G/TBT/N/CHL/496  
22 August 2019  
(19-5401) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  Spanish  
 
  NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.  
 
1. Notifying Member : CHILE 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible : Ministerio de Salud, MINSAL  - Subsecretaría de Salud Pública 
(Ministry of Health - Undersecretariat for Public Health)  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regardi ng the notification shall be indicated if different from above:  
Subsecretaría de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales, SUBREI  - Ministerio de 
Relaciones Exteriores de Chile (Undersecretariat  for International Economic Relations, 
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile)  
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) : Sports 
foods and food supplements  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Consulta pública 
sobre Proyecto de Modi ficación de los siguientes títulos del Reglamento Sanitario de los 
Alimentos (RSA) : título preliminar ; II de los alimentos ; XVII de las bebidas analcohólicas, 
jugos de frutas y hortalizas, y aguas envasadas ; XXIX de suplementos alimentarios y de 
los alimen tos para deportistas . Consulta pública de las siguientes Resoluciones :  
"Establece Directrices para la Declaración de Propiedades de Función de Nutrientes en 
Suplementos Alimenticios"  
"Establece Propiedades Nutricionales Autorizadas en Suplementos Aliment icios"  
"Establece Directrices Nutricionales sobre Suplementos Alimentarios y Alimentos 
Suplementados y sus Contenidos en Vitaminas, Minerales y otras Substancias"   
(Public consultation on draft amendments to the following sections of the Food Health 
Regulations (RSA) : the introductory section ; Section II on foods ; Section XVII on non -
alcoholic beverages, fruit and vegetable juices and packaged waters ; and Section XXIX on 
food supplements and sports foods . Public consultation on the following resolutio ns: 
"Guidelines on nutrient function claims for dietary supplements", "Authorized nutrition 
claims for dietary supplements" and "Nutritional guidelines on food supplements and 
fortified foods and their content in vitamins, minerals and other substances")  
(48 pages, in Spanish ; 2 pages, in Spanish ; 5 pages, in Spanish ; 5 pages, in Spanish ; 4 
pages, in Spanish)  G/TBT/N/CHL/496  
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  6. Description of content : The purpose of the proposal is to update the articles of the Food 
Health Regulations (RSA) on "sports foods" and "food sup plements" and align them with 
the Codex Alimentarius, in connection with government policies on nutrition and food in 
Chile.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Protection of human health or safety.  
8. Relevant documents:  
- CXG 55 -2005 Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplements  
- Reglamento Sanitario de los Alimentos (RSA), Decreto Supremo N° 977/96, del 
Ministerio de Salud  
- CAC/GL 10 -1979 Advisory Lists of Nutrient Compounds for Use in Foods for Special 
Dietary Uses intended for Infants and Young Children  
- CAC/GL 23 -1997 Guidelines for Use of Nutrition and Health Claims  
- Other references contained in the proposed document.  
9. Proposed date of adoption : - 
Proposed date of entry into force : - 
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:  
Subsecretaría de Relaciones Econ ómicas Internacionales  - Ministerio de Relaciones 
Exteriores  de Chile  (Undersecretariat for International Economic Relations, Ministry of 
Foreign Affairs of Chile)  
Teatinos 180, piso 11  
Tel.: (+56)-2- 2827 5250  
Fax: (+56)-2- 2380 9494  
Email: Tbt_Chile@direcon.gob.cl  
http://web.minsal.cl/consultas -publicas -vigentes/  
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