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Ref : EIC 414/2

7 March 2013

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 199/2013

Chile : Products Exempted from Allergen Labeling Requirements

The Chilean government issued an Exempt Resolution No. 817/2012 on 26 December 2012 to exempt the following items from the allergen labeling requirements as required under Exempt Resolution No. 427/2010. The exemption will be effective from 18 October 2013.

• wheat-based glucose syrups (including dextrose), wheat-based maltodextrin, and barley-based glucose syrups;
• fish gelatine used as a carrier for vitamins and flavours;
• refined soybean oil and fat, natural mixed tocopherols (E306), natural D-alpha tocopherol, natural D-alpha tocopherol acetate and natural D-alpha tocopherol succinate derived from soybeans, phytosterols and phytosterol esters derived from soybean vegetable oils, phytostanol esters derived from soybean oil phytosterols; and
• lactitol.

2.For details, traders are advised to consult their importers in Chile and/or the above Chilean Exempt Resolutions (in Spanish), which are available at:

Exempt Resolution No. 427/2010:
http://documentos.minsal.cl/alfresco/d/d/workspace/SpacesStore/
2dfbc4db-619a-4350-a305-67bfb30c46b0/RESOLUCION_427_10.doc

Exempt Resolution No. 817/2012:
http://www.leychile.cl/Navegar?idNorma=1047961&buscar=resolucion+817.

ENQUIRIES

3.For enquiries about the content of this circular, please contact Miss S Y TANG at telephone number 2398 5405.

Yours faithfully,

(Ms Cindy CHENG)

for Director-General of Trade and Industry