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Spain 



REVISES LABEL RULES 

 FOR IMPORTED FOODS 



Spain has revised label requirements, ef- 

 fective November 5, 1966, for imported proc- 

 essed food products to be sold there. They 

 apply to preserved, semipreserved, and salted 

 fishery products, and require the following 

 information in Spanish on the container or on 

 attached label: 



(1) Country of origin; (2) Usual common 

 name of preserved product in letters not less 

 than 3 millimeters (mm.) high; (3) Forms of 

 preparing preserved product in letters not 

 less than 2 mm. high, i.e., "in sauce," "with 

 tomato," "with brine," "in pure olive oil," 

 "in seed oil," "in natural state," "in simple 

 syrup," etc.; (4) All ingredients of the pre- 

 served product should be listed according to 

 order of importance; (5) Additives, such as 

 coloring materials, antioxidation products, 

 preservers, etc.; (6) Net minimum weight ex- 

 pressed in units of metric system; (7) In- 

 structions, if required, for use or prepara- 

 tion of preserved or prepared product; (8) 



For seimpreserved fish products, in Spanish 

 and visible, the phrase "semiconserva, man- 

 tengase en sitio fresco" (semipreserve, store 

 in a cool place), with month and year of manu- 

 facture. 



Additional information in other languages 

 will be permitted if it does not contradict or 

 confuse the Spanish text. The letters of other 

 languages may be smaller. (U. S. Embassy, 

 Madrid, Oct. 1, 1966.) 



United Kingdom 



FIRM FREEZES PRICE FOR COD FILLETS 



On August 30, 1966, a large British firm 

 announced that its basic prices for frozen 

 cod fillets would remain unchanged for the 

 12 -month contract period beginning October 

 6, 1966. 



U. S. COAST GUARD AND ENFORCEMENT OF 

 INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES TREATIES 



Enforcement of international treaties to preserve valuable marine resources 

 in North American waters is a traditional function of the U. S. Coast Guard. 

 Partly due to Coast Guard efforts, the valuable seal herd on the Pribilof Islands 

 off Alaska is thriving once again. Those animals were on the verge of extinc- 

 tion at the turn of the century by Americans and foreign hunters. The same 

 holds true for valuable species of fish to which the world may turn to more and 

 more as it seeks new sources of high-quality protein. 



Three Coast Guard officers in May 1965 boarded the Soviet tug Stremitelniy 

 at Halifax to undertake a first-hand observation of Soviet law -enforcement tech- 

 niques in the Grand Banks area. Later that month, three Russian officers board- 

 ed the Coast Guard cutter Acushnet for a similar period of observation. Follow- 

 ing the observation, they were taken on a tour of theU. S. Bureau of Commercial 

 Fisheries and of Coast Guard law enforcement units in the vicinity of Boston, 

 Mass. Those activities^ were conducted under the International Convention for 

 Northwest Atlantic Fisheries (ICNAF). (Release No. 16-65, U. S. Coast Guard, 

 Washington, D. C.) 



