. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/TPKM/96 
18 January 2011  
 (11-0284) 
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:  THE SEPARATE CUSTOMS TERRITORY OF 
TAIWAN, PENGHU, KINMEN AND MATSU   
If applicable, name of local govern ment involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2)  
2. Agency responsible:  Food and Drug Administration 
Department of Health, Executive Yuan No. 161-2, Kunyang Road, Nangang Dist rict, Taipei City 115-61, Taiwan 
Tel.:  (886 2) 27878000 ext.7361 
Fax:  (886 2) 26531062 E-mail:  mailto:chao@fda.gov.tw
 
 
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 :    
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):  Plastic Food Utensils, 
Containers, and Packages 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Regulations 
Governing the Labeling of Plastic Food Utensils, Containers and Packages (2 pages, English). 
6. Description of content:   
I. The regulations governing the "labeling of Pl astic Food Utensils, Containers, and Packages" 
are as follows:  
(1) Product name. (2) Polymer material name. 
(3) Heat-resisting temperature. 
(4) Name, telephone number and address of th e company; in the case of import, name, 
telephone number and address of th e responsible domestic company. 
(5) Place of origin (country). (6) Net weight, capacity, quantity or measur ement, etc. The labeling on net weight, 
capacity or measurement shall be in legal metr ology units; and if necessary, it should also be 
specified in other units. 
(7) Manufacture date. For produc t with validity, it shall be specified with the effective 
date or validity period. (8) Precautions for use or warning.     G/TBT/N/TPKM/96 
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II. The labeling modes are as follows: (1) Plastic bottles (cups), feeding bottles, and lunch boxes (including crispers) that are 
used repeatedly: 1. The polymer material name, heat-resisting te mperature and other matters shall be printed, 
stamped or embossed on the product’s  body of the smallest selling unit. 
2. The product name, company name, telephone number and address, manufacture date, place 
of origin (country), net weight, capacity, qua ntity, measurement and other matters shall be 
printed, stamped or labeled on the packaging of the smallest selling unit or on the product’s body. 
(2) The product labeling on disposable plasti c food utensils, containers and packages 
shall be printed, stamped, embo ssed or labeled on packaging of the smallest selling unit or on 
the product’s body. (3) With regard to the aforesaid label pr inting and stamping methods, they shall be 
principally non-color fading and non-falling off. 
(4) No falsehood is allowed in the labeling contents. 
(5) If a product is composed of more than two kinds of polymer materials, it shall be 
openly labeled respectively. (6) For date labeling, it shall be marked in  a way that is customarily decipherable of 
year/month/date or year/month. For indication in  year/month, it is presumed that the product 
is made at the end of that particular month. 
(7) The length and width of the characters mark ed on the labels shall not be less than two 
millimeters. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Consumer protection  
8. Relevant documents:   Act Governing Food Sanitation   
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:      To be determined  
  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from date of notification 
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:    
WTO/TBT Enquiry Point  
The Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection  Ministry of Economic Affairs 4 Chinan Road, Section 1, Taipei, 100, Taiwan 
Tel.:  (886-2) 2343-1801 
Fax:  (886-2) 2343-1804 E-mail:  mailto:tbtenq@bsmi.gov.tw
 
Also available here:  http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2011/tbt/TPKM/11_0070_00_e.pdf