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Revision of the Specifications and Standards for Foods

Official title

Revision of the Specifications and Standards for Foods, Food Additives, Etc. under the Food Sanitation Act (revision of agricultural chemical residue standards)

Japan notified this proposed SPS measure to the WTO on 30 October 2026.

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Products

Natural honey (HS: 04.09); Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers (HS: 07.01, 07.02, 07.03, 07.04, 07.05, 07.06, 07.07, 07.08, 07.09, 07.10 and 07.14); Edible fruit (HS: 08.07, 08.10 and 08.11); Mate and spices (HS: 09.03 and 09.10); Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, miscellaneous grains, see

HS codes
  • 04 · Dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
    • 0409 Natural honey.
All 21 codes
  • 07 · Vegetables and certain roots and tubers; edible
    • 0701 Potatoes, fresh or chilled
    • 0702 Tomatoes, fresh or chilled.
    • 0703 Onions, shallots, garlic, leeks and other alliaceous vegetables, fresh or chilled
    • 0704 Cabbages, cauliflowers, kohlrabi, kale and similar edible brassicas, fresh or chilled
    • 0705 Lettuce 'Lactuca sativa' and chicory 'Cichorium spp.', fresh or chilled
    • 0706 Carrots, turnips, salad beetroot, salsify, celeriac, radishes and similar edible roots, fresh or chilled
    • 0707 Cucumbers and gherkins, fresh or chilled.
    • 0708 Leguminous vegetables, shelled or unshelled, fresh or chilled
    • 0709 Other vegetables, fresh or chilled (excl. potatoes, tomatoes, alliaceous vegetables, edible brassicas, lettuce 'Lactuca sativa' and chicory 'Cichorium spp.'…
    • 0710 Vegetables, uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water, frozen
    • 0714 Roots and tubers of manioc, arrowroot, salep, Jerusalem artichokes, sweet potatoes and similar roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, fresh…
  • 08 · Fruit and nuts, edible; peel of citrus fruit or melons
    • 0807 Melons, incl. watermelons, and papaws 'papayas', fresh
    • 0810 Fresh strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, back, white or red currants, gooseberries and other edible fruits (excl. nuts, bananas, dates, figs…
    • 0811 Fruit and nuts, uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water, frozen, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter
  • 09 · Coffee, tea, mate and spices
    • 0903 Maté.
    • 0910 Ginger, saffron, turmeric 'curcuma', thyme, bay leaves, curry and other spices (excl. pepper of the genus Piper, fruit of the genus Capsicum or of the genus…
  • 12 · Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit, industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
    • 1201 Soya beans, whether or not broken
    • 1202 Groundnuts, whether or not shelled or broken (excl. roasted or otherwise cooked)
    • 1212 Locust beans, seaweeds and other algae, sugar beet and sugar cane, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground; fruit stones and kernels and other…
  • 22 · Beverages, spirits and vinegar
    • 2201 Waters, incl. natural or artificial mineral waters and aerated waters, not containing added sugar, other sweetening matter or flavoured; ice and snow
Notifying member
Japan
Status
Proposed measure, not in force yet
Objectives
  • Food safety
Area
SPS: Food safety, animal and plant healthSanitary and phytosanitary measures
Notification type
Regular notification
Document symbol
G/SPS/N/JPN/1436
Keywords
Food safety, Human health, Maximum residue limits (MRLs)

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Not set in the notification
Proposed adoption
To be determined.
Proposed entry into force
These proposed standards will take effect after a certain period.

How to comment

The notification sets no comment deadline. To comment, contact your country's WTO SPS enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/SPS/N/JPN/1436; it forwards comments to Japan.

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What the notification says

Proposal of maximum residue limits (MRLs) for the following agricultural chemical Pesticide: 1,3-Dichloropropene

Sources

Expodite writes its summary from the official record. The notification and the documents it notifies are on the WTO's own websites.

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