. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/BRA/699 
11 January 2011  
 (11-0177) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
1. Notifying Member:  BRAZIL
 
If applicable, name of local government involved:    
2. Agency responsible:  ANVISA - Brazilian Health Surveillance Agency 
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):  Food packaging 
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:  Draft Resolution on Food packaging  Language:  
Portuguese  Number of pages:  42   
6. Description of content:  This Technical Regulation establishes the positive list of 
monomers, other starting substances and polyme rs allowed for the manufacture of plastic 
packaging and equipment  that get into contact with food.  It establishes the use restrictions, 
the limits of composition and specific migrations .  It also applies to polymer coatings in 
direct contact with food, applied on substrates of other material. 
This draft Technical Regulation revokes Anne x II and Annex VIII of Anvisa's Resolution 
RDC  n. 105, 19 May 1999, Resolution n. 124, 19 June 2001 and Resolution RDC n. 178, 
17 October 2001. 
It will be granted a period of 180 (one hundred  and eighty) days from the date of entry into 
force of this Resolution for companies to promote the necessary adjustments to comply 
with this technical regulation. 
This technical regulation has been harmoni zed in Mercosur - Draft Resolution GMC 
nº 02/2010 (SGT nº 3 - Technical Regulations /Food Comission/Mercosur).  It is an update 
of Resolutions GMC nº 47/93, 86/93, 13/97, 14/97, 24/04. 
This Draft Resolution was also notified to the TBT Committee. 
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/BRA/699 
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  8. Is there a relevant international stan dard?  If so, identify the standard:  
[ ] 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)    
[X] None Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?   
 [ ] 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:  Brazilian 
Official Journal (Diário Oficial da União), 22 December 2010; Section 1.  Draft Resolution 
(Consulta Pública) number 114, 22 Decemb er 2010, issued by Brazilian Sanitary 
Surveillance Agency - ANVISA.  When adopted, it will be published at the  Brazilian Official Journal (available in Portuguese) 
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) :  April 2011 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) :  April 2011 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  [ ] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) :  July 2011 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Final date for comments:  [ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the notification 
and/or (dd/mm/yy) :  22 February 2011 
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:   
Brazilian Health Surveillance Agency - ANVISA 
SIA, Trecho 5, Área Especial 57 
CEP: 71.205-050  
Brasilia - DF/Brazil Tel.:  +(55) 61 3462 5402 Fax:  +(55) 61 3462 5414 E-mail:  rel@anvisa.gov.br 
13. Texts available from:  [ ] National Notification  Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point.  
Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:    
The full text can be directly accessed through the following link:  
"http://portal.anvisa.gov.br/wps/wcm/co nnect/1ca0ac0045235d2fb9acbfb34d2284eb/CP+N
%C2%BA+114+GGALI.pdf?MOD=AJPERES "