WORLD TRADE G/TBT/Notif.97.703
31October 1997
ORGANIZATION
(97-4779)
Committee onTechnical Barriers toTrade
NOTIFICATION
Thefollowing notification isbeing circulated inaccordance withArticle 10.6.
1. Member toAgreement notifying: BOLIVIA
Ifapplicable, name oflocalgovernment involved (Articles 3.2and7.2):
2. Agency responsible: National Secretariat ofHealth
Agency orauthority designated tohandle comments regarding thenotification canbe
indicated ifdifferent from above:
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [],2.10.1 [X],5.6.2 [],5.7.1 [],other:
4. Products covered (HSorCCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICS numbers may beprovided inaddition, where applicable): NANDINA
heading 1101.00.00 wheat flour
5. Title, number ofpages andlanguage(s) ofthenotified document: Fortification ofWheat
Flour withIronforHuman Consumption (5pages, available inSpanish)
6. Description ofcontent: Provisions applicable towheat flour used forhuman
consumption inBolivia, whether domestic, imported ordonated; itmust befortified
withiron, folicacidandvitamin Bcomplex.
7. Objective andrationale: Therequirement tofortify wheat flour forhuman consumption
isbased ontheNational Secretariat ofHealth 'sriskassessment demonstrating the
magnitude andsignificance ofnutritional anaemia inBolivia: more than50percentof
pregnant women and35percentofschool children suffer from anaemia. Accordingly,
forthelegitimate purpose ofprotecting human health, ithasbeendecided thatthemost
efficient andenduring waytocombat andprevent irondeficiency istofortify staple
food, andwheat flour isconsumed inpredictable quantities bythepopulation ofBolivia.
8. Relevant documents: Publication: Integrated Nutritional Anaemia Prevention and
Control Programme, National Secretariat ofHealth, LaPaz,July1997, PAHO/WHO -
WFP -UNICEF -OMNI/USAID
9. Proposed dateofadoption: 27November 1996
Proposed dateofentry intoforce: 27June1997
10. Final dateforcomments: None indicated
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X]oraddress andtelefax number ofother
body: