G/TBT/N/IND/141  
14 February 2020  
(20-1190) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  INDIA   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  Department of chemicals and Petrochemicals, Government of India  
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 shall be indicated if differ ent from above:   
Mr. Samir Kumar Biswas  
Joint Secretary  
Room No -341, A Wing  
Department of chemicals and Petrochemicals  
Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi  
Telephone No. +91 -11-23383428  
Fax: +91 -11-23073682  
Email: samir.bi swas@gov.in  
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):  Sodium 
Formaldehyde Sulphoxylate (HS Code 2831 1020)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Sodium 
Formaldehyde Sulphoxylate (Quality Control) Order, 2020 (1 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  Sodium Formaldehyd e sulfoxylate  is a power full reducing agent. 
It also finds extensive applications in textile industry for printing and stripping dyed 
textiles prior to redying and discharge printing. It is  used in bleaching sugar cane juice for 
making jaggery, as a redox s catalyst in emulsion of polymers and as a stabilizer/anti -
oxidant in Pharmaceutical drug formulations.  It also has a niche  use as a water 
conditioner, reducing the amount of chlorine. The standard of the product stipulates 
minimum purity and maximum perm issible content of heavy metals like lead, iron, copper 
and zinc etc. The locally manufactured or imported Sodium Formaldehyde Sulphoxylate 
shall conform to the Indian standard (IS 4505: 2015) and shall bear the standard mark 
under license from the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). The use of standard mark is 
governed by the provisions of Bureau of Indian Standards Act 1986 and the Rules and 
Regulations made there under. Bureau of Indian Standards shall be the certifying and 
enforcing authority.  
7. Objecti ve and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  The standard of Sodium Sulphoxylate, is being made mandatory to protect 
the human health and overall eco system  G/TBT/N/IND/141  
 
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  8. Relevant documents:   
• Quality Control Order for making Indian Standard of Sodium Sulphoxylate 
specification (IS 4505: 2015), as mandatory is attached.  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  Yet to be decided  
Proposed date of entry into force:  Six months from date of adoption  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from the date of upload on WTO website.  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
Mr. Samir Kumar Biswas  
Joint Secretary  
Room No-341 , A Wing  
Department of chemicals and Petrochemicals  
Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi  
Telephone No. +91-11-23383428  
Fax: +91 -11-23073682  
Email: samir.biswas@gov.in  
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