Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

A22: Restricted use of certain substances in foods and feeds and their contact materials 

Date when the measure came into force

01 January 2000 

Publication where the measure is specified

Government Notice 173 of 1999 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Food Regulations 1999 

Country/Region applying the measure

Mauritius 

The rationale of the measure

No specific objective stated 

Coded list of objectives

X: For purposes n.e.s. 

Description of the measure

91. Food which may contain permitted colouring substance
(a) Food specified in the Fifteenth Schedule may not contain added colouring substance except where specially provided for in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Schedules.
(b) Food specified in column I of the Sixteenth Schedule may contain permitted colouring substance and to the maximum permissible level specified in relation to it in columns 2 and 3 respectively of the Schedule.
(c) The colouring substance specified in column I of Seventeenth Schedule may be used in the food and to the maximum permissible level specified in relation to it in columns 2 and 3 respectively of the Schedule.
(d) The colouring substance specified in the Eighteenth Schedule shall be permitted in all food other than those mentioned in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Schedules at GMP.
(e) The colouring substance specified in the Nineteenth Schedule may be added singly or in combination to the food and up to the maximum permissible level specified in relation thereto in columns 1 and 2 of the Twentieth Schedule. 

Reference of the measure

Article 91 

Measure also domestic

Yes 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Food products 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

Entire world