Revision of the Specifications and Standards for Foods, Food Additives, Etc. under the Food Sanitation Act (Revision of agricultural chemical residue standards)

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Distribution date: 10 March 2023 | Final date for Comment: 02 May 2025

Proposal of maximum residue limits (MRLs) for the following agricultural chemical:Veterinary drug: Pyrimethamine.

Products Covered: Meat and edible meat offal (HS codes: 02.03, 02.06, 02.07 and 02.09)Animal originated products (HS code: 05.04)Animal fats and oils (HS code: 15.01) 

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Human health Food safety Maximum residue limits (MRLs) Veterinary drugs

Revision of the Specifications and Standards for Foods, Food Additives, Etc. under the Food Sanitation Act (revision of agricultural chemical residue standards)

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Distribution date: 10 March 2023 | Final date for Comment: 02 May 2025

Proposed maximum residue limits (MRLs) for the following agricultural chemical:Pesticide: Pyridachlometyl.

Products Covered: Meat and edible meat offal (HS codes: 02.01, 02.02, 02.03, 02.04, 02.05, 02.06, 02.07, 02.08 and 02.09)Dairy produce and birds' eggs (HS codes: 04.01, 04.07 and 04.08)Animal originated products (HS code: 05.04)Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers (HS codes: 07.02, 07.07, 07.09 and 07.10)Edible fruit and nuts (HS codes: 08.07, 08.10 and 08.11)Cereals (HS codes: 10.01, 10.02, 10.03, 10.04, 10.07 and 10.08)Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit (HS codes: 12.01 and 12.12)Animal fats and oils (HS codes: 15.01, 15.02 and 15.06)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Human health Food safety Maximum residue limits (MRLs) Pesticides

Revision of the Specifications and Standards for Foods, Food Additives, Etc. under the Food Sanitation Act (Revision of agricultural chemical residue standards)

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Distribution date: 10 March 2023 | Final date for Comment: 02 May 2025

Proposal of maximum residue limits (MRLs) for the following agricultural chemical:Veterinary drug: Dipropyl isocinchomeronate.

Products Covered: Meat and edible meat offal (HS codes: 02.01, 02.02, 02.03, 02.04, 02.05, 02.06, 02.07, 02.08 and 02.09)Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates (HS codes: 03.02, 03.03, 03.04, 03.06, 03.07 and 03.08)Dairy produce, birds' eggs and natural honey (HS codes: 04.01, 04.07, 04.08 and 04.09)Animal originated products (HS code: 05.04)Animal fats and oils (HS codes: 15.01, 15.02 and 15.06) 

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Food safety Human health Maximum residue limits (MRLs) Veterinary drugs

Revision of the Specifications and Standards for Foods, Food Additives, Etc. under the Food Sanitation Act (Revision of agricultural chemical residue standards)

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Distribution date: 10 March 2023 | Final date for Comment: 09 May 2023

Proposal of maximum residue limits (MRLs) for the following agricultural chemical:Pesticide/Veterinary drug: Isoprothiolane.

Products Covered: Meat and edible meat offal (HS codes: 02.01, 02.02, 02.03, 02.04, 02.05, 02.06, 02.07, 02.08 and 02.09)Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates (HS codes: 03.02, 03.03, 03.04, 03.06, 03.07 and 03.08)Dairy produce and birds' eggs (HS codes: 04.01, 04.07 and 04.08)Animal originated products (HS code: 05.04)Edible fruit and nuts, peel of citrus fruit (HS codes: 08.03, 08.05, 08.06, 08.08, 08.09, 08.10, 08.11 and 08.14)Spices (HS codes: 09.04, 09.05, 09.06, 09.07, 09.08, 09.09 and 09.10)Cereals (HS code: 10.06)Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit (HS code: 12.07)Animal fats and oils (HS codes: 15.01, 15.02 and 15.06)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Maximum residue limits (MRLs) Food safety Human health Veterinary drugs Pesticides

Normative Instruction - IN number 210, 16 February  2023

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Distribution date: 10 March 2023 | Final date for Comment: 02 May 2025

This Normative Instruction provides for the inclusion of the cultures of sweet potato, yacon potato, beet, taro root, carrots, peas, beans, ginger, chickpeas, yam, lentils, arracacha, turnip and radish on the Monographs of the active ingredient Cypermethrin in the List of Active Ingredients of Pesticides, Sanitizers, Disinfectants and Wood Preservatives, published through Normative Instruction - IN No. 103, of 19 October 2021. It is the result of consolidation of two previous regulations, Resolution number 1.851, of 6 May  2021 and Resolution number 2.811, of 15 July 2021, without change of merit.

Products Covered: Potatoes, fresh or chilled (HS code(s): 0701); Carrots, turnips, salad beetroot, salsify, celeriac, radishes and similar edible roots, fresh or chilled (HS code(s): 0706); Leguminous vegetables, shelled or unshelled, fresh or chilled (HS code(s): 0708); Other vegetables, fresh or chilled (excl. potatoes, tomatoes, alliaceous vegetables, edible brassicas, lettuce "Lactuca sativa" and chicory "Cichorium spp.", carrots, turnips, salad beetroot, salsify, celeriac, radishes and similar edible roots, cucumbers and gherkins, and leguminous vegatables) (HS code(s): 0709); Vegetables, uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water, frozen (HS code(s): 0710); Beans (Vigna spp., Phaseolus spp.): (HS code(s): 07133); Sweet potatoes, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not sliced or in the form of pellets (HS code(s): 071420); Yams "Dioscorea spp.", fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not sliced or in the form of pellets (HS code(s): 071430); Taro "Colocasia spp.", fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not sliced or in the form of pellets (HS code(s): 071440); Edible fruit and nuts; Peel of citrus fruit or melons (HS code(s): 08); Ginger, neither crushed nor ground (HS code(s): 091011); Environment. Health protection. Safety (ICS code(s): 13)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Human health Food safety Pesticides Maximum residue limits (MRLs)

Proyecto de Resolución de la Dirección General de Servicios Agrícolas que prohíbe la importación, registro y renovación de productos fitosanitarios a base de ingredientes activos Carbofuran, Metil Paratión, Triclorfón, Diclorvós y Cihexatin (Draft Resolution of the Directorate-General of Agricultural Services, prohibiting the importation, registration and renewal of phytosanitary products based on the active ingredients carbofuran, methyl parathion, trichlorfon, dichlorvos and cyhexatin).

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Distribution date: 13 March 2023 | Final date for Comment: 12 May 2023

The purpose of the notified Resolution is to prohibit the importation, registration and renewal of phytosanitary products based on the active ingredients carbofuran, methyl parathion, trichlorfon, dichlorvos and cyhexatin.

Products Covered: Carbofuran, methyl parathion, trichlorfon, dichlorvos and cyhexatin pesticides

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Human health Food safety Pesticides

DEAS 25: 2021, School chalk— Specification, Second edition

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Distribution date: 14 March 2023 | Final date for Comment: 02 May 2025

Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda would like to inform WTO Members that the Draft East African Standard; DEAS 25: 2021, School chalk— Specification, Second edition; notified in  G/TBT/N/BDI/185, G/TBT/N/RWA/576, G/TBT/N/TZA/673 and G/TBT/N/UGA/1507  was adopted by the East African Community Council of Ministers on 1 July 2022.

Products Covered: School chalk

Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification

DEAS 25: 2021, School chalk— Specification, Second edition

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Distribution date: 14 March 2023 | Final date for Comment: 02 May 2025

Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda would like to inform WTO Members that the Draft East African Standard; DEAS 25: 2021, School chalk— Specification, Second edition; notified in  G/TBT/N/BDI/185, G/TBT/N/RWA/576, G/TBT/N/TZA/673 and G/TBT/N/UGA/1507  was adopted by the East African Community Council of Ministers on 1 July 2022.

Products Covered: School chalk

Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification

DEAS 25: 2021, School chalk— Specification, Second edition

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Distribution date: 14 March 2023 | Final date for Comment: 02 May 2025

Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda would like to inform WTO Members that the Draft East African Standard; DEAS 25: 2021, School chalk— Specification, Second edition; notified in  G/TBT/N/BDI/185, G/TBT/N/RWA/576, G/TBT/N/TZA/673 and G/TBT/N/UGA/1507  was adopted by the East African Community Council of Ministers on 1 July 2022.

Products Covered: School chalk

Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification

DEAS 25: 2021, School chalk— Specification, Second edition

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Distribution date: 14 March 2023 | Final date for Comment: 02 May 2025

Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda would like to inform WTO Members that the Draft East African Standard; DEAS 25: 2021, School chalk— Specification, Second edition; notified in  G/TBT/N/BDI/185, G/TBT/N/RWA/576, G/TBT/N/TZA/673 and G/TBT/N/UGA/1507  was adopted by the East African Community Council of Ministers on 1 July 2022.

Products Covered: School chalk

Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification

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