Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B7: Product quality, safety or performance requirements 

Date when the measure came into force

01 December 2016 

Publication where the measure is specified

The Law of Zambia; Republic of Zambia 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Food and Drugs Act 

Country/Region applying the measure

Zambia 

The rationale of the measure

to protect the public against health hazards and fraud in the sale and use of food 

Coded list of objectives

A: Protection of human life and health and X: For purposes n.e.s. 

Description of the measure

288.Cracked wheat shall be the food prepared by so cracking or cutting cleaned wheat into angular fragments that not less than 90 per centum of it passes through a2,380 micron sieve and not more than 20 per centum of it through an 840 micron sieve, the proportions of the natural constituents of such wheat, other than moisture, remaining unaltered and shall have not less than 1.25 per centum and not more than 2.25 per centum of ash, calculated on a moisture-free basis. It shall have not more than 15.5 per centum of moisture. 

Reference of the measure

Part II para 288 

Measure also domestic

Yes 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Cracked Wheat 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

All countries