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 October 25, 2026
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. NutritionFactLabel 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
Key facts
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.
Costa Rica food labelling under RTCA 67.01.07:10
Costa Rica applies the Central American Technical Regulations (RTCA) on food labelling, adopted regionally by COMIECO and brought into national law by executive decree. The general rule, RTCA 67.01.07:10, has been in force in Costa Rica since 14 November 2012 through Executive Decree No. 37280-COMEX-MEIC.
For prepackaged foods sold to consumers or food service, the mandatory particulars are:
- name of the food, describing its true nature;
- ingredients in descending order by weight;
- net contents, and drained weight where applicable;
- sanitary registration number;
- name and address of the manufacturer or importer, and country of origin;
- lot identification, indelible; and
- expiry date in the format the RTCA sets, plus storage instructions where needed.
In Costa Rica the regulation also applies to fermented and distilled alcoholic drinks, which some other member countries exclude.
Source: Executive Decree No. 37280-COMEX-MEIC, RTCA 67.01.07:10, SCIJ.
Nutrition labelling under RTCA 67.01.60:10
RTCA 67.01.60:10, in force through Decrees No. 37100-COMEX-MEIC-S and No. 37295-COMEX-MEIC-S, covers nutrition labelling of prepackaged foods for people aged three and over. Nutrition labelling is mandatory when a product carries nutrition information, a nutrition claim or a health-related claim.
When required, the Ministry of Health lists the mandatory nutrients as energy, protein, available carbohydrates, total fat, saturated fat and sodium. Any nutrient in a claim must be added, and total sugars become mandatory when a claim concerns carbohydrates. Trans fat is not a mandatory declaration under this framework.
Costa Rica has no national front-of-pack warning label. The Ministry of Health has stated that the rules in force set no "high in" or "excess" thresholds for calories, fat, sugars or sodium, unlike neighbouring Panama.
Source: Executive Decree No. 37100-COMEX-MEIC-S, MEIC, and Ministry of Health, statement on labelling rules in force.
Spanish labels and stickers on imported food
Mandatory information must be in Spanish. The Ministry of Economy, Industry and Commerce (MEIC) guide to RTCA 67.01.07:10 allows an original Spanish label, or a complementary Spanish label added to a foreign-language one.
A complementary sticker is mandatory where needed to give the Spanish information or missing particulars. It must match the original label, and must not cover the product name, net contents, drained weight, expiry date or lot number on the original.
Imported processed foods also need sanitary registration with the Ministry of Health where it applies.
Who regulates food labelling in Costa Rica
The Ministerio de Salud is the health authority for food sanitary control: it runs food registration and market surveillance, and lists both RTCAs among the rules for registering and labelling foods.
MEIC handles technical regulation and consumer information and carries out market verification of labels.
Products with registration or labelling irregularities can face action by the Ministry of Health, which publishes sanitary alerts when it finds non-compliant products.
Sources
Primary documents this page was written from, checked 2026-10-04.
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