to protect the public against health hazards and fraud in the sale and use of food
Coded list of objectives
A: Protection of human life and health
Description of the measure
283 Agar or agar-agar shall be the dried, purified, mucilaginous food obtained by aqueous extraction of sea weeds of the species Gelidium, shall contain, on the dry basis,not more than 7.0 per centum of total ash and 1.0 per centum of ash insoluble in hydrochloric acid and shall yield, with water,a practically colourless and tasteless solution.Grain and Bakery Products
Applied by Zambia on the entire world for 3503: Gelatin (including gelatin in rectangular (including square) sheets, whether or not surface-worked or coloured) and gelatin derivatives; isinglass; other glues of animal origin, excluding casein glues of heading 35.01.
to protect the public against health hazards and fraud in the sale and use of food
Coded list of objectives
A: Protection of human life and health
Description of the measure
282.Gelatin or edible gelatin shall be the protein produced by partial hydrolysis of collagen in skin, tendons, ligaments and bones of animals; may contain sulphurous acid or its salts; shall dissolve completely in warm water to get a clear translucent colloidal solution which sets to a jelly when cooled to and maintained at 15.5º for two hours; and shall contain, on the dry basis, not more than 2.0 per centum of total ash, less than 10,000 total plate count per gram and a nil coliform count in 1.0 gram
Reference of the measure
Part II para 282
Measure also domestic
Yes
Products affected by the measure.
Code
Product
Partial coverage
Partial coverage indication
Date in
Date out
3503
Gelatin (including gelatin in rectangular (including square) sheets, whether or not surface-worked or coloured) and gelatin derivatives; isinglass; other glues of animal origin, excluding casein glues of heading 35.01.
to protect the public against health hazards and fraud in the sale and use of food
Coded list of objectives
A: Protection of human life and health
Description of the measure
286.Whole wheat meal (whole wheat flour) shall be the food prepared by the grinding and bolting of cleaned, milling grades of wheat from which a part of the outer bran or epidermis layer may have been separated; shall contain the natural constituents of the wheat berry to the extent of not less than 95 per centum of the total weight of the wheat from which it is milled, have not less than 1.25 per centum and not more than 2.25 per centum of ash, calculated on a moisture free basis, and not more than 15.0 per centum of moisture and such a degree of fineness that not less than 90 per centum of it bolts freely through a 2,380 micron sieve, and less than 50 per centum of it through an 840 micron sieve, and may contain malted wheat flour, malted barley flour in an amount not exceeding 1.0 per per centum of the flour, and food additives the use and limits of which shall conform to those specified in regulations 325 to 334.
to protect the public against health hazards and fraud in the sale and use of food
Coded list of objectives
A: Protection of human life and health
Description of the measure
290.Maize roller meal (mealier meal) shall be the product obtained by grinding and bolting cleaned milling grades of maize such that not less than 95 per centum of it passes through a mesh of 800 microns aperture, and shall have not more than 15.0 per centum of moisture, not more than 4.5 per centum of maize oil, not more than 2.0 per centum of crude fibre, not more than 1.5 per centum of total ash, not more than 0.3 per centum of ash insoluble in hydrochloric acid and not more than 0.1 per centum alcoholic acid expressed as sulphuric acid.(As amended by S.I. Nos.37 and 93 of1992)
to protect the public against health hazards and fraud in the sale and use of food
Coded list of objectives
A: Protection of human life and health
Description of the measure
291.Maize breakfast food (degerminated maize meal) shall be the product obtained by grinding and bolting cleaned milling grades of degerminated maize from which a portion of the bran and germ has been removed and not less than 95 per centum of which passes through a wire mesh sieve of 800 microns aperture, and shall have not more than 15.0 per centum of moisture, not more than 3.0 per centum of maize oil, not more than 1.5 per centum of crude fibre, not more than 1.0 per centum of total ash, not more than 0.2 per centum of ash in soluble in hydrochloric acid and not more than 0.1 percentum alcoholic acid expressed as sulphuric acid.(As amended by S.I. Nos.39 and 93 of1992)
Reference of the measure
Part II para 291
Measure also domestic
Yes
Products affected by the measure.
Code
Product
Partial coverage
Partial coverage indication
Date in
Date out
1904.10.00
- Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products
Applied by Zambia on the entire world for 1905: Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products.
to protect the public against health hazards and fraud in the sale and use of food
Coded list of objectives
A: Protection of human life and health
Description of the measure
296.Bread or white bread shall be the food made by baking a yeast-leavened dough prepared with flour and water; and may contain salt, shortening, lard, butter or margarine, milk or milk product, whole egg, egg-white, egg-yolk (fresh, dried or frozen), a sweetening agent, malt syrup, malt extract or malt flour, inactive dried yeast of the genus Saccharomyces cerevisiae in an amount not greater than 2 parts by weight for each 100 parts of flour used, oatmeal, maize flour, cassava flour, potato flour, rice flour, soya-bean flour, barley flour, vegetable flours, maize starch, cassava starch, potato starch, wheat starch, any of which may be wholly or partially dextrinised, in an amount not greater than 5 parts by weight of all such additions for each 100 parts of flour, vinegar, acetic acid orcitric acid, a Class III Preservative (seePart XIC of the Nineteenth Schedule), and food additives (see the Nineteenth Schedule) the use and limits of which shall conform to those specified in regulations 325 to 334.
Reference of the measure
Part II para 296
Measure also domestic
Yes
Products affected by the measure.
Code
Product
Partial coverage
Partial coverage indication
Date in
Date out
1905
Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products.
Applied by Zambia on the entire world for 1905: Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products.
to protect the public against health hazards and fraud in the sale and use of food
Coded list of objectives
A: Protection of human life and health
Description of the measure
297.Enriched bread or enriched white bread shall be the bread baked from a yeast-leavened dough, and shall contain, for each 100 parts of flour used, not less than 2 parts by weight of skim milk solids, or 4 parts by weight of dried whey powder, and in each kilogram, not less than 2.4 milligrams and not more than 5.3 milligrams of thiamine, not less than 1.8 milligrams and not more than 4.0 milligrams of riboflavin, not less than 22.2 milligrams and not more than 33.3millig acid or niacin amide, and not less than 18.0 milligrams and not more than 27.7 milligrams of iron.
Reference of the measure
Part II para 297
Measure also domestic
Yes
Products affected by the measure.
Code
Product
Partial coverage
Partial coverage indication
Date in
Date out
1905
Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products.
to protect the public against health hazards and fraud in the sale and use of food
Coded list of objectives
A: Protection of human life and health
Description of the measure
313. No person shall sell prepared meat or prepared meat by-product, except black pudding, and white pudding, that contains more than that amount of filler, meat binder or other ingredient, that is represented by 4 per centum of reducing sugars, calculated as dextrose, as determined by the prescribed method, or 60 per centum of moisture where such prepared meat or prepared meat by-product contains filler.
Reference of the measure
Part II para 313
Measure also domestic
Yes
Products affected by the measure.
Code
Product
Partial coverage
Partial coverage indication
Date in
Date out
1602
Other prepared or preserved meat, meat offal or blood.
Applied by Zambia on the entire world and the entire world for 1101.00.00: Wheat or meslin flour., 1102: Cereal flours other than of wheat or meslin., 1105.10.00: - Flour, meal and powder and 1106: Flour, meal and powder of the dried leguminous vegetables of heading 07.13, of sago or of roots or tubers of heading 07.14 or of the products of Chapter 8.
to protect the public against health hazards and fraud in the sale and use of food
Coded list of objectives
A: Protection of human life and health
Description of the measure
333. In respect of regulations 284 to 299 and Part II of the Nineteenth Schedule, potassium bromate, calcium peroxide, ammonium persulphate, potassium persulphate or any combination thereof, shall be used in an amount not greater than 0.01 part by weight of all such additives for each 100 parts of flour.
Reference of the measure
Part II para 333
Measure also domestic
Yes
Products affected by the measure.
Code
Product
Partial coverage
Partial coverage indication
Date in
Date out
1101.00.00
Wheat or meslin flour.
No
1102
Cereal flours other than of wheat or meslin.
No
1105.10.00
- Flour, meal and powder
No
1106
Flour, meal and powder of the dried leguminous vegetables of heading 07.13, of sago or of roots or tubers of heading 07.14 or of the products of Chapter 8.
Applied by Zambia on the entire world for 1101.00.00: Wheat or meslin flour., 1102: Cereal flours other than of wheat or meslin., 1105.10.00: - Flour, meal and powder and 1106: Flour, meal and powder of the dried leguminous vegetables of heading 07.13, of sago or of roots or tubers of heading 07.14 or of the products of Chapter 8.
to protect the public against health hazards and fraud in the sale and use of food
Coded list of objectives
A: Protection of human life and health
Description of the measure
332.In respect of regulations 284 to 299 and Part XIV of the Nineteenth Schedule, ammonium chloride, ammonium sulphate,calcium carbonate, calcium lactate, diammonium phosphate, dicalcium phosphate, monoammonium phosphate or any combination thereof shall be used in an amount not greater than 0.25 part by weight of all such additives for each 100 parts of flour.
Reference of the measure
Part II para 332
Measure also domestic
Yes
Products affected by the measure.
Code
Product
Partial coverage
Partial coverage indication
Date in
Date out
1101.00.00
Wheat or meslin flour.
No
1102
Cereal flours other than of wheat or meslin.
No
1105.10.00
- Flour, meal and powder
Yes
flour
1106
Flour, meal and powder of the dried leguminous vegetables of heading 07.13, of sago or of roots or tubers of heading 07.14 or of the products of Chapter 8.
to protect the public against health hazards and fraud in the sale and use of food
Coded list of objectives
A: Protection of human life and health
Description of the measure
338.Icing sugar shall be the finely pulverised white sugar with or without the addition of an anticaking agent. It may contain not more than 5 per centum of starch, if no other anticaking agent is used. If an anticaking agent is used, its use and limits shall conform to those specified in Part I of the Nineteenth Schedule. It may contain not more than 20 parts per million of residual sulphur dioxide from the white sugar used.
339. Brown sugar, yellow sugar, or golden sugar shall be the food obtained from the syrups originating in the sugar refining process. It shall contain not more than 4.5 per centum of moisture, not more than 3.5 per centum of sulphated ash, and not less than 90 per centum of sugar and invert sugar
Reference of the measure
Part II para 339
Measure also domestic
Yes
Products affected by the measure.
Code
Product
Partial coverage
Partial coverage indication
Date in
Date out
1701
Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form.
386.Soft drinks are the class of beverages made by absorbing carbon dioxide in potable water with or without various added substances. The amount of carbon dioxide used shall not be less than that which shall be absorbed by the beverage at a pressure of one atmosphere and at a temperature of 15.6ºC. It shall contain either no alcohol or only such ethyl alcohol (ethanol), not in excess of 0.5 per centum of the finished beverage, as is contributed by a flavouring ingredient used.
to protect the public against health hazards and fraud in the sale and use of food
Coded list of objectives
X: For purposes n.e.s.
Description of the measure
23.Where a standard for a food is not prescribed in this Part-
(a)the food shall not contain any food additives except food additives set out in a Part of the Nineteenth Schedule for use as additives to that food for the purpose set out, except in the case of Part VIII of the said Schedule, at the heading to that Part and in the case of Part VIII of the said Schedule, in the column marked "column 4" thereof;
(b) each such food additive shall be incurporated in the food in a quantity within any limits prescribed for that food and food additive in that Part.
89.Wine shall be the product of alcoholic fermentation of the juices of grapes or other fruits, may have added to it yeast, concentrated grape juice, sugar, dextrose, or invert sugar, or aqueous solutions of any of the yeast foods, brandy or fruit spirit, carbon dioxide or oxygen, and may be treated, prior to filtration, with a strongly acid cation exchange resin in the sodium ion form or weak basic ion exchange resin in the hydroxyl form and, if food additives or food colours are used in the course of manufacture of wine,their use and limits shall conform to those specified in the Nineteenth Schedule.
Reference of the measure
Part II para 89
Measure also domestic
Yes
Products affected by the measure.
Code
Product
Partial coverage
Partial coverage indication
Date in
Date out
2204
Wine of fresh grapes, including fortified wines; grape must other than that of heading 20.09.
90.No person shall sell wine that contains more than 0.35 percentum weight by volume of volatile acid calculated as acetic acid as determined by the prescribed method
Reference of the measure
Part II para 90
Measure also domestic
Yes
Products affected by the measure.
Code
Product
Partial coverage
Partial coverage indication
Date in
Date out
2204
Wine of fresh grapes, including fortified wines; grape must other than that of heading 20.09.
Applied by Zambia on the entire world for 2206.00.00: Other fermented beverages (for example, cider, perry, mead); mixtures of fermented beverages and mixtures of fermented beverages and non-alcoholic beverages, not elsewhere specified or included.
91.Cider shall be the product of the alcoholic fermentation of apple juice or of apple juice to which has been added not more than 10 per centum weight by volume of sugar, dextrose or invert sugar, shall contain not less than 2.5 percentum and not more than 13 per centum by volume of absolute alcohol; and 100 millilitres of it, measured at a temperature of 20ºC, shall-
(a)contain not less than 2 grams and not more than 12 grams of total acids and not more than 8 grams of sugar calculated as dextrose sugars; and
(b) yield not less than 0.2 gram and not more than 0.4 gram of ash.
Reference of the measure
Part II para II
Measure also domestic
Yes
Products affected by the measure.
Code
Product
Partial coverage
Partial coverage indication
Date in
Date out
2206.00.00
Other fermented beverages (for example, cider, perry, mead); mixtures of fermented beverages and mixtures of fermented beverages and non-alcoholic beverages, not elsewhere specified or included.
Applied by Zambia on the entire world for 2206.00.00: Other fermented beverages (for example, cider, perry, mead); mixtures of fermented beverages and mixtures of fermented beverages and non-alcoholic beverages, not elsewhere specified or included.
92.No person shall sell cider that has more than 0.2 per centum weight by volume of volatile acidity calculated as acetic acid as determined by the prescribed method
Reference of the measure
Part II para 92
Measure also domestic
Yes
Products affected by the measure.
Code
Product
Partial coverage
Partial coverage indication
Date in
Date out
2206.00.00
Other fermented beverages (for example, cider, perry, mead); mixtures of fermented beverages and mixtures of fermented beverages and non-alcoholic beverages, not elsewhere specified or included.
Applied by Zambia on the entire world for 2206.00.00: Other fermented beverages (for example, cider, perry, mead); mixtures of fermented beverages and mixtures of fermented beverages and non-alcoholic beverages, not elsewhere specified or included.
93.Perry shall be the product of alcoholic fermentation of pear juice or pear juice to which has been added not more than 10 per centum weight by volume of sugar,dextrose or invert sugar, shall contain not less than 2.5 per centum and not more than 13 per centum by volume of absolute alcohol; and 100 millilitres of it, measured at a temperature of 20ºC, shall-
(a) contain not less than 2 grams and not more than 12 grams of total solids and not more than 8 grams of sugar calculated as dextrose sugar; and
(b) yield not less than 0.2 gram and not more than 0.4 gram of ash.
Reference of the measure
Part II para 93
Measure also domestic
Yes
Products affected by the measure.
Code
Product
Partial coverage
Partial coverage indication
Date in
Date out
2206.00.00
Other fermented beverages (for example, cider, perry, mead); mixtures of fermented beverages and mixtures of fermented beverages and non-alcoholic beverages, not elsewhere specified or included.
94.Beer, ale, stout, porter, lager beer and black beer shall be that food produced as a result of alcoholic fermentation of an extract derived from barley malt or cereal grain or starch or saccharine matter and hop derivatives in potable water with other suitable ingredients in such a manner as to possess the aroma, taste, and character commonly attributed to the relevant food; and if food additives are used in the course of their manufacture, their use and limits shall conform to those specified in the Nineteenth Schedule, and they shall contain-
(a) absolute alcohol, not less than 3.2 per centum;
(b)total solids, not less than 3.5 percentum weight by volume; and
(c)total ash, not less than 0.12 percentum weight by volume.
Reference of the measure
Part II para 94
Measure also domestic
Yes
Products affected by the measure.
Code
Product
Partial coverage
Partial coverage indication
Date in
Date out
2203.00.10
Opaque beer made from malt
No
2203.00.90
Other beers,including ale,lager and stoutmade from malt
No
Description
Beer, ale, stout, porter, lager beer and black beer
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