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Agency responsible:
Dirección General de Salud Ambiental e Inocuidad Alimentaria, DIGESA (Directorate-General of Environmental Health and Food
Safety)
Las
Amapolas # 350 Urb. San Eugenio, Lince, Lima
Tel.: (+51 1) 631 4430
Email: evillanueva@minsa.gob.pe
Name
and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:
Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo, MINCETUR (Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism)
Calle
Uno Oeste Nº 50 - Urb. Corpac - Lima 27 - Peru
Tel.:
(+51 1) 513 6100, Ext. 1223 or 1239
Email: otc@mincetur.gob.pe
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Products covered (HS or
CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be
provided in addition, where applicable): 10.01
Wheat and meslin.
1101.00.00.00 Wheat or meslin flour.
11.04 Cereal grains otherwise worked (for example, hulled, rolled,
flaked, pearled, sliced or kibbled), except rice of heading 10.06; germ of
cereals, whole, rolled, flaked or ground.
19.01 Malt extract; food preparations of flour, groats, meal,
starch or malt extract, not containing cocoa or containing less than 40% by
weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere
specified or included; food preparations of goods of headings 04.01 to 04.04,
not containing cocoa or containing less than 5% by weight of cocoa calculated
on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included.
19.02 Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other
substances) or otherwise prepared, such as spaghetti, macaroni, noodles,
lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli, cannelloni; couscous, whether or not prepared.
19.04 Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of
cereals or cereal products (for example, corn flakes); cereals (other than
maize (corn)) in grain form or in the form of flakes or other worked grains
(except flour, groats and meal), pre-cooked, or otherwise prepared, not
elsewhere specified or included.
19.05 Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares,
whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind
suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar
products.
21.06 Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included.
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Objective and rationale,
including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: Protection of the health of people with coeliac disease or a
gluten intolerance or allergy. The lack of information available on processed
foods, and the absence of mandatory good manufacturing practices to reduce
the risk of cross-contamination with products that contain gluten, means that
this vulnerable population is at risk of developing coeliac disease, which is
recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as chronic and
debilitating.
The only effective treatment for this disease is a gluten-free
diet that allows the intestinal villi to regenerate. It is therefore right
that the competent authorities introduce regulations and controls, so that
manufacturers and importers report, under clear rules, on the gluten-free
foods they manufacture and import, and inspections are carried out to ensure
compliance with the conditions laid down for declaring foods to be truly
gluten free.
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Relevant documents:
1._
Ley N° 26842, Ley General de Salud y sus modificatorias.
2._
Ley N° 31881, Ley que promueve brindar información de los alimentos que
no contienen gluten.
3._
Decreto Legislativo N° 1062, Ley de Inocuidad de los alimentos.
4._
Texto Único Ordenado de la Ley N° 27444, Ley del Procedimiento
Administrativo General, aprobado por Decreto Supremo N° 004-2019-JUS-
Principio de razonabilidad.
5._
CODEX STAN 118-1979, as
amended in 2015, Standard for Foods for Special Dietary Use for Persons
Intolerant to Gluten.
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