WTO notification · TBT
MalaysiaProposed measure, may since have been adopted
Official title
Amendments to the Twelfth A Schedule of the Food Regulations 1985 [P.U. (A) 437/1985]
Malaysia notified this proposed TBT measure to the WTO on 6 October 2025. The comment period closed on 5 December 2025.
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All food (ICS: 67)
The comment period closed on 5 December 2025. You can still raise concerns about the measure with your country's WTO TBT enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/TBT/N/MYS/128; it can take them up with Malaysia.
Find your country's enquiry point on WTO ePing (opens in a new tab)The proposed amendments to the Twelfth A Schedule of the Food Regulations 1985 [P.U.(A) 437/1985] are as follows: by inserting after the name of probiotic culture L. casei Shirota with its new, globally accepted designation, L. paracasei Shirota / Lacticaseibacillus paracasei Shirota, to be in line with recent taxonomic changes; by inserting a new probiotic strain, Lactobacillus plantarum 299v / Lactiplantibacillus plantarum 299v, under the group of Lactobacillus sp.
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