Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B7: Product quality, safety or performance requirements 

Date when the measure came into force

01 January 1991 

Publication where the measure is specified

Statutory Instrument 149 of 1991 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Food and Food Standards (Pasta Products) Regulations, 1991 

Country/Region applying the measure

Zimbabwe 

The rationale of the measure

These regulations shall apply to all pasta products which are sold or manufactured for sale in Zimbabwe. 

Coded list of objectives

X: For purposes n.e.s. 

Description of the measure

4 The pasta products specified in the first column of the Schedule shall be of the shape or size stipulated opposite thereto in the second and third columns

5 Pasta products may contain any of the following optional ingredients—
(a) egg white, frozen egg white or dried egg white or a combination of these in such quantity that the egg solids are not less than comma five per centum and not more than two per centum of the weight of the finished pasta product;
(b) disodium phosphate in a quantity not less than comma five per centum and not more than one per centum of the finished pasta product;
(c) seasoning;
(d) salt;
(e) gum gluten in such quantity that the total protein content is not more than thirteen per centum of the weight of the finished pasta product;
(f) glycerylmonostearate in a quantity not exceeding two per centum of the weight of the finished product:
Provided that a finished pasta product must contain not less than eighty-seven per centum total solids. 

Reference of the measure

Art 4 and 5 

Measure also domestic

Yes 

Notes

Date set arbitrarily to allow registration of measure as it was not stated in document supplied. NTM Manager to provide details about when the measures were implemented 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Pasta products i.e. the class of food prepared by drying formed units of dough prepared from flour and water with or without one or more of the optional ingredients referred to in section 5 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

All countries