the first vendor and detecting 51 additional violations by the responsible vendor. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety plans to conduct on-site inspections and administrative dispositions at the local Food and Drug Administration.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
