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Manufacturers have asked government to maintain Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) as the regulator of the cosmetics sector.

Government is currently working on a new Bill that will transfer the regulation of the manufacture and trade in cosmetics to National Drug Authority (NDA).

In 2023, Cabinet came up with a plan, at the request of the Ministry of Health, to create a new authority that would regulate all products related to public health, medical devices, vaccines and human medicines, among others.

NDA is now meeting different stakeholders as part of the process to introduce a Bill that will establish the National Drug and Health Products Regulatory Authority to regulate sectors that have traditionally fallen under NDA, but also take on new sectors including cosmetics.

Speaking during a consultative meeting organised by Uganda Manufacturers Association (UMA) in Lugogo, Kampala, cosmetics manufacturers said the proposed shift threatens years of seeking to standardise costs both within East Africa and Africa at large.

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