Regulatory Updates

Distribution date: 11 March 2010 | Final date for Comment: 10 May 2010

This draft technical regulation concerns the physical, chemical and microbiological requirements, as well as the sampling, packaging, transportation, storage and labelling that must be set for fresh and dried royal jelly.

Products Covered: ICS Code: 67.180.10

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 10 March 2010 | Final date for Comment: 09 May 2010

The notified text lays down the phytosanitary requirements for the importation into Costa Rica of miscellaneous goods. This Technical Document covers the following: textiles; timber and related products; fresh flowers; dried flowers; sawn timber and logs; wooden pallets; inert substrates; foliar and soil samples for physico-chemical analyses, etc.

Products Covered: Miscellaneous goods

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 09 March 2010 | Final date for Comment: 08 May 2010

Revision of the Mandatory Standard SI 225. This draft standard revision is an implementation of both the International Standard ISO 4928 - Third edition: 2006-07-15 and the American Standard SAE J1601: REV. July 97 and allows compliance with either of them. The major modification of this revision is that it does not include tests for chemical components and for stretching strength and lengthening.

Products Covered: Motor vehicles spare parts (ICS: 43.040.40 and 83.140.50; HS: 4016.93).

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 03 March 2010 | Final date for Comment: 02 May 2010

Because gas cylinders for outdoor cookers contain flammable and pressurized gas, the Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection intends to require that gas cylinders for outdoor cookers be subject to safety requirements to protect consumers’ rights and interests. The inspection standard CNS 15230 “Non-refillable metallic gas canisters for portable liquefied petroleum gas appliances” was adopted by the Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection (BSMI) on 17 January 2009 and is planned to apply to all such products starting 1 July 2010.

Products Covered: Gas cylinders for outdoor cookers. (CCCN 2711.13.00.00-1C for liquefied butane fuel, CCCN 2711.19.10.00-3C for petroleum gases fuel in the liquefied state [mixed liquefied propane and butane], CCCN 2901.10.20.00-0C for butane fuel)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 03 March 2010 | Final date for Comment: 02 May 2010

Revision of the Mandatory Standard SI 299. This draft standard revision changes paragraph 3.10 dealing with classification of gold alloys and paragraph 6.1.2 dealing with striking the gold with importer and manufacturer marks.

Products Covered: Gold (ICS: 39.060; HS: 2843.30, 7108.11-20).

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 23 February 2010 | Final date for Comment: 24 April 2010

The notified proposed draft Standard establishes the organoleptic, physico-chemical, microbiological, packaging, labelling and hygiene requirements, the permitted food additives and the maximum contaminant levels for the food product known as margarine, intended for both direct human consumption and industrial use.

Products Covered: Milk and milk products

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 23 February 2010 | Final date for Comment: 24 April 2010

The notified proposed draft Standard lays down the physico-chemical, microbiological, organoleptic, compositional, packing and packaging, and sanitary requirements to be met by processed ham.

Products Covered: Meat and meat products

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 23 February 2010 | Final date for Comment: 24 April 2010

The notified proposed draft Standard lays down the physico-chemical, microbiological, organoleptic, compositional, labelling, packing and packaging requirements to be met by uncanned sausages.

Products Covered: Meat and meat products

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 16 February 2010 | Final date for Comment: 29 March 2010

Specifies requirements for five grades of light-duty, aromatic disinfectant fluids containing quaternary ammonium compounds (QACs) as their principal antimicrobial agents.

Products Covered: Aromatic disinfectant liquid (HS: 380840 ; ICS: 11.080.20)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 10 February 2010 | Final date for Comment: 05 April 2010

This NPRM proposes to amend FMVSS No. 116, Motor Vehicle Brake Fluids, so that brake fluids would be tested with ethylene, propylene, and diene terpolymer (EPDM) rubber, as this type of rubber is increasingly being used in brake fluid seals. This NPRM also updates references to standards issued by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and the American Society for Materials and Testing (ASTM) (no substantive changes to the standard would be made by these updates), and corrects minor errors in the standard.

Products Covered: Brake fluids (HS: 3819, ICS: 75.100, 75.120)

Regulation Type: Regular notification