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Ref : EIC 414/2
14 March 2014
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 235/2014
Chile : Nutritional Information on Food Labels
Pursuant to Commercial Information Circular No. 579/2012 of 26 July 2012 regarding the requirments to include all product ingredients in food labels, the Chilean government issued a Decree No. 2/2013 on 17 December 2013 to set out the new labelling requirement regarding the nutritional information of the food products and its advertising.
2.Packaged food for direct consumption containing calories, simple sugars, saturated fat or sodium exceeding the specified thresholds must attach a permanent label or stamp informing consumers of such information, such as "high in sodium" ("Alto en Sodio" in Spanish), "high fat" ("Alto en Grasas" in Spanish) or "high in sugar" ("Alto en Azúcares" in Spanish).
3.The effective dates for the labelling requirement in respect of the following nutrition are as follows:
| Nutrition | Effective Date |
| Saturated fat | 17 June 2014 |
| Simple sugar | 17 December 2014 |
| Calories or sodium | 17 June 2015 |
4.For details, traders are advised to consult their importers in Chile and/or the above Chilean Decree (in Spanish) at:http://www.leychile.cl/Navegar?idNorma=1057419&idVersion=2014-06-17.
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5.For enquiries about the content of this circular, please contact Mr Lewis LAU at telephone number 2398 5405.
Yours faithfully,
(Ms Cindy CHENG)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry
| Note: | While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the above information, the Department cannot guarantee this to be so and will not be held liable for any reliance placed on the same. |