Non-Tariff Barriers

NTM classification: B7: Product quality, safety or performance requirements
Date when the measure came into force: 01 August 1975
Publication where the measure is specified: Rhodesia Government Notice No. 82 of 1975
Regulation where the measure is specified: Food and Food Standards (Meat and Preparations of Meat) Regulations, 1975
Country/Region applying the measure: Zimbabwe
The rationale of the measure: These regulations shall apply only to meat and preparations of meat which are sold or intended for sale in Zimbabwe.
Coded list of objectives: X: For purposes n.e.s.
Description of the measure: Boerewors—
(a) shall be composed of the clean, sound and wholesome musculature and fat of the bovine, sheep or pig, or a mixture thereof, and the total meat content shall be not less than 90%, and the meat protein nitrogen shall be not less than 2%; and
(b) may contain cereal substances, spices, harmless flavouring substances and permitted preservatives; and
(c) may contain sodium nitrate, potassium nitrate, sodium nitrite or potassium nitrite, alone or in combination:
Provided that the final product does not contain more than 200 mgs per kg of total nitrite, calculated as sodium nitrite, and not more than 500 mgs per kg of total - nitrate, calculated as sodium nitrate
Reference of the measure: Art 5 (3) (a) to (c)
Measure also domestic: Yes

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

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