Provisional Translation
| OTO No. | 540 | Classification | MHW-234 |
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| Date of Acceptance | December 6, 1995 | Ministry/Agency Receiving Complaint | Economic Planning Agency |
| Responsible Ministries | Ministry of Health and Welfare | Related Laws | Food Sanitation Law |
| Complainant | Domestic firm | Exporting Countries | Indonesia |
| Subject | Expediting import procedures for rice wine | ||
| Details of Measures | Under the Food Sanitation Law, parties wishing to sell or use foodstuffs, etc. for commercial purposes are required to present an import declaration to the head of the quarantine office, and that additives used must be listed in the declaration. In the import declaration for Indonesian rice wine submitted in November 1995, although the import declaration and the test results (from a previous import of a similar product in 1993) listed tar pigment as an artificial coloring agent, the self-test results for the product in question contradicted the above two documents as tar pigment was not listed. Since the product was colored red, the manufacturer was queried. The manufacturer reported the results and when they were advised to file the appropriate declarations if necessary, they did so and import procedures were completed in accordance with the Food Sanitation Law. In this complaint, the complainant was advised that since the manufacturing process for the product in question had been changed, the authorities had not realized that the product did not contain additives and the import declaration had been prepared based on test results for a different company, the product was stopped to ascertain that it conformed to the Food Sanitation Law, and that there had been no problems as far as documentation was concerned. |
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| Classification of Processing | D | Directions | II-a |
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