Provisional Translation
| OTO No. | 383 | Classification | MHW-186 |
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| Date of Acceptance | September 26, 1989 | Ministry/Agency Receiving Complaint | Economic Planning Agency |
| Responsible Ministries | Ministry of Health and Welfare | Related Laws | Food Sanitation Law |
| Complainant | Domestic firm | Exporting Countries | Sweden |
| Subject | Concerning the import of tableware, 1. Extension of the period of inspection validity under the Food Sanitation Law. 2. Simplification of inspection of inspection procedures and lowering of inspection fees for products. 3. Exemption from the inspection through acceptance of data from the exporting country. |
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| Details of Measures | 1. On extending the period of certification validity under the Food Sanitation Law, it was replied that it is difficult to extend the period of certification validity for safety and health reasons because there are numerous violations with synthetic resin tableware. It should be noted that inspections and guidance by the authorities on tableware manufacturing facilities and voluntary inspections by the manufacturers' organization are conducted once a year in Japan. 2. It was also replied on simplifying the inspection procedures and reducing the costs for small-lot products that tableware and like products are inspected with a view to ensuring safety and sanitation and that it is impossible to simplify the inspection procedures simply because something is being imported in small lots. However, regardless of the size of the lot, it may be possible in some cases to simplify these procedures in some ways for certain items in prior consultation with the quarantine station. At the same time, every effort is being made to increase inspection equipments in quarantine stations and to reduce inspection costs by extending capability for free administrative inspections. 3. It was also replied on accepting manufacturing data from the exporting country that provisions are already in place to accept inspection results of official inspection agencies in the exporting countries, and that there are currently 30 Royal Swedish inspection agencies registered by Ministry of Health and Welfare as foreign official inspection agencies, and that all of the inspection results of these inspection agencies, are accepted and that inspection is waived for products for which such inspection results are available. |
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| Classification of Processing | 1. D 2. A 3. Ca |
Directions | 1. II-a 2. II-a 3. II-b |
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