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ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/CHL/331 
21 September 2010 
 (10-4763) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   Spanish 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
1. Notifying Member:  CHILE
 
If applicable, name of local government involved:  
2. Agency responsible:  Ministerio de Salud, Departamento de Alimentos y Nutrición 
(Ministry of Health, Food and Nutrition Department) 
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):  Foods for medicinal use.  
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:  Propuesta de modificación del Título XVII de los 
alimentos para regímenes especiales del Regl amento Sanitario de los Alimentos (977/96) 
para integrar categoría de alimentos de uso medicinal (Proposed amendment to 
Section XVII ("foods for special dietary uses") of the Food Health Regulations 
(Supreme Decree No. 977/96), with a view to including the category of foods for 
medicinal use)  Language:  Spanish Number of pages:  8 
6. Description of content:  The proposed amendment to the Food Health Regulations seeks 
to include in these Regulations the category of  foods for medical or medicinal use, since 
such products are not covered by current domestic  legislation.  Foods for special medicinal 
purposes must be formulated on the basis of valid medical and nutritional principles;  this requires the existence of scientific proof that the use of such products helps to fulfil the 
special needs of the people for whom they are intended.  
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.  
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)  
[ ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number)  
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number)  G/SPS/N/CHL/331 
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  [ ] 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:  Reglamento 
Sanitario de los Alimentos (977/96) (Food Health Regulations (Supreme 
Decree No. 977/96)) (available in Spanish) 
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) :  Upon publication in the Official Journal. 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) :  60 days from the date of circulation of the 
notification. 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  [ ] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) :  Upon publication in the Official Journal. 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure 
12. Final date for comments:  [X] Sixty days  from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) :  20 November 2010 
Agency or authority designated to handl e comments:  [ ] National Notification 
Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point.   Address, fax number and e-mail address 
(if available) of other body:  E-mail:  sps.chile@sag.gob.cl 
13. Texts available from:  [ ] National Notification  Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point.  
Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:  
E-mail:  sps.chile@sag.gob.cl