Indonesia – Regulation on the Safety and Quality Standard of Alcoholic Beverages Bureau for International Cooperation has issued regulation to regulate safety and quality standard, labelling and advertising of alcoholic beverages. Alcoholic beverages distributed in Indonesia both domestically or imported shall meet specified safety standard, quality standard, labelling and advertising in accordance with the provisions of this draft regulation. Safety standard included: 1. Maximum level of the methanol content 2. Microbial contaminations 3. Chemical contaminations 4. Food additives Maximum level of the methanol in alcohol beverages is not more than 0.01% v/v (calculated on the volume of products). The microbial contaminations, chemical contaminations and food additives conform with the provisions of the legislation. Quality standard of alcoholic beverages are specified in Annex. The Alcoholic beverages labelling shall declare the information at least, as follow: 1. "Alcoholic beverages" and the type of Alcoholic beverages as defined in Regulation of the Chairman of NAFDC RI No. 1 Year 2015 on Food Category 2. Prohibited to consume for under 21 years old or the pregnant woman 3. Contained alcohol + .... % v/v 4. The information above shall be written in Bahasa 5. Alcoholic beverages are prohibited to be advertised in any mass media. Proposed date of adoption: To be determined Proposed date of entry into force: To be determined Final date for comments: 60 days from notification |