CDSCO Cancels FatX Registration Over Misleading ‘Fat-Dissolving’ Claims
What Happened
Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation has cancelled the import registration of South Korean product FatX Solution after finding that its importer, Tekno Midas Aesthetics, marketed it online as a treatment for dissolving fat cells and reducing their size. The regulator said these were drug claims and did not fall within the legal definition of a cosmetic. CDSCO also found discrepancies between the claims made online and the approved product label. It cited Rule 36 of the Cosmetics Rules, 2020, which prohibits false or misleading cosmetic claims.
Key Takeaways
The action shows that products registered as cosmetics cannot be marketed with therapeutic claims that effectively place them in the drug category. FatX’s import registration has now been cancelled.