WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/DOM/42 
23 February 2010 
 (10-1003) 
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):  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 67:35-003.  Nutrición 
y Alimentos para Regímenes Especiales y/o Dietéticos.  Alimentos Envasados para 
Lactantes y Niños.  Requisitos y Especificaciones (Proposed Draft Dominican Standard 
(NORDOM) No. 67:35-003:  Nutrition and foods for special dietary uses.  Canned baby 
foods.  Requirements and specifications) Language:  Spanish Number of pages:  11 
Text available at http://members.wto.o rg/crnattachments/2010/sps/DOM/10_0770_00_s.pdf
6. Description of content:  The notified proposed draft Standa rd establishes the requirements 
to be met by canned baby foods with regard  to essential composition and quality factors, 
consistency, particle size , purity, permitted food additives, packaging, labelling and 
conformity with good manuf acturing practices (GMPs). 
This Standard covers baby foods intended primarily for use during the normal infant's 
weaning period and also for the progressive ad aptation of infants and children to ordinary 
food.  They may be either in ready-to-eat fo rm or in dry form requiring reconstitution with 
water only. 
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/42 
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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 73-1981:  Codex Standard for Canned Baby Foods ;  
Volume I of the Codex Alimentarius:  Principle relating to the carry-over of food 
additives into foods ;  Volume 13 of the Codex Alimentarius:  Method of analysis 
for foods for infants and children ;  CODEX STAN 1-1985 (Rev. 1-1991), 
Volume I of the Codex Alimentarius:  General Standard for the Labelling of 
Prepackaged Foods;  General Standard fo r the Labelling of Prepackaged Foods,  
Rev. 1995, Codex Alimentarius;  CAC/GL 10-1979:  Advisory Lists of Mineral 
Salts and Vitamin Compounds for Use in Foods for Infants and Children ;  
CAC/RCP 21-1979:  Recommended International Code of Hygienic Practice for 
Foods for Infants and Children . 
[ ] 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 March 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/42 
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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/