WORLD TRADE G/TBT/Notif.97.390
20August 1997
ORGANIZATION
(97-3427)
Committee onTechnical Barriers toTrade
NOTIFICATION
Thefollowing notification isbeing circulated inaccordance withArticle 10.6.
1. Member toAgreement notifying: SWITZERLAND
Ifapplicable, name oflocalgovernment involved (Articles 3.2and7.2):
2. Agency responsible: Federal Office ofPublic Health
Agency orauthority designated tohandle comments regarding thenotification canbe
indicated ifdifferent from above:
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X],2.10.1 [],5.6.2 [],5.7.1 [],other:
4. Products covered (HSorCCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICSnumbers maybeprovided inaddition, where applicable):
Foodstuffs, cosmetics, plastic materials
5. Title, number ofpages andlanguage(s) ofthenotified document: Modification of
Several Ordinances Based ontheFood Lawof9October 1992
6. Description ofcontent: Themodifications comprise:
- Newlimitandtolerance values formicrobiological organisms;
- new limit andtolerance values forforeign substances inandon
foodstuffs;
- adaption oftheOrdinances onCosmetics andtheOrdinance onPlastic
Materials andObjects totheactual EC-regulations;
- anewregulation ontheaddition ofiodid oriodat tosalt.
Themodifications arescheduled tocome intoforce mid-October 1997.
7. Objective andrationale: Adaptation ofthetechnical regulations tothestateofscience
(hygiene, foreign substances infoodstuffs), improvement ofthehealth-protection
(possibility toaddabigger quantity ofiodid/iodat tosalt), abolition ofbarriers totrade
(additives, cosmetics).
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8. Relevant documents: Thefollowing Ordinances willbemodified:
- Ordinance onAdditives Permissible inFoodstuffs;
- Ordinance onForeign Substances andComponents ofFoodstuffs;
- Ordinance onHygienic andMicrobiological Requirements ofFoodstuffs,
Commodities, Facilities, Installations andPersonnel;
- Ordinance onMushrooms;
- Nutrition Value Ordinance;
- Ordinance onPlastic Materials andObjects;
- Ordinance onCosmetics.
9. Proposed dateofadoption:
Proposed dateofentry intoforce:Mid-October 1997
10. Final dateforcomments: 1October 1997
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X]oraddress andtelefax number ofother
body: