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Law No. 105-V “On safety and quality of foodstuffs”.

Country/Territory
Turkmenistan
Document type
Legislation
Date
2014 (2017)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Food & nutrition
Keyword
Basic legislation Food quality control/food safety Hygiene/sanitary procedures Processing/handling Packaging/labelling Public health Certification Registration Access-to-information Consumer protection
Geographical area
Asia, Caspian Sea, Central Asia, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Europe and Central Asia, Landlocked Developing Nations, North Asia
Entry into force notes
This Law enters into force on the date of its official publication.
Abstract

This Law establishes legal, organizational and economic basis for ensuring quality and safety of foodstuffs and is aimed at protection of public health through application of mandatory provisions to legal persons and individual entrepreneurs performing processing, handling, packaging and trade of foodstuffs. National policy in the sphere of ensuring quality and safety of foodstuffs shall be based upon the following principles: (a) prevention of import of poor quality and hazardous foodstuffs; (b) authorization of trade of exclusively high quality and safe foodstuffs; (c) realization of state programs for ensuring quality and safety of foodstuffs; (d) state supervision and control in the sphere of quality and safety of foodstuffs; (e) state registration of foodstuffs and packaging materials for foodstuffs; (f) certification of foodstuffs; (g) information of the population of quality and safety of foodstuffs; and (h) international cooperation.Article 9 shall be amended to add the following wording: “In case of detection of substandard or dangerous foodstuffs, materials for packaging food products during their production, legal entities and individual entrepreneurs are obliged to immediately suspend their production for the period necessary to eliminate the reasons that led to the production of these foodstuffs. If the reasons that led to the production of these foodstuffs and food packaging materials cannot be eliminated, the manufacturer is obliged to stop their production, withdraw them from circulation, ensuring the return of such foodstuffs, materials and products from consumers, organize in the prescribed procedure examination, disposal or destruction thereof.”

Full text
Russian
Website
www.minjust.gov.tm

References - Legislation

Repeals

Law on quality and safety of foodstuffs.

Legislation | Turkmenistan | 2003

Keyword: Basic legislation, Food quality control/food safety, Packaging/labelling, Certification, Registration, Transport/storage, Inspection

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Law on amendments and addenda to the Law on quality and safety of foodstuffs.

Legislation | Turkmenistan | 2004

Keyword: Institution, Food quality control/food safety

Source: FAO, FAOLEX