. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/BHR/139 
13 August 2009  
 (09-3882) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  BAHRAIN
  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  Standards & Metrology Directorate (BSMD) 
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 :   
Ministry of  Industry and Commerce 
P.O.Box 5479, Kingdom of Bahrain 
Tel: +973 17574880 Fax: +973 17530730 E-mail: bsmd@commerce.gov.bh. Website: http://www.moic.gov.bh
 
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 applicab le, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Flavoured Laban 
(ICS:  67.100) 
5. Title, number of pages and langua ge(s) of the notified document:  Flavoured Laban 
(Arabic, 11 pages; English, 8 pages).     
6. Description of content:  This draft technical regulation specifies the requirements stated in 
the Gulf standard (GSO 1375) “Flavoured Laban” under clause 7 and 8 (labelling and 
packaging) as mandatory requireme nts. It specifies the following:
1. The product containers shall be clean, non- harmful, water-tight, air tight, tightly sealed, 
and prevent the product from any chan ge in the product characteristics.
2. The product shall be packed in such a wa y as to prevent any external contamination. 
It also describes label requirements such as : 
 - Type of product according to fat ratio (whole, partially skimmed, and skimmed).
- If milk other than cow milk was used in processing the product or a part from it, the 
animal or animals of the milk source shall be mentioned.- In case of added flavoured substance to the pr oduct, the name of product shall be "laban 
with (kind of flavour used) flavour", and in case of added fruit or its products without using any flavoured substance the name of product sh all be "laban with (kind of fruit used)".
- Nutrition  information  shall be declared fo r each 100 ml or by serving including  energy 
by calorie , protein, fat, sugars by g, calcium  and sodium by mg, and quantity of vitamins  
- The date Production and expiry dates shall be declared. G/TBT/N/BHR/139 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the natu re of urgent problems where applicable:  
To maintain consumer protection and food safety.  
8. Relevant documents:    
- GSO 1375 “Flavoured Laban” 
- Codex stand 206 "General Standard for Use of Dairy Terms"  - Codex stand. 192/1995, rev 2007 "General Standard for Food Additives" 
- Codex stand 243/2007 "Standard for Fermented Milks "  
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   }  To be determined. 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from the notification date 
11. Text available from: National enquiry point [ X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body: