Non-Tariff Barriers

NTM classification: B7: Product quality, safety or performance requirements
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: 296.Bread or white bread shall be the food made by baking a yeast-leavened dough prepared with flour and water; and may contain salt, shortening, lard, butter or margarine, milk or milk product, whole egg, egg-white, flour, cassava flour, potato flour, rice flour, soya-bean flour, barley flour, vegetable flours, maize starch, cassava starch, potato starch, wheat starch, any of which may be wholly or partially dextrinised, in an amount not greater than 5 parts by weight of all such additions for each 100 parts of flour, vinegar, acetic acid orcitric acid, a Class III Preservative (seePart XIC of the Nineteenth Schedule), and food additives (see the Nineteenth Schedule) the use and limits of which shall conform to those specified in regulations 325 to 334.
Reference of the measure: Part II para 296
Measure also domestic: Yes

Code	Product	Partial coverage	Partial coverage indication	Date in	Date out
1905	Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products.	Yes	Bread or white bread

Inclusion/Exclusion	Country	Date in	Date out
Inclusion	Entire world	01 December 1972

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