WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/PER/26 
27 May 2010 
 (10-2939) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   Spanish 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   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 and 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 applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICS numbers may be provided in  addition, where applicable):  
• Chapter 04:  Dairy produce;  edible pr oducts of animal origin, not elsewhere 
specified or included 
• Chapter 05: 
 - Heading 0504:  Guts, bladders and stomachs of animals, whole and pieces 
thereof, salted, in brine, dried or smoked 
• Chapter 07:  Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers 
• Chapter 09:  Coffee, tea, maté and spices 
• Chapter 11:  Products of the milling industry;  malt;  starches;  inulin;  wheat gluten 
• Chapter 13:  Lac;  gums, resins a nd other vegetable saps and extracts 
• Chapter 15:  Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products;  
prepared edible fats;  animal or vegetable waxes 
• Chapter 16:  Preparations of meat 
• Chapter 17:  Sugars and sugar confectionery 
• Chapter 18:  Cocoa and cocoa preparations 
• Chapter 19:  Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk;  pastry-cooks' products 
• Chapter 20:  Preparations of vegetables,  fruit, nuts or other parts of plants 
• Chapter 21:  Miscellaneous edible preparations G/TBT/N/PER/26 
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   • Chapter 22:  Beverages, spirits and vinegar 
• Chapter 25: 
 - Heading 2501:  Salt (including ta ble salt and denatured salt) and pure 
sodium chloride, whether or not in aqueous solution or containing added 
anti-caking or free-flowing agents;  sea water 
• Chapter 28: 
 - Sub-heading 2836.30:  Sodium hydrogencarbonate (sodium bicarbonate) 
• Chapter 29: 
 - Sub-heading 2916.19:  Sorbic acid and its salts  - Sub-heading 2916.31:  Sodium benzoate  - Sub-heading 2918.14:  Citric acid  - Sub-heading 2929.90:  Sodium cyclamate  - Sub-heading 2934.99:  Acesulfame potassium 
• Chapter 33: 
 - Sub-heading 3302.10:  Of a kind used in the food or drink industries 
• Chapter 35:  Albuminoidal substances;  modified starches;  glues;  enzymes 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Proyecto de 
Reglamento sobre Vigilancia y Control Sanitario de Alimentos (Draft Regulation on 
sanitary surveillance and control of food) (49 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:  The notified Regulation establishes the following: 
(a) General hygiene standards, together wi th the sanitary conditions and requirements 
governing the manufacture, storage, retail packaging, processing, transport and 
sale, as well as the importation and exportation, of food and food additives for human consumption in order to facilita te their traceability and guarantee food 
safety by means of an integrated system; 
(b) the conditions, requirements and procedures for obtaining, amending, suspending 
or cancelling food health registration; 
(c) the conditions, requirements and pro cedures for the sanitary certification of 
processed foods and food additives and the authorization of food establishments; 
(d) standards relating to the sanitary surv eillance of activities and services related to 
the manufacture, retail packaging, storage, transport, processing and sale of food; 
(e) sanitary safety measures, as well as offences and the applicable penalties. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: 
Protection of human life and health and prevention of practices liable to mislead consumers. 
8. Relevant documents:   Codex Alimentarius Commission, Recommended International 
Code of Practice:  General Principles of Food Hygiene  (CAC/RCP 1-1969)  G/TBT/N/PER/26 
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  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:  22 August 2010 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry  point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, E-mail and Website addresses,  if available, of other body: 
Websites: http://www.comunidadandina.org/SIRT  
 http://www.mincetur.gob.pe/reglamentostecnicos  
 http://www.digesa.minsa.gob.pe/  
 
Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo - MINCETUR 
Calle Uno Oeste N° 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 
 
Text available online at: 
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2010/tbt/per/10_2231_00_s.pdf