Label requirements · Timor-Leste

Timor-Leste label requirements — check your label

What a label sold in Timor-Leste must carry for food and drinks, other consumer goods, item by item, each with the law it comes from. Paste your label below: Drict shows what it found, on which line, and what is missing.

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Drict looks for the items each label law names, by key words. It is not legal advice and does not say a label is compliant: read the official text, and ask the authority or a specialist before you print.

Food and drinks — what a Timor-Leste label must show

6 mandatory · 5 only if it applies

Mandatory

  • Net quantity (peso liquido / conteudo liquido) — Law 8/2016 on consumer protection
  • List of ingredients (ingredientes / ingrediente) — Law 8/2016 on consumer protection
  • Name and address of the manufacturer / packer / distributor (fabricado por / produzido por) — Law 8/2016 on consumer protection
  • Expiry date (validade / val.) — Law 8/2016 on consumer protection
  • Batch number (lote) — Law 8/2016 on consumer protection
  • Storage conditions (conservar / conservacao) — Law 8/2016 on consumer protection

Only if it applies

  • Name and address of the importer (importado por / importador) — Law 8/2016 on consumer protection
  • Origin (industria brasileira / fabricado em) — Law 8/2016 on consumer protection
  • Allergens (alergicos / contem) — Law 8/2016 on consumer protection
  • Nutrition information (informacao nutricional / valor energetico) — Law 8/2016 on consumer protection
  • Directions for use (modo de usar / modo de preparo) — Law 8/2016 on consumer protection

Language: No Tetum or Portuguese found — labels sold in Timor-Leste are in Tetum or Portuguese (Law 8/2016).

Check by eye: Product name: check it yourself — Tetum or Portuguese.

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Other consumer goods — what a Timor-Leste label must show

1 mandatory · 5 only if it applies

Mandatory

  • Name and address of the manufacturer / packer / distributor (fabricado por / produzido por) — Law 8/2016 on consumer protection

Only if it applies

  • Net quantity (peso liquido / conteudo liquido) — Law 8/2016 on consumer protection
  • Origin (industria brasileira / fabricado em) — Law 8/2016 on consumer protection
  • Directions for use (modo de usar / modo de preparo) — Law 8/2016 on consumer protection
  • Warnings (atencao / cuidado) — Law 8/2016 on consumer protection
  • Name and address of the importer (importado por / importador) — Law 8/2016 on consumer protection

Language: No Tetum or Portuguese found — labels sold in Timor-Leste are in Tetum or Portuguese (Law 8/2016).

Check by eye: Product name: check it yourself — in the languages the law requires. Safety symbols, logos and certification marks are images — they cannot be found as text.

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