Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

A31: Labelling 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

315.Sausage or sausage meat shall be the fresh or preserved comminuted meat to which has been added salt, a Class I Preservative (see Part XIA of the Nineteenth Schedule), and spices (see regulations 325 to 334); may be enclosed in a casing, dipped in vinegar, smoked or cooked; and may contain animal fat, filler, beef tripe, liver, fresh blood from meat cattle, sugar, dextrose or glucose, other seasonings, harmless Lacto bacilli cultures, lactic acid starter culture, Pediococcus cerevisiae, meat binder,blood plasma or, in the case of preserved comminuted meat, smoke flavouring or artificial smoke flavouring, in which case the main panel of the label shall carry, immediately preceding or following the common name, the statement, "Smoke Flavouring Added" or,"Artificial Smoke Flavouring Added", as the case may be; or, if cooked, glucona deltalactone, partially defatted beef fatty tissue, and a dried skim milk product, obtained fromskim milk by the reduction of its calcium content and a corresponding increase in its sodium content, in an amount not exceeding 3 per centum of the finished food or, in the case of a dry sausage or dry sausage meat, glucone delta lactone; and shall contain not less than 65 per centum of meat and, in a case of a product sold as fresh sausage, not more than 40 per centum of fat as determined by the prescribed method. 

Reference of the measure

Part II para 315 

Measure also domestic

Yes 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Sausage or sausage Meat 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

All countries