Distribution date: 04 May 2023 | Final date for Comment: 10 June 2023

This draft resolution regards the proposal to include the active ingredient P71: PYRIOPHENONE on the Monograph List of Active Ingredients for Pesticides, Sanitizing Disinfectants and Wood Preservers, published by Normative Instruction number 103 - 19 October 2021 on the Brazilian Official Gazette (DOU - Diário Oficial da União).  

Products Covered: Organic chemicals (HS code(s): 29); Environment. Health protection. Safety (ICS code(s): 13)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 04 May 2023 | Final date for Comment: 10 June 2023

This draft resolution regards the proposal to include the active ingredient I32 - ISOCYCLOSERAM in the Monograph List of Active Ingredients for Pesticides, Sanitizing Disinfectants and Wood Preservers, published by Normative Instruction 103, 19 October 2021, in the Brazilian Official Gazette (DOU - Diário Oficial da União).

Products Covered: Organic chemicals (HS code(s): 29); Environment. Health protection. Safety (ICS code(s): 13)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 05 May 2023 | Final date for Comment: 03 July 2023

 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is announcing that we have filed a color additive petition, submitted by Environmental Defense Fund, et al., proposing that FDA repeal the color additive regulation providing for the use of titanium dioxide in foods.

Products Covered: Inorganic or mineral colouring matter, n.e.s.; preparations based on inorganic or mineral colouring matter of a kind used for colouring any material or produce colorant preparations (excl. preparations of heading 3207, 3208, 3209, 3210, 3213 and 3215); inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores, whether or not chemically defined (HS code(s): 3206); Food technology (ICS code(s): 67)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 09 May 2023 | Final date for Comment: 30 April 2025

MAPA/SDA Ordinance No. 430, 19 October 2021, which opened public consultation on a proposal of technical regulation of identity and quality requirements for boiled ham, superior cooked  ham, tender cooked ham, and poultry cooked ham, notified as G/TBT/N/BRA/1274 was adopted as MAPA/SDA Ordinance No. 765, 6 April 2023.

Products Covered: Prepared or preserved meat, offal or blood (excl. sausages and similar products, and meat extracts and juices) (HS code(s): 1602); Meat, meat products and other animal produce (ICS code(s): 67.120)

Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification

Distribution date: 09 May 2023 | Final date for Comment: 08 July 2023

This Draft East African Standard prescribes the requirements, sampling and test methods for household fabric softeners.

Products Covered: SOAP, ORGANIC SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS, WASHING PREPARATIONS, LUBRICATING PREPARATIONS, ARTIFICIAL WAXES, PREPARED WAXES, POLISHING OR SCOURING PREPARATIONS, CANDLES AND SIMILAR ARTICLES, MODELLING PASTES, ‘DENTAL WAXES’ AND DENTAL PREPARATIONS WITH A BASIS OF PLASTER (HS code(s): 34); Surface active agents (ICS code(s): 71.100.40)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 09 May 2023 | Final date for Comment: 30 April 2025

This Draft East African Standard prescribes the requirements, sampling and test methods for baby toilet soap.

Products Covered: SOAP, ORGANIC SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS, WASHING PREPARATIONS, LUBRICATING PREPARATIONS, ARTIFICIAL WAXES, PREPARED WAXES, POLISHING OR SCOURING PREPARATIONS, CANDLES AND SIMILAR ARTICLES, MODELLING PASTES, ‘DENTAL WAXES’ AND DENTAL PREPARATIONS WITH A BASIS OF PLASTER (HS code(s): 34); Surface active agents (ICS code(s): 71.100.40)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 09 May 2023 | Final date for Comment: 08 July 2023

This Draft East African Standard prescribes the requirements, sampling and test methods for household fabric softeners.

Products Covered: SOAP, ORGANIC SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS, WASHING PREPARATIONS, LUBRICATING PREPARATIONS, ARTIFICIAL WAXES, PREPARED WAXES, POLISHING OR SCOURING PREPARATIONS, CANDLES AND SIMILAR ARTICLES, MODELLING PASTES, ‘DENTAL WAXES’ AND DENTAL PREPARATIONS WITH A BASIS OF PLASTER (HS code(s): 34); Surface active agents (ICS code(s): 71.100.40)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 09 May 2023 | Final date for Comment: 30 April 2025

REPEAL OF ECUADORIAN TECHNICAL REGULATION OF THE ECUADORIAN STANDARDIZATION INSTITUTE (RTE INEN) NO. 088: "SURFACE TENSION AGENTS", AMENDMENT NO. 1, AMENDMENT NO. 2, AMENDMENT NO. 3 AND AMENDMENT NO. 4, IN FORCE The Republic of Ecuador hereby advises that Technical Regulation of the Ecuadorian Standardization Institute (RTE INEN) No. 088 "Surface tension agents", notified in document G/TBT/N/ECU/106/Add.1 of 24 October 2014, and Amendments No. 1 (notified in document G/TBT/N/ECU/106/Add.2 of 13 January 2016), No. 2 (notified in document G/TBT/N/ECU/106/Add.3 of 15 January 2016), No. 3 (notified in document G/TBT/N/ECU/106/Add.4 of 26 October 2016) and No. 4 (notified in document (G/TBT/N/ECU/106/Add.5 of 10 February 2017) thereto, have been suspended and declared null and void. Text available from: Ministerio de Producción, Comercio Exterior, Inversiones y Pesca (Ministry of Production, Foreign Trade, Investment and Fisheries), Subsecretaría de Calidad (Under-Secretariat for Quality), Organismo Nacional de Notificación (National Notification Authority): TBT enquiry point: Jeannette Mariño Plataforma Gubernamental de Gestión Financiera - Piso 8 Bloque amarillo Av. Amazonas entre Unión Nacional de Periodistas y Alfonso Pereira Quito, Ecuador Tel.: (+593-2) 3948760, Ext. 2252/2254 Email: [email protected] [email protected][ mailto:[email protected] ] [email protected] [email protected][ mailto:[email protected] ] (1) This information can be provided by including a website address, a PDF attachment, or other information on where the text of the final measure/change to the measure/interpretative guidance can be obtained.

Products Covered: 34.01.11.00, 34.01.19.00, 34.01.19.10, 34.01.19.90, 34.01.20.00, 34.01.30.00, 34.02.11.10, 34.02.11.90, 34.02.12.10, 34.02.12.90, 34.02.13.10

Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification

Distribution date: 09 May 2023 | Final date for Comment: 30 April 2025

WITHDRAWAL OF THE DRAFT FIRST REVISION OF ECUADORIAN TECHNICAL REGULATION (PRTE INEN) NO. 088 (1R): "DETERGENTS AND SOAPS" The Republic of Ecuador hereby advises that the draft first revision of Ecuadorian Technical Regulation (PRTE INEN) No. 088 (1R): "Detergents and soaps", notified in document G/TBT/N/ECU/473 of 6 June 2019, has been suspended and declared null and void. Text available from: Ministerio de Producción, Comercio Exterior, Inversiones y Pesca (Ministry of Production, Foreign Trade, Investment and Fisheries), Subsecretaría de Calidad (Under-Secretariat for Quality), Organismo Nacional de Notificación (National Notification Authority): TBT enquiry point: Jeannette Mariño Plataforma Gubernamental de Gestión Financiera - Piso 8 Bloque amarillo Av. Amazonas entre Unión Nacional de Periodistas y Alfonso Pereira Quito, Ecuador Tel.: (+593-2) 3948760, Ext. 2252/2254 Email: [email protected] [email protected][ mailto:[email protected] ] [email protected] [email protected][ mailto:[email protected] ] (1) This information can be provided by including a website address, a PDF attachment, or other information on where the text of the final measure/change to the measure/interpretative guidance can be obtained.

Products Covered: - Jabón, productos y preparaciones orgánicos tensoactivos, en barras, panes, trozos o piezas troqueladas o moldeadas, y papel, guata, fieltro y tela sin tejer, impregnados, recubiertos o revestidos de jabón o de detergentes: (HS code(s): 34011); Jabón en copos, en gránulos, en polvo, en pasta o en disolución acuosa (HS code(s): 340120); Preparaciones tensoactivas, preparaciones para lavar, incl. las preparaciones auxiliares de lavado, y preparaciones de limpieza, incl. que contengan jabón, acondicionadas para la venta al por menor (exc. agentes de superficie orgánicos, jabones y preparaciones orgánicas tensoactivas en barras, panes o trozos o en piezas troqueladas o moldeadas, así como preparaciones orgánicas tensoactivas para el lavado de la piel, líquidas o en crema) (HS code(s): 340220); Preparaciones tensoactivas, preparaciones para lavar, incl. las preparaciones auxiliares de lavado, y preparaciones de limpieza (exc. acondicionadas para la venta al por menor, así como agentes de superficie orgánicos; jabones y preparaciones orgánicas tensoactivas en barras, panes o trozos o en piezas troqueladas o moldeadas; productos y preparaciones tensoactivas para el lavado de la piel, líquidos o en crema) (HS code(s): 340290); (ICS code(s): 71.100.40)

Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification

Distribution date: 09 May 2023 | Final date for Comment: 08 July 2023

This Draft East African Standard prescribes the requirements, sampling and test methods for household fabric softeners.

Products Covered: SOAP, ORGANIC SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS, WASHING PREPARATIONS, LUBRICATING PREPARATIONS, ARTIFICIAL WAXES, PREPARED WAXES, POLISHING OR SCOURING PREPARATIONS, CANDLES AND SIMILAR ARTICLES, MODELLING PASTES, ‘DENTAL WAXES’ AND DENTAL PREPARATIONS WITH A BASIS OF PLASTER (HS code(s): 34); Surface active agents (ICS code(s): 71.100.40)

Regulation Type: Regular notification