Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

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 use and sale of good 

Coded list of objectives

A: Protection of human life and health and X: For purposes n.e.s. 

Description of the measure

192.(1) Ice cream shall be the Pasteurised frozen food made from ice cream mix by freezing; may contain cocoa or chocolate syrup, fruit, nuts or confections; and shall contain not less than 36 per centum of solids; 10 per centum of milk fat, 171 grams of solids per litre, not more than a total bacteria count of 100,000 per gram and 10 coliform organisms per gram as determined by the prescribed method.
(2) For the purpose of regulation 192, "ice cream mix" shall be the unfrozen pasteurized combination of cream milk or other milk products and sweetened with sugar,invert sugar, honey, dextrose, glucose, corn syrup or corn syrup solids; and may contain egg, a flavouring preparation, cocoa or chocolate syrup, a food colour (see Part III of the Nineteenth Schedule), pH adjusting agents (see Part X of the Nineteenth Schedule), a stabilising agent (see Part IV of the Nineteenth Schedule), and a sequestering agent and added lactose 

Reference of the measure

Part II para 192 (1) 

Measure also domestic

Yes 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Ice Cream and Ice cream mix 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

All countries