G/TBT/N/PER/132  
5 July 2021 
(21-5324) Page: 1/3 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.  
 
1. Notifying Member : PERU 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:  
Ministerio de Salud  (Ministry of Health)  
Dirección General de Salud Ambiental e Inocuidad Alimentaria , DIGESA (Directorate -
General of Environmental Health and Food Safety)  
Calle Las Amapolas N° 350  
Urb. San Eugenio, Lince - Lima 14, Peru  
Tel.: (+51-1) 631 -440 
Email: normalim@minsa.gob.pe  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shal l be indicated if different from above:  
Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo , MINCETUR (Ministry of Foreign Trade and 
Tourism)  
Calle Uno Oeste Nº 50 - Urb. Corpac - Lima 27 - Peru 
Tel.: (+51-1) 513 -6100, Ext. 1223 and 1239  
Email: otc@mincetur.gob.pe  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ], 5.7.1 [ ], other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading . ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable) : 
1602.10.00.00 Homogenised preparations ; 1901.10 Preparations suitable for infants or 
young children, put up for retail sale ; 2005.10.00.00 Homogenised vegetables ; 
2007.10.00.00 Homogenised preparations ; 21.04.20.00. 00 Homogenised composite food 
preparations ; 2106.90.80.00 Formula, other than milk formula, for infants up to 12 
months old  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Proyecto de 
Norma Sanitaria que regula el bisfenol A en los bar nices y revestimientos empleados en 
envases para alimentos destinados a lactantes y niños pequeños  (Draft Health Standard 
regulating bisphenol A in varnishes and coatings used in packaging for foods for infants 
and young children) (5 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified draft Health Standard regulating bisphenol A in 
varnishes and coatings used in packaging for foods for infants and young children provides 
that packaging or packaging material that comes into contact with foods for infants and 
young children (infant formula, follow -up or follow -on formula, processed cereal -based 
foods or milk -based beverages and similar products specifically intended for young 
children) shall not contain varnishes or coatings containing bisphenol A ( BPA). Compliance 
by suppliers that process and import packaging for foods for infants and young children, G/TBT/N/PER/132  
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  as well as by manufacturers or importers of processed foods for infants and young 
children, is mandatory.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the n ature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Protection of human health or safety  
8. Relevant documents:  
• Ley Nº 26842, Ley General de Salud , and amendments thereto.  
• Decreto Legislativo N° 1062, que aprueba la Ley de Inocuidad de los Alimentos . 
• Decreto Legislativo N° 1161, Ley de Organización y Funciones del Ministerio de 
Salud , and amendment thereto.  
• Decreto Supremo N° 008 -2017-SA, Reglamento de Organización y Funciones del 
Ministerio de Salud , and amendments thereto.  
• Decreto Supremo N° 007 -98-SA, Reglamento sobre Vigilancia y Control Sanitario 
de Alimentos y Bebidas , and amendments thereto.  
• Decreto Supremo N° 034 -2008-AG, que aprueba el Reglamento del Decreto 
Legislativo N° 1062, Ley de Inocuidad de los Alimentos . 
• FAO/WHO, 1981 . Codex Alimentari us: Standard for Processed Cereal -Based 
Foods for Infants and Young Children . CXS 74 -1981 (revised in 2006 ; amended 
in 2017 and 2019).  
• FAO/WHO, 1981 . Codex Alimentarius : Standard for Canned Baby Foods . CODEX 
STAN 73 -1981* (amended in 1983, 1985, 1987, 1989  and 2017). *Previously 
CAC/RS 73 -1976.  
• Report of the ad hoc Expert Meeting to assess the safety of BPA held by the Food 
and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health 
Organization (WHO), with the support of the European Food Safety Authority, 
Health Canada, the United States National Institute of Environmental Health 
Sciences and the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) . Available 
at: 
https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/44624/97892141564274_eng
.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y  
9. Proposed date of adoption 180 days from publication  
Proposed date of entry into force : Six months fro m the date of adoption  
10. Final date for comments : 60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from : National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo (MINCETUR)  
Calle Uno Oeste Nº 50 - Urb. Corpac - Lima 27 - Peru 
Tel.: (+51-1) 513 -6100, Ext. 1223 and 1239  
Email: otc@mincetur.gob.pe  
Ministerio de Salud  
Dirección General de Salud Ambiental e Inocuidad Alimentaria (DIGESA)  
Calle Las Amapolas N° 350  
Urb. San Eugenio, Lince - Lima 14, Peru  
Tel.: (+51-1) 631 -440 
Email: normalim@minsa.gob.pe  G/TBT/N/PER/132  
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