Law No. 105-V “On safety and quality of foodstuffs”. País/Territorio Turkmenistán Tipo de documento Legislación Fecha 2014 (2017) Fuente FAO, FAOLEX Materia Alimentación y nutrición Palabra clave Legislación básica Control de calidad de los alimentos/inocuidad de los alimentos Higiene/procedimientos sanitarios Procesamiento/manipulación Envasado/etiquetado Salud pública Certificación Registro Acceso-a-la-información Protección del consumidor Área geográphica Asia, Mar Caspio, Asia Central, CEI (Comunidad de Estados Independientes), Europa y Central Asia, Naciones en desarrollo sin litoral, Asia del Norte Entry into force notes This Law enters into force on the date of its official publication. Resumen 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.” Texto completo Ruso Página web www.minjust.gov.tm Referencias - Legislación Revoca Law on quality and safety of foodstuffs. Legislación | Turkmenistán | 2003 Palabra clave: Legislación básica, Control de calidad de los alimentos/inocuidad de los alimentos, Envasado/etiquetado, Certificación, Registro, Transporte/depósito, Inspección Fuente: FAO, FAOLEX Law on amendments and addenda to the Law on quality and safety of foodstuffs. Legislación | Turkmenistán | 2004 Palabra clave: Institución, Control de calidad de los alimentos/inocuidad de los alimentos Fuente: FAO, FAOLEX