Order No. 20/2003/L-CTN promulgating the Ordinance on food hygiene and safety.

The Order includes the following: Chapter I, General Provisions; Chapter II, Food production and trading: Section 1- Fresh and raw food production and trading; Section 2- Food processing; Section 3- Food preservation and transportation; Section 4- Food import, export; Section 5- Food production and business conditions; Section 6- Announcement of food hygiene and safety standards; Section 7- Food advertisement and labelling. Chapter III, Prevention and overcoming of food poisoning and diseases transmitted via food; Chapter IV, State Management over food hygiene and safety. The Ordinance provides for the application of hygiene and safety measures in processing, packing, storing, transporting food either fresh or raw; it provides for the additives used in food processing, accidental poisoning, eventual food -transmitted diseases and the GMO technologies applied to food production.