. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/DOM/167 
11 July 2012 
 (12-3725) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original: Spanish 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Notifying Member:   DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:  
Dirección General de Normas y Sistemas de Calidad , DIGENOR (Directorate-General of 
Standards and Quality Systems) Edificio de Oficinas Gubernamentale s "Juan Pablo Duarte", piso 11 
Avenida México esquina Leopoldo Navarro 
Santo Domingo, República Dominicana Tel.: (+1) 809 686-2205 Fax: (+1) 809 688-3843 E-mail: digenor@digenor.com  
Website: http://www.digenor.gob.do  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and e-mail 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 [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):   International 
Classification for Standards (ICS) code 67.040 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   NORDOM 
67:32-022, Recomendaciones de higiene para alim entos de baja acidez y alimentos de baja 
acidez acidificados (Dominican Standard (NORDOM) No. 67:32-022:  Hygiene 
recommendations for low-acid and acidified low-acid canned foods) (9 pages, in Spanish).  
6. Description of content:   The notified Standard cove rs the following:  Purpose;  
Definitions;  Establishment hygiene require ments;  Personnel hygiene requirements;  
Hygienic processing requirements;  Design and construction of facilities;  Quality 
assurance;  Storage and transportation of finish ed product;  Laboratory control procedures;  
and End-product specifications. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
The notified Standard establishes requirem ents for the canning and heat processing of 
low-acid and acidified low-acid foods, packed in  hermetically sealed containers.  It does 
not apply to foods in hermetically sealed  containers which require refrigeration. G/TBT/N/DOM/167 
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  8. Relevant documents: 
1. Codex Alimentarius Commission/Reco mmended International Code of Practice 
(CAC/RCP) No. 23-1979, Rev. 2-1993:  Code of Hygienic Practice for Low and 
Acidified Low Acid Canned Foods; 
2. French Standards Organization (AFNOR) - National Centre for Studies and 
Recommendations on Nutrition and Food (CNERNA), 1982.  Expertise des conserves 
appertisées:  Aspects techniques et microbiologiques  (Expert evaluation of canned 
food:  Technical and microbiological aspects), France; 
3. Buckle, K.A., 1985.  Diagnosis of spo ilage in canned foods and related products, 
University of New South Wales, Australia; 
4. Campden Food Preservation Research Association (CFPRA), 1987.  Examination of 
suspect cans.  Technical Manual No. 18, United Kingdom; 
5. Empey, W.A., The internal pressure test for food cans, Commonwealth Scientific and 
Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO),  Food Preserv.  Q. 4:8-13;  1944; 
6. Hersom, A.C. and Hulland, E.D., Canned Foods:  Thermal processing and 
microbiology, 7
th ed., 1980, Churchill Livingstone, Scotland; 
7. National Canners Association (NCA), 1972.  Construction and use of a vacuum 
micro-leak detector for metal and glass containers.  National Food Processors 
Association, United States of America; 
8. Speck, M.  L., 1984.  Compendium of methods for the microbiological examination of 
foods, American Public Health Association; 
9. Thorpe, R.H. and Baker, P.M., 1984.  Visual can defects.  Campden Food 
Preservation Research Association, United Kingdom; 
10. US Food and Drug Administration.  BAM 1984, Bacteriological Analytical Manual 
(6th edition).  Association of Official Analytical Chemists. 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  }To be determined 
10. Final date for comments:   20 August 2012 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry  point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and e-mail and website addresses, if available, of other body: 
Dirección General de Normas y Sistemas de Calidad (DIGENOR) 
Edificio de Oficinas Gubernamentale s "Juan Pablo Duarte", piso 11 
Avenida México esquina Leopoldo Navarro 
Santo Domingo, República Dominicana Tel.: (+1) 809 686-2205 Fax: (+1) 809 688-3843 E-mail: cendocdigenor@gmail.com  
Website: http://www.digenor.gob.do