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Feb. 17, 2011Vietnam: alimentos de soya, envasados al vacío y listos para el consumo deben ser registrados por el Departamento de salud
| World Trade
Organization |
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| G/SPS/N/TPKM/218
11 February 2011 |
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| (11-0685) | |
| Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures | Original: English |
NOTIFICATION OF EMERGENCY MEASURES
| 1. | Notifying Member: THE SEPARATE CUSTOMS TERRITORY OF TAIWAN, PENGHU, KINMEN AND MATSU
If applicable, name of local government involved: |
| 2. | Agency responsible: Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health |
| 3. | Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where applicable): Vacuum-packed ready-to-eat soybean food |
| 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: The Draft Registration Requirement for Vacuum-packed Ready-to-Eat Soybean Food Language(s): English Number of pages: 2
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2011/sps/TPKM/11_0303_00_e.pdf http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2011/sps/TPKM/11_0303_00_x.pdf |
| 6. | Description of content: Vacuum-packed ready-to-eat soybean food shall be registered by the DOH. |
| 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. |
| 8. | Nature of the urgent problem(s) and reason for urgent action: Botulism is a serious paralytic illness caused by a neurotoxin that is produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. These rod-shaped organisms grow best in low oxygen environment such as vacuum-packed foods. There were eight outbreaks of botulism in Chinese Taipei this year, and one person dead of botulism. Most of the cases are correlated with vacuum-packed foods. To prevent botulism, the emergency action was taken to legislate for related food proprietors of vacuum-packed foods. |
| 9. | Is there a relevant international standard? 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: |
| 10. | Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available: :”The draft Registration Requirement for Vacuum-packed Ready-to-eat Soybean Food” (DOH Food No.0991303086, 26 January 2011) is available in English from the National Notification Authority, National Enquiry Point, and Department of Health. The standards will be published in the Official Government Gazette when adopted. The full text may be downloaded from the following website: http://www.fda.gov.tw/eng/people_laws_list.aspx |
| 11. | Date of entry into force (dd/mm/yy)/period of application (as applicable): To be determined. [ ] Trade facilitating measure |
| 12. | Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [ ] National Notification Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:
Food and Drug Administration Department of Health No.161-2, Kunyang St, Nangang District, Taipei City 115-61, Taiwan Tel: +(886 2) 2787 8000 ext 7376 Fax: +(886 2) 2653 1062 E-mail: hosana@fda.gov.tw |
| 13. | Texts available from: [X] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:
Food and Drug Administration Department of Health No.161-2, Kunyang St, Nangang District, Taipei City 115-61, Taiwan Tel: +(886 2) 2787 8000 ext 7376 Fax: +(886 2) 2653 1062 E-mail: hosana@fda.gov.tw |