Proposed ban on the use of sodium dehydroacetate as a food additive (1page)
Distribution date: 18 December 2002 | Final date for Comment: 27 February 2025
Sodium dehydroacaetate (C8H7O4Na) is the sodium salt of dehydroacetaic acid, and has been used in food as a preservative. In the Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu, sodium dehydroacaetate has been permitted to be used in cheese
Products Covered: Sodium dehydroacetate
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Amendment of the Food Sanitation Law (available in English, 7 pages).
Distribution date: 06 December 2002 | Final date for Comment: 27 February 2025
The main items in the amendment of the Food Sanitation Law are as follows: (a) Clarification of the responsibilities of the dealers. (b) Introduction of a positive list system for agricultural chemical residues. (c) Provisions to delete food additives fro
Products Covered: Food and food additives, apparatus and containers/packages for food and food additives.
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Draft Commission Directive relating to restrictions on the marketing and use of arsenic (tenth adaptation to technical progress to Council Directive 76/769/EEC) - 5 pages, English.
Distribution date: 05 December 2002 | Final date for Comment: 27 February 2025
Products Covered: Arsenic-treated wood
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Ministerial Act number 195, October 7th 2002 (Portaria no. 195 de 7 de outubro de 2002), issued by Inmetro, on the quality requirements for steel angles produced by hot lamination. (15 pages, in Portuguese).
Distribution date: 05 December 2002 | Final date for Comment: 27 February 2025
Products Covered: Laminated steel angles (HS 73.02)
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Addendum to Regular Notification
Distribution date: 02 December 2002 | Final date for Comment: 27 February 2025
Products Covered:
Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification
"Draft of Scope and Application Standards of Food Additives: 8. Nutritional Additives" (available in English, 12 pages).
Distribution date: 02 December 2002 | Final date for Comment: 27 February 2025
1. The upper limits of these nutritional additives mentioned in item 3 in foods are regulated as 150 per cent of the recommended daily nutrient allowances (RDNAs). General foods are calculated on basis of the RDNA for 16-year-old male, and infant (supple
Products Covered: The following nutritional additives: vitamin A, B1, B2, B6, B12, C, D, E, niacin, folic acid, compounds containing calcium, iron, iodine.
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Partial Amendment of Agricultural Chemicals Regulation Law (available in English, 1 page).
Distribution date: 27 November 2002 | Final date for Comment: 27 February 2025
Under the existing law, importers and manufacturers of agricultural chemicals are required to register agricultural chemicals with the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries before they sell those chemicals to Japan. After the amendment, in orde
Products Covered: Agricultural Chemicals (HS:3208 imported agricultural chemicals)
Regulation Type: Emergency notifications (SPS)
Amendment of the Official Standards for Ordinary Fertilizers (4 pages, available in English)
Distribution date: 19 November 2002 | Final date for Comment: 27 February 2025
Products Covered: Fertilizer (HS: 3103, 3105)
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Revision of Cosmetic Regulation under the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law. (available in English, 1 page)
Distribution date: 07 November 2002 | Final date for Comment: 27 February 2025
Products Covered: Cosmetics (HS: 30.03, 33.04, 33.05, 33.06, 33.07, 34.01)
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Nicaraguan Mandatory Technical Standard on the Sampling of Formulated Chemical Pesticides for Agricultural Use (20 pages, in Spanish).
Distribution date: 05 November 2002 | Final date for Comment: 27 February 2025
This Standard establishes the procedures for taking, preparing and sending samples of chemical pesticides for agricultural use for quality control purposes.
Products Covered: Formulated chemical pesticides for agricultural use
Regulation Type: Regular notification
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