The Problem of Regulating Labels

Businesses are objecting to BPOM’s regulation requiring bottled drinking water companies to mention bisphenol A content on their labels. The regulation benefits PET bottle producers.

Agung Sedayu

May 9, 2022

THE office of Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU) Commissioner, Chandra Setiawan, turned hectic in early April. Representatives from several drinking water companies joined under the Association of Indonesian Producers of Packaged Drinking Water (Aspadin) visited to object to the Food and Drug Monitoring Agency’s (BPOM) draft regulation on processed food labeling.

The businesspeople feel that several articles in the draft re

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