. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/PER/36 
22 June 2011 
 (11-3077) 
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:   PERU 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:   Ministerio de Salud  (Ministry of Health) 
Name and address (including telephone  and fax numbers, 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:   Ministerio de 
Comercio Exterior y Turismo, MINCETUR  (Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism) 
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 app licable, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in  addition, where applicable):  
Chapter 04: Dairy produce;  edible products of  animal origin not elsewhere specified or 
included. 
Chapter 15: Animal or vegetable fats and o ils and their cleavage products;  prepared 
edible fats;  animal or vegetable waxes. 
Chapter 16: Preparations of meat. Chapter 17: Sugar and sugar confectionery. Chapter 18: Cocoa and cocoa preparations. 
Chapter 19: Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk;  pastrycooks' products. 
Chapter 20: Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants. 
Chapter 21: Miscellaneous edible preparations. Chapter 33: Subheading 3302.10:  Of a kind used in the food or drink industries. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Proyecto de Norma 
sanitaria para la consignación de grasas  trans en el etiquetado de alimentos 
industrializados (Draft Health Standard governing the disclosure of trans fat information on 
processed food product labels) 
6. Description of content:   The aim of the notified draft Health Standard is to establish the 
requirements governing the disclosure of trans fat information on the labels of processed food products marketed and consumed in Peru. G/TBT/N/PER/36 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Prevention of practices liable to mislead consumers. 
8. Relevant documents:   Codex Alimentarius, Codex Guidelines on Nutrition Labelling, 
CAC/GL 2-1985, Rev.1-1993. 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:   To be determined 
Six months after publication in the Official 
Journal El Peruano  
10. Final date for comments:   14 September 2011 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry  point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and website addresses,  if available of the other body: 
Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo - MINCETUR 
Calle Uno Oeste Nº 50 - Urb.  Corpac - Lima 27 - Perú Tel.: +(51-1) 513-6100, Ext. 8040 
Fax: +(51-1) 513-6100, Ext. 8002 
E-mail: otc@mincetur.gob.pe  
Websites: http://www.comunidadandina.org/SIRT  
 http://www.mincetur.gob.pe/reglamentostecnicos  
 http://www.digesa.sld.pe/norma_consulta/index.asp  
 
Text available at:  http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2011/tbt/PER/11_1924_00_s.pdf