G/TBT/N/SLV/180
27 January 2015
(15-0561)  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:   EL SALVADOR 
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  Organismo Salvadoreño de Reglamentación Técnica, OSARTEC  
(Salvadorian Technical Regulation Agency)  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and email and website 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority design ated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:    
Ministerio de Economía  (Ministry of the Economy) 
Dirección de Administración de Tratados Comerciales  (Directorate of Trade Treaty 
Administration) Alameda Juan Pablo II y Calle Guadalupe, Plan Maestro 
San Salvador, El Salvador 
Tel.:  (503) 2590-5788   Fax:  (503) 2590-5789 
Email:  datco@minec.gob.sv  / milla@minec.gob.sv   
Website:  http://www.minec.gob.sv  
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 provid ed in addition, where applicable):  
International Classification fo r Standards (ICS) code 67.040 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:   RTS 
67.06.01:13, Fortificación de alimentos. Especificaciones. (Azúcar, sal, harina de maíz 
nixtamalizado y pastas alimenticias) (Salvadorian Technical Standard (RTS) No. 
67.06.01:13: Food fortification. Specifications (Sugar, salt, nixtamalized maize (corn) 
flour and pasta)) (19 pages, in Spanish).    
6. Description of content:   The notified Salvadorian Technical Standard establishes the 
physical, chemical and microbiological characteristics of and the nutritional specifications 
for the following fortified foods: sugar, salt for human and animal consumption, nixtamalized maize (corn) flour and pasta.    
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:   Food safety   
8. Relevant documents:     
• Manual para el monitoreo externo de la fortificación de azúcar con vitamina A  
(Manual for external monitoring of sugar fortification with vitamin A), Second Edition, 
2011, Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP), United Nations 
Children's Fund (UNICEF) and Food and Nutrition Foundation of Central America and 
Panama (FANCAP);  G/TBT/N/SLV/180 
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  • Manual para el monitoreo externo de la fortificación de la sal con yodo en operaciones 
a pequeña escala (Auditoria Técnica e inspección)  (Manual for external monitoring of 
iodized salt in small-scale operations (Technical auditing and inspection)), Second 
Edition, 2011, INCAP, UNICEF and FANCAP; 
• Salvadoran Mandatory Standard ( Norma Salvadoreña Obligatoria , NSO) No. 
67.20.01:03, Azucares. Especificaciones  (Sugar. Specifications); 
• Salvadoran Mandatory Standard (NSO) No. 67.03.03:09, Pastas alimenticias. 
Especificaciones  (Pasta. Specifications); 
• US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) PART 139: "Macaroni and noodle products". 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   To be determined To be determined 
10. Final date for comments:   60 days as from the date of 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 Economía 
Dirección de Administración de Tratados Comerciales 
Alameda Juan Pablo II y Calle Guadalupe 
Plan Maestro, San Salvador, El Salvador Tel.: (503) 2590-5788 
Fax: (503) 2590-5789 
Email: datco@minec.gob.sv ; jmilla@minec.gob.sv  
Website: http://www.minec.gob.sv  
 
Organismo Salvadoreño de Reglamentación Técnica (OSARTEC) 
1ª Calle Poniente y Final 41 Av. Norte, N° 18, Colonia Flor Blanca  San Salvador, El Salvador  
Tel.: (503) 2590-5323; (503) 2590-5335 
Email: consultasreglamento@osartec.gob.sv  
Website: http://www.osartec.gob.sv