Non-Tariff Barriers

NTM classification: B6: Product identity requirement
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: 188. Dietary food
No person shall import, manufacture, process, pack, store or offer for sale or sell food as -
(a) reduced calorie food unless the calorie content of that food is one-Third lower than the calorie content that the food normally has; and
(b) dietary product, unless it complies with the requirements for low energy food and reduced calorie food.
Reference of the measure: Article 188
Measure also domestic: Yes

Code	Product	Partial coverage	Partial coverage indication	Date in	Date out
PG: 7	Food products	Yes	Dietary food and dietary product

Inclusion/Exclusion	Country	Date in	Date out
Inclusion	Entire world

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