WORLD TRADE G/TBT/Notif.98.245
19May1998
ORGANIZATION
(98-2039)
Committee onTechnical Barriers toTrade
NOTIFICATION
Thefollowing notification isbeing circulated inaccordance withArticle 10.6.
1. Member toAgreement notifying: SINGAPORE
Ifapplicable, name oflocalgovernment involved (Articles 3.2and7.2):
2. Agency responsible: Food Control Department, Ministry oftheEnvironment
Agency orauthority designed tohandle comments regarding thenotification shall be
indicated ifdifferent from above: International Environment andPolicy Department,
Ministry oftheEnvironment
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): Food
5. Title, number ofpages andlanguage(s) ofthenotified document: Food (Amendment)
Regulations 1998 (4pages, inEnglish)
6. Description ofcontent: TheMinistry proposes toallow theuseofthefollowing food
additives:
- Dimethyl polysilosane (anti-foaming agent);
- estergum(stabilizer);
- polyglycerol polyricinoleate (emulsifier);
- nucleotides (ininfant formula);
- gellan gum(stabilizer);
- aspartame (general purpose foodadditive);
- chymosin (general purpose foodadditive);
- oligofructose from chicory root(general purpose foodadditive);
- lactitol (general purpose foodadditive).
TheMinistry proposes todisallow theuseofpotassium bromate asaflour
treatment agent.
TheMinistry alsoproposes torequire thewarning statement "WARNING -
THIS PRODUCT MAY NOT BESUITABLE FOR ASTHMA AND ALLERGY
SUFFERERS." onlabels ofroyal jellyandfoodcontaining royal jelly.
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7. Objective andrationale, including thenature ofurgent problems where applicable:
Consumer health andsafety
8. Relevant documents: Singapore Food Regulations (1990 edition)
9. Proposed dateofadoption:
Proposed dateofentry intoforce:July1998
Singapore willproceed toimplement theproposed measures after45daysifno
comments orrequests forextension ofthetime-limit have been received from other
Members within thattime.
10. Final dateforcomments: 5July1998
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X]oraddress, e-mail andtelefax number
ofthebody: