. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/TPKM/126 
29 August 2012  
 (12-4644) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Notifying Member:  THE SEPARATE CUSTOMS TERRITORY OF TAIWAN, PENGHU, 
KINMEN AND MATSU 
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:   
Food and Drug Administration, De partment of Health (DOH)  
No.161-2, Kunyang St, Nangang Distri ct, Taipei City 115-61, Taiwan  
Tel.:  +(886 2) 27878000 ext 7343 Fax:  +(886 2) 26531062 E-mail:  xenia26@fda.gov.tw  
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 different from above :    
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [   ], 2.10.1 [X], 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):  Bulk foods. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Regulations 
Governing the Labelling of Bulk Foods (2 pages in English).     
6. Description of content:   
1. Food retailers with company regi stration or busines s registration:  
a) Bulk foods such as material other than beef  or edible cattle offal must be labelled 
with product name and country of origin  or letters with the same meaning;  
b) Bulk foods such as material for beef or edible cattle offal must be labelled with 
product name, country of origin and country of origin of the beef or edible cattle offal 
or letters with the same meani ng; if the contents include a single item of raw beef or 
edible cattle offal, it is perm itted to label just one option i. e. either country of origin 
of the food or country of origin  of the beef or edible cattle offal; in case of foods for 
baking (roasting) and dealing with ready- to-eat foods on-site, the food is only 
labelled with country of origin of the beef or edible cattle offal. 
2. Food retailers without company registration or  business registration: Bulk foods such as 
material for beef or edible cattle offal must be labelled with country of origin of the beef or 
edible cattle offal or letter s with the same meaning. G/TBT/N/TPKM/126 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Consumer protection. Under the premise of food safety, to pr ovide consumers with clearly 
identified information, regulate the retailers need to label count ry of origin of the beef and 
cattle edible offal or letters with the same mean ing. Some consumers, who wish to select the 
veterinary drug-free beef or cattle edible offa l, could use the information in the food label to 
select items by their own choice. 
8. Relevant documents:   Act Governing Food Sanitation   
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   } To be determined. 
10. Final date for comments:  22 August 2012 
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addres ses, if available of the other body:    
WTO/TBT Enquiry Point  
The Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection  
Ministry of Economic Affairs 
4 Chinan Road, Section 1, Taipei, 100, Taiwan Telephone:  (886-2) 2343-1801 Fax:  (886-2) 2343-1804 E-mail:  tbtenq@bsmi.gov.tw  
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2012/tbt/TPKM/12_3399_00_e.pdf  
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2012/tbt/TPKM/12_3399_00_x.pdf  
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2012/tbt/TPKM/12_3399_01_x.pdf