Non-Tariff Barriers

NTM classification: A64: Storage and transport conditions
Date when the measure came into force: 20 October 2009
Publication where the measure is specified: Presidential Order N° 67/01 Of 20/10/2009 Establishing Food Supplements Regulation
Regulation where the measure is specified: Presidential Order N° 67/01 Of 20/10/2009 Establishing Food Supplements Regulation
Country/Region applying the measure: Rwanda
The rationale of the measure: This order concerns food supplements marketed as dietary foodstuffs and presented as such.
Coded list of objectives: X: For purposes n.e.s.
Description of the measure: Food supplements should be stored complying with good practices of their storage.
Reference of the measure: Art 11
Measure also domestic: No

Code	Product	Partial coverage	Partial coverage indication	Date in	Date out
2106	Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included.	Yes	Food supplements
2936	Provitamins and vitamins, natural or reproduced by synthesis (including natural concentrates), derivatives thereof used primarily as vitamins, and intermixtures of the foregoing, whether or not in any solvent.	Yes	Food supplements

Description: Food supplements

A food supplement is a product that:
is intended to supplement the diet that bears or contains one or more of the following dietary ingredients: vitamins; minerals; amino acids; a herb or other botanical product, a dietary substance for use by humans to supplement the diet by increasing the total daily intake, or a concentrate, metabolite, constituent, extract, or
combinations of these ingredients;
is intended to be taken orally in the form of tablet, capsule, powder, soft gel, gel cap, granules or liquid;
is not represented for use as a conventional food or as a sole item of a meal or the diet;
is labelled as dietary supplement

Inclusion/Exclusion	Country	Date in	Date out
Inclusion	Entire world

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