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Food – Israel

Official title

Public Health Protection (Food) Notice (Application of Changes to the Annex to the European Union Directives) (Regulation 2073/2005 - Concerning Microbiological Criteria for Foodstuff), 5785-2025

Israel notified this proposed SPS measure to the WTO on 20 October 2025. The comment period closed on 19 December 2025.

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Products

Microbiological criteria for foodstuff, except for raw meat, raw milk, honey, and fresh eggs in their shells; General methods of tests and analysis for food products

Notifying member
Israel
Status
Proposed measure, may since have been adoptedNotified as a draft on 20 October 2025. Check WTO ePing or Israel for its current status.
Objectives
  • Food safety
Area
SPS: Food safety, animal and plant healthSanitary and phytosanitary measures
Notification type
Regular notification
Document symbol
G/SPS/N/ISR/11
ICS classification
  • 67.040 Food products in general
  • 67.050 General methods of tests and analysis for food products
Keywords
Food safety, Human health

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Closed on 19 December 2025
Proposed adoption
Proposed entry into force

How to comment

The comment period closed on 19 December 2025. You can still raise concerns about the measure with your country's WTO SPS enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/SPS/N/ISR/11; it can take them up with Israel.

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What the notification says

The EU Regulation No. 2073/2005 of 15 November 2005 regarding microbiological criteria for foodstuff was adopted in Israel in the framework of the Economic Plan Law (Legislative Amendments for the Implementation of Economic Policy for the Budget Years 2021 and 2022), 5782-2021 (notified in G/TBT/N/ISR/1218 too), using an indirect amendment to the Protection of Public Health (Food) Law, 5776-2015, (Amendment No. 3), and appears in Item 3 of Appendix II A to the Law. In addition, the EU Regulation 2073/2005 was re-adopted as part of Amendment No. 10 to the Food Law (notified in G/TBT/N/ISR/1332/Rev.1 too), which was published on 4 August 2024. The version that was adopted and published on the Food Service's website was the version in force in the European legislation as of 8 March 2020. The EU Regulation 2073/2005 has not been fully applied in Israel yet. The exclusions and changes were listed in columns A and C of Item 3 of the Second Appendix A, in addition to the exceptions as stated in section 3a(a1) to (a5) of the Law. The main change introduced in this proposed Amendment is in Annex I to Regulation 2073/2005, as published by the European Union on 20 November 2024, in (EU) 2024/2895. This change regards the application of a strict food safety criteria, from production to the end of shelf life, in ready-to-eat foods other than those intended for infants and for special medical purposes capable of supporting the development of Listeria monocytogenes bacteria, 'Listeria…

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