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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/COL/41
23 March 2001
(01-1429)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original: Spanish
NOTIFICATION OF EMERGENCY MEASURES
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  COLOMBIA
If applicable, name of local government involved:           
2. Agency responsible:  Colombian Agricultural Institute (ICA)
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where
applicable). Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or
practicable:  Meat meal, blood meal, bone meal, meat  and bone meal and mammalian offal
meal in animal feed and mineral salt preparations
4. Title and number of pages of the notified document:  Resolution 00347 of 6 March 2001,
"banning the use of meat meal, blood-meal, bone-meal (steamed/calcined), meat and bone
meal and mammalian offal meal in foodstuffs for ruminants" (3 pages)
5. Description of content:  Measures to prevent cross-contamination, implementation of the
Code of Good Practice on the Manufacture of Foodstuffs, import restrictions,  labelling on
meat meal, blood meal, bone meal, meat and bone meal and mammalian offal meal
packaging.
6. Objective and rationale:  [  X ] food safety,  [  X ] animal health,  [     ] plant protection,
[ X ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [     ] protect territory from
other damage from pests           
7. Nature of the urgent problem(s):  Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) to date has
not been registered in Colombia and is therefore classified as an exotic disease in thenational territory.
8. An international standard, guideline or recommendation does not exist [     ].
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give its appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:  The World Health Organization (WHO), the
Office International des Epizooties (OIE) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations (FAO) recommend a ban on the us e of meat meal, blood meal, bone meal,
meat and bone meal and mammalian offal meal in foodstuffs for ruminants within thestrategies for the prevention of the transmission of BSE.
9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  Decree Nos. 2141 of
1992, 2645 of 1993 and 1840 of 1994 Resolution 447 of the Andean Community
(available in Spanish)
10. Date of entry into force/period of application (as applicable):  ImmediateG/SPS/N/COL/41
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11. Texts available from/and agency or authority designated to handle comments:
[ X ] National notification authority, [  X ] National enquiry point or address, fax
number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:
National Enquiry Point:
Ministerio de Desarrollo Económico
Dirección de Comercio y Promoción de la Competencia
Carrera 13 No. 28 – 01, piso 7°
Santafé de Bogotá, D.C. Colombia
Tel:  (571) 350 5500 Ext. 1700
Fax:  (571) 350 9564
E-mail:  normalizacion01@mindesa.gov.co
Other body:
Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario
Subgerencia de Prevención y Control
Calle 37 No. 8 – 23
Santafé de Bogotá, D.C. ColombiaTel:  (571) 232 4692
Fax:  (571) 232 4695
E-mail:  subprev@impsat.net.co