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WTO notification · TBT

MalaysiaProposed measure, open for comments

Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included

Official title

Amendments to Regulation 391 and deletion of Table I and Table II of the Twenty-Third Schedule of the Food Regulations 1985 [P.U. (A) 437/1985]

Malaysia notified this proposed TBT measure to the WTO on 23 September 2026. Comments are open until 22 November 2026.

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At a glance

Products

All food (ICS:67), Food preparations for use by infants or young children

HS codes
  • 21 · Miscellaneous edible preparations
    • 210690 Food preparations, n.e.s.
Notifying member
Malaysia
Status
Proposed measure, open for comments
Objectives
  • Consumer information, labelling
  • Protection of human health or safety
Area
TBT: Technical product rulesTechnical barriers to trade
Notification type
Regular notification
Document symbol
G/TBT/N/MYS/137
Keywords
Food standards

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Open until 22 November 2026
Proposed adoption
To be determined
Proposed entry into force
Six months from the date of publication

How to comment

Comments on a notification go from government to government. If this measure affects your exports, send your comments to your country's WTO TBT enquiry point before 22 November 2026, quoting the document symbol G/TBT/N/MYS/137 and how the measure affects your products. Your enquiry point forwards them to Malaysia.

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What the notification says

The proposed amendments to Regulation 391 of the Food Regulations 1985 [P.U.(A) 437/1985] are as follows: subregulations 391(3) to 391(6) are to amend the term 'processed cereal based food' to 'processed cereal-based food'; subregulations 391(8)(a) and 391(8)(b) are to amend the amount of added carbohydrates from sucrose, fructose, glucose, glucose syrup or honey to products mentioned in subregulations 391(1)(c)(i), 391(1)(c)(ii) and 391(1)(c)(iv); subregulation 391(9) is to substitute the word 'lipid' with 'fat'; subregulation 391(14) is to delete provisions relating to food additives and to insert provisions on flavourings in processed cereal-based foods for infants and young children; subregulation 391(15) is to delete provision on food conditioner in processed cereal-based foods for infants and young children; subregulation 391(17)(b)(i) is to amend nutrition labelling in processed cereal-based foods for infants and young children; subregulation 391(21) is to delete provision on contaminants in processed cereal-based foods for infants and young children; Table I of the Twenty-Third Schedule is to delete the list of permitted food additives and its maximum level in processed cereal-based foods for infants and young children; and; Table II of the Twenty-Third Schedule is to delete the list of permitted food additives in processed cereal-based foods for infants and young children.

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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