The Ministry of Health has approved NTS No. 234-MINSA/DIGESA-2025, the Sanitary Standard for food transportation. This Sanitary Standard is mandatory at the national level and applies to both natural and legal persons, whether public or private, involved in the transportation of industrialized food, whether in bulk or pre-packaged, as well as culinary preparations, within the national territory, as follows:

• Transportation of food intended for various distribution establishments (warehouses) and marketing outlets (markets, grocery stores, restaurants, and similar venues, self-service stores, convenience shops, among others);
• Transportation of culinary food intended for collective feeding services operating in various establishments (health facilities, food programs, civil organizations, school cafeterias, companies, factories, mining camps, among others);
• Transportation of bulk food placed in containers, intended for the food industry and for portioning.
• Delivery of food from production and marketing establishments to the final consumer.

Transportation intended for export is excluded from the scope of this Sanitary Standard.

Through Ministerial Resolution No. 229-2025-MINSA, the Ministry of Health has published the draft Sanitary Standard for food transportation.

The Sanitary Standard, if approved, would be of mandatory application at national level, and includes natural and legal persons, public and private, involved in the transportation of industrialized and processed food, as follows:

– Transportation of food intended for distribution establishments (warehouses) and commercialization (markets, warehouses, restaurants and similar, self-service and convenience stores, among others);

– Transportation of processed food intended for collective food services operating in health establishments, food programs, civil organizations, school canteens, companies, factories, among others.

– Transport of industrialized food to large containers, for the food industry and fractionation.

– Delivery of food (called “delivery”) from processing and marketing establishments to final consumption.