Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B31: Labelling requirements 

Date when the measure came into force

01 January 2000 

Publication where the measure is specified

Government Notice 173 of 1999 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Food Regulations 1999 

Country/Region applying the measure

Mauritius 

The rationale of the measure

No specific objective stated 

Coded list of objectives

X: For purposes n.e.s. 

Description of the measure

330. Special labelling requirements for manufactured meat and meat product
No person shall import, manufacture, process, pack, store, offer for sale or sell manufactured meat or a meat product unless, in compliance with regulation 3, the label bears -
(a) the common name of the animal whose meat has been used
to prepare the manufactured meat or the meat product;
(b) the common name of each animal whose meat has been used to prepare the manufactured meat or the meat product, where the manufactured meat or meat product has been prepared from a mixture of meat of animals of different common appellation; and
(c) the words "LIVER PASTE" where there is more than 51 % liver in a paste containing liver and meat. 

Reference of the measure

Article 330 

Measure also domestic

Yes 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Meat products 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

Entire world