Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

A89: Conformity assessment related to SPS conditions n.e.s. 

Date when the measure came into force

12 August 2019 

Publication where the measure is specified

Food Safety Act No. 7 of 2019 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Food and Drugs Act No. 7 of 2019 

Country/Region applying the measure

Zambia 

Coded list of objectives

A: Protection of human life and health 

Description of the measure

23. (1) An appropriate enforcement authority may, where a person carries on a business in the course of which a product, substance or material is used in the preparation of any food or is imported, produced or sold for use in the preparation of any food, serve on that person a notice requiring the person to furnish to the appropriate enforcement authority, within the time that may be specified in respect of the product, substance or material or a class specified in the notice.
23 (2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), a notice made under that subsection may require the furnishing of the following particulars of a substance, product or material to which it applies:
(a) the composition of the substance, product or material and the chemical formula of every ingredient of the substance, product or material;
(b) the manner in which the substance, product or material is used or intended to be used in the preparation of any food; 

Reference of the measure

PART III: Section 23 ( 10 ; Section 23 ( a) and (b) 

Measure also domestic

Yes 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Food product, substance or material 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.