Notice - Notification of WTO Members: Draft Food (Meat and Meat Products) Regulations 2020.
WTO code |
G/SPS/N/LKA/44 |
Date notice |
09/01/2020 |
Notice type |
Regular |
Title |
Draft Food (Meat and Meat Products) Regulations 2020. |
Summary |
These regulations set out several requirements for meat andmeat products such as Fresh meat, Lean meat, Chilled meat, Frozen meat, Minced meat or Ground meat, Ham, Bacon, Comminute meat Products, Frozen Formed Meat Products, Cured and Smoked meat, Canned meat.
According to these regulations:
• all meat shall be sound and fit for human consumption and shall be obtained from healthy animals of permitted species.
• fresh meat shall be the edible part of the skeletal muscle of an animal or bird that is normally used for human consumption and that was healthy at the time of slaughter.
It may contain accompanying and overlying fat together with portions of bone, sinew, nerve and blood vessels that normally accompany the muscle tissue and are not separated from it in the process of dressing. It may be accompanied by edible organs.
These regulations prescribe:
• the storing conditions of certain types of meat products and
• heavy metal levels and microbiological limits for each type of meat and meat product.
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Product |
Food products |
Country |
Sri Lanka |
File attach:
NLKA44.pdf
Orther Notice: