BPOM Tightens Food Packaging Rules: Nutri-Level Labels and Stricter BPA Migration Limits
Two 2026 regulations require front-of-pack Nutri-Level labeling with a 24-month transition and expand regulated plastics from 41 to 58 types with phased BPA limits down to 0.05 mg/kg.
Indonesia's food and drug authority BPOM has completed a two-part overhaul of processed food regulation in 2026. PerBPOM 10/2026 introduces mandatory Nutri-Level front-of-pack labeling, promulgated June 17 with a 24-month transition running to around mid-2028. PerBPOM 11/2026, socialized at an October 12–13 event, covers food contact materials: it expands the list of regulated plastic types from 41 to 58 and phases in stricter bisphenol A (BPA) migration limits, tightening stepwise to 0.05 mg/kg.
The compliance burden falls on every food manufacturer and importer: labels and packaging artwork must be revised, and material documentation — specifications, migration test reports, registration dossiers — must be updated per SKU within the transition window.
BPOM has also been building internal AI capacity, including training around its Garuda AI initiative, a signal of the regulator's openness to automated approaches. For the food industry, the two regulations create a large, repetitive documentation workload — label verification, artwork checking and specification management — that will run through 2028.