Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

A21: Tolerance limits for residues of or contamination by certain (non-microbiological) substances 

Date when the measure came into force

01 December 1972 

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 

Description of the measure

291.Maize breakfast food (degerminated maize meal) shall be the product obtained by grinding and bolting cleaned milling grades of degerminated maize from which a portion of the bran and germ has been removed and not less than 95 per centum of which passes through a wire mesh sieve of 800 microns aperture, and shall have not more than 15.0 per centum of moisture, not more than 3.0 per centum of maize oil, not more than 1.5 per centum of crude fibre, not more than 1.0 per centum of total ash, not more than 0.2 per centum of ash in soluble in hydrochloric acid and not more than 0.1 percentum alcoholic acid expressed as sulphuric acid.(As amended by S.I. Nos.39 and 93 of1992) 

Reference of the measure

Part II para 291 

Measure also domestic

Yes 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Maize breakfast food 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

All countries