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

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, egg-yolk (fresh, dried or frozen), a sweetening agent, malt syrup, malt extract or malt flour, inactive dried yeast of the genus Saccharomyces cerevisiae in an amount not greater than 2 parts by weight for each 100 parts of flour used, oatmeal, maize 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 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Bread or white bread 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

All countries