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ORGANIZATION   
G/SPS/N/TPKM/265 
30 August 2012  
 (12-4670) 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
NOTIFICATION OF EMERGENCY MEASURES 
 
1. Notifying Member:  THE SEPARATE CUSTOMS TERRITORY OF TAIWAN, 
PENGHU, KINMEN AND MATSU  
If applicable, name of local government involved:     
2. Agency responsible:  Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health (DOH), 
Executive Yuan 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item numbe r(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO;  ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where 
applicable):  Bulk foods 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: 
[X] All trading partners   
[ ] Specific regions or countries:    
5. Title of the notified document:  Draft Regulations Governing the Labeling of Bulk Foods 
Language(s):  English  Number of pages:  2 
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2012/sps/TPKM/12_3370_00_e.pdf  
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2012/sps/TPKM/12_3370_00_x.pdf  
6. Description of content:   
(1) Food retailers with company registration or business registration:  
(a) Bulk foods such as materials ot her than beef or edible cattle offals must be labelled 
with the product name and the country of or igin or letters with the same meaning. 
(b) Bulk foods such as materials containing beef or edible cattle offals  must be labelled 
with the product name, the country of origin and the country of origin of the beef or 
edible cattle offals or letters with the sa me meaning;  if the contents include a 
single item of raw beef or edible cattle offa ls, it is permitted to label just one option 
i.e. either country of origin of the food or country of origin of the beef or edible cattle offals;  in case of foods for baking (roasting) and ready-to-eat foods on-site, the food need only be labelled with the count ry of origin of the beef or edible cattle 
offals. 
(2) Food retailers without company registration or  business registration:  Bulk foods such 
as materials containing beef or edible cattle offals must be labelled with the country of 
origin of the beef or edible cattle offa ls or letters with the same meaning. 
7. Objective and rationale:  [X] food safety, [ ] animal health, [ ] plant protection, 
[ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [ ] protect territory from other damage from pests.    G/SPS/N/TPKM/265 
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  8. Nature of the urgent problem(s) and reason for urgent action:  Under the premise of 
food safety, to provide consumers with clearly identified information, require the retailers 
to label country of origin of beef and cattle ed ible offals or letters with the same meaning.  
Some consumers, who wish to select veterinary  drug-free beef or cattle edible offals, could 
use the information in the food label to identify items of their choice. 
9. Is there a relevant international standard ?  If so, identify the standard:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g. title or serial number of Codex standard 
or related text)   
[ ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number)   
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number)   
[X] None Does this proposed regulation conform to  the relevant international standard? 
 [ ] Yes   [ ] No 
 If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:    
10. Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:   "Draft 
Regulations Governing the Labelling of  Bulk Foods" (DOH Food No. 1011301978, 
15 August 2012) is available in English from the National Notification Authority, National 
Enquiry Point and Department of Health.  Th e standard will be published in the Official 
Government Gazette when adopted.  The full text may be downloaded from the following 
website:  
http://www.fda.gov.tw/eng/index.aspx  and http://www.doh.gov.tw/EN2006/index_EN.aspx   
11. Date of entry into force ( dd/mm/yy )/period of application (as applicable):  
Mid-September 2012       
[ ] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Agency or authority designated to handl e comments:  [ ] National Notification 
Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if 
available) of other body:   
Food and Drug Administration  
Department of Health No.161-2, Kunyang St, Nangang District, Taipei City 115-61, Taiwan  
Tel:  +(886 2) 2787 8000 ext. 7343 
Fax:  +(886 2) 2653 1062 E-mail:  xenia26@fda.gov.tw 
13. Texts available from:  [X] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry 
Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:   
Food and Drug Administration 
Department of Health No.161-2, Kunyang St, Nangang District, Taipei City 115-61, Taiwan  Tel:  +(886 2) 2787 8000 ext. 7343 Fax:  +(886 2) 2653 1062 E-mail:  xenia26@fda.gov.tw