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.

Code Product Partial coverage Partial coverage indication Date in Date out
1601.00.00 Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal or blood; food preparations based on these products. No    
Description
Sausage or sausage Meat 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

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