WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/DOM/43 
23 February 2010 
 (10-1005) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   Spanish 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
1. Notifying Member:  DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
 
If applicable, name of local government involved:  
2. Agency responsible:  Dirección General de Normas y Sistemas de Calidad a través de su 
Departamento de Normalización (Directorate-General of Standards and Quality Systems, 
DIGENOR, Department of Standardization)  
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):  Processed cereal-based foods for infants and young children 
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:   Anteproyecto de Norma NORDOM 67:35-004.  Alimentos 
y Nutrición para Regímenes Especiales y/o Dietéticos.  Alimentos Elaborados a Base de 
Cereales para Lactantes y Niños Pequeños .  Requisitos y Especificaciones (Proposed Draft 
Dominican Standard (NORDOM) No. 67:35-004:  Nutrition and foods for special dietary 
uses.  Processed cereal-based foods for infa nts and young children.  Requirements and 
specifications) Language:  Spanish Number of pages:  18 
Text available at http://members.wto.o rg/crnattachments/2010/sps/DOM/10_0771_00_s.pdf
6. Description of content:  The notified proposed draft Standa rd establishes the requirements 
and specifications for process ed cereal-based foods for infants and young children with 
regard to essential composition, quality factors,  consistency, particle size, purity, permitted 
food additives, packaging and labelling and in line with good manufacturing practices 
(GMPs). 
This Standard covers processed cereal-based  foods intended for feeding infants as a 
complementary food generally from the age of six months onwards, taking into account 
infants' individual nutritional requirements, and for feeding young children as part of a 
progressively diversified diet. 
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/DOM/43 
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  8. Is there a relevant international stan dard?  If so, identify the standard:  
[X] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g. title or serial number of Codex standard 
or related text) CODEX STAN 074-1981, Rev. 1-2006:  Codex Standard for 
Processed Cereal-Based Foods for Infants and Young Children ;  CAC/RCP 
21-1979:  Recommended International Code of Hygienic Practice for Foods for 
Infants and Children ;  CAC/GL 10-1979:  Advisory Lists of Mineral Salts and 
Vitamin Compounds for Use in Foods for Infants and Children ;  CODEX STAN 
1-1985 (Rev. 1-1991):  General Standard for the Labelling of Prepackaged Foods;  
Codex Alimentarius, Volume I (Rev. of 1995 and 2006);  CODEX STAN 192- 
1995:  Codex General Standard for Food Additives ;  CAC/RCP 1-1969:  General 
Principles of Food Hygiene ;  CAC/GL 21-1997:  Principles for the Establishment 
and Application of Microbiological Criteria for Foods . 
[ ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number)  
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number)  
[ ] None 
Does this proposed regulation conform to  the relevant international standard? 
 [X] Yes [ ] No 
 If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:  
9. Other relevant documents and language (s) in which these are available:  Unknown 
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) :  9 April 2010 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) :  Unknown 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  [X] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) :  9 September 2010 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure 
12. Final date for comments:  [X] Sixty days  from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) :  24 April 2010 
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [X] National Notification 
Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point.   Address, fax number and e-mail address 
(if available) of other body:  
Ms Ruth Montes de Oca S. 
Directora de la Oficina de Tratados Comerciales Agrícolas (OTCA) 
Ministerio de Agricultura Secretaría Ejecutiva del Comité Nacional para la Aplicación de las Medidas Sanitarias y Fitosanitarias (CNMSF) Punto de Contacto / Servicio Nacional de Información MSF ante la OMC 
Calle 13 No. 4A, esq. Espiral, Urb. Fernández. Apartado Postal No. 10129 
Santo Domingo, D.N., República Dominicana Tel: +(809) 227-6188;  +(809) 227-3164;  +(809) 547-1575 Fax: +(809) 540-5943 E-mail: rmontesdeoca@otcasea.gob.do;  rd.cnmsf.snni@gmail.com;  info@cnmsf.gob.do 
Website: http://www.otcasea.gob.do/
 and http://www.cnmsf.gob.do/   G/SPS/N/DOM/43 
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  13. Texts available from:  [X] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry 
Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:  
Dirección General de Normas y Sistemas de Calidad (DIGENOR) 
Departamento de Normalización Avenida México, esq. Leopoldo Navarro 
Edificio Juan Pablo Duarte (El Huacal), Piso 11 
Santo Domingo, D.N., República Dominicana Tel.: +(809) 686-2205 Fax: +(809) 221-5613;  +(809) 688-3843 E-mail: direcciongeneral@digenor .gob.do and digenor@gmail.com 
Website: http://www.digenor.gob.do/