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RTCA 67.01.60:10: Costa Rica nutrition label

RTCA 67.01.60:10, the Costa Rican nutrition label under RTCA 67.01.60:10 (adopted CR: Decreto 37295-COMEX-MEIC-S), 9 mandatory nutrients, per serving as sold, Spanish on pack. Generate a compliant label free.

Reviewed against RTCA 67.01.60:10 (adopted CR: Decreto 37295-COMEX-MEIC-S) · Page updated August 16, 2026

Jurisdiction
Costa Rica (packaged food sold at retail)
Regulation
RTCA 67.01.60:10 (adopted CR: Decreto 37295-COMEX-MEIC-S)
Effective
25 September 2012
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Nutrition labelling requirements in Costa Rica

Packaged food sold in Costa Rica must carry a nutrition declaration under RTCA 67.01.60:10 (adopted CR: Decreto 37295-COMEX-MEIC-S). This page covers the Costa Rica - RTCA 67.01.60:10 format: Central American Technical Regulation, Codex-aligned per-portion table. A compliant Costa Rican nutrition label declares 9 mandatory nutrients: energía, proteínas, grasa total, grasa saturada, grasa trans, carbohidratos totales, azúcares totales, fibra dietética and sodio. Values are declared per serving as sold, with energy in kcal, and sodium rather than salt. The panel is headed "Información Nutricional". Spanish is required on pack. There is no mandatory front-of-pack warning scheme. Costa Rica adopts RTCA 67.01.60:10 rather than writing its own labelling text, so a label built to that standard travels across every market that adopted it. NFL builds a print-ready Costa Rican nutrition label from your recipe, applying the rounding rules and reference intakes for Costa Rica automatically, and exports it as PDF, PNG, SVG, JPG or EPS.

Official regulation

Citation
RTCA 67.01.60:10 (adopted CR: Decreto 37295-COMEX-MEIC-S)
Effective
25 September 2012
Scope
Costa Rica (packaged food sold at retail)
Source

Key facts

Mandatory nutrients (9)
Energía, Proteínas, Grasa total, Grasa saturada, Grasa trans, Carbohidratos totales, Azúcares totales, Fibra dietética and Sodio
Declaration basis
Per serving as sold
Energy units
kcal
Sodium or salt
Declared as sodium, not salt
Panel heading
Información Nutricional
Label language
Spanish required on pack
Front of pack
No mandatory front-of-pack warning scheme

One standard, 6 markets

Costa Rica applies RTCA 67.01.60:10, a harmonised standard adopted in full by 5 other markets. A label built to this standard is accepted in all of them, subject to each market's own language rules and its own enforcement body. The sibling markets are El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama.

How NFL handles it

  • Applies the correct rounding rules for every nutrient
  • Uses the right Daily Value / Reference Intake table for this jurisdiction
  • Renders the required front-of-pack warnings automatically when thresholds are hit
  • Handles multilingual labels where required (bilingual EN/FR, EN/ES, Arabic + EN, etc.)
  • Exports print-ready vector PDF, PNG, SVG, JPG, and EPS

Common questions

Is a nutrition declaration mandatory in Costa Rica?
Yes. Packaged food sold in Costa Rica must carry a nutrition declaration under RTCA 67.01.60:10 (adopted CR: Decreto 37295-COMEX-MEIC-S).
When did RTCA 67.01.60:10 (adopted CR: Decreto 37295-COMEX-MEIC-S) take effect?
RTCA 67.01.60:10 (adopted CR: Decreto 37295-COMEX-MEIC-S) has applied since 25 September 2012.
Which label format does Costa Rica use?
Costa Rica uses the Costa Rica format. Central American Technical Regulation, Codex-aligned per-portion table.

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