National legislation

The purpose of this Regulation is to create environmental safety, food safety and safety of food for genetic engineering products (PRG), and utilization of PRG in the fields of agriculture, fishery, forestry, industry, etc. The Regulation consists of 10 Chapters divided into 37 articles: General provisions...

This Regulation lays down provisions on functional food supervision. Functional food shall be proceeded-food containing one functional component or more not dangerous or beneficial to human health. The text lists the activities for the supervision of functional food including: stipulation of standards and requirements for...

The Decree provides regulations and technical requirements on drinking-water depots. The Decree consists of 15 articles divided into 10 Chapters. The main objective of the Decree is to guarantee the quality of drinking water produced by drinking-water depots. This Decree also contains detailed technical requirements divided...

The Regulation applies to the territory of the Special Capital Province of Jakarta and deals with the requirements in terms of safety, hygiene and quality of agricultural commodities (rice, fruits, fresh vegetables, their processing, packaging, labelling, storing and transporting of aforesaid commodities. ...

The Indonesian Shellfish Sanitation System provides for the safety and quality of shellfish produced or imported in the country, the protection of the areas where they are coltivated from the presence of polluting agents, the control over freshwater pollution, the certification of origin and health profile...

The Decree provides for the addition of iron, zinc,B1 and B2 vitamin and folic acid to foodstuff in order to supplement its nutritional values. Wheat floor shall be the foodstuff of election for its widespread use and the application of the Indonesian National Standard shall be...

The present regulation amends the previous one, banning potassium bromate by the list of food additives whose use is allowed within certain limits. ...

Article 1 defines "food" and "processed food". Article 2 defines general requirements regarding labelling of packaged food that is produced in or imported into Indonesia. Article 4 specifies general contents of labels. Article 5 to 11 further place requirements of a general nature on food labelling....

This Act aims at strengthening the protection of consumers by creating a system of "legal certainty and transparency", by promoting consciousness, capability, and independence of consumers, by prescribing rules for business agents (defined in article 1 and by raising the quality of goods and services (art....

A Commission of Thresholds of Microbiological and Residual Contamination in Animal based Foodstuffs is here established. It shall gather information on microbial and residual contents of biological materials, chemical materials, heavy metals, antibiotics, hormones and other animal drugs in foodstuffs, advise, through the Director of Animal...

This Regulation, consisting of nine Chapters and 3 Annexes, establishes the list of food additives. It specifies the requirements to be met in order to use food additives, whose use is allowed within certain limits. In particular, it lists authorised and prohibited food additives (II and...