Vietnam Sanitary and Phytosanitary Notification Authority and Enquiry Point

This addendum concerns the notification of the Ministerial Decree No. 361/2024 (2 pages, in Arabic) which extends the shelf life of frozen fish and frozen liver stipulated in the Egyptian Standard ES 2613-2/2008 for "Shelf life for food products part 2: shelf life" (18 pages, in Arabic) to be ten months in case of frozen fish and twelve months in case of frozen liver from the date of slaughter. This Decree is valid from 1 July 2024 until 31 December 2024.

It should be noted that the Ministerial Decree No. 100/2019 which was formerly notified in G/SPS/N/EGY/92/Add.1 dated 3 June 2020, the Ministerial Decree No. 653/2020 which was formerly notified in G/SPS/N/EGY/92/Add.2 dated 15 March 2021, the Ministerial Decree No. 222/2021 which was formerly notified in G/SPS/N/EGY/92/Add.3 dated 20 September 2021, the Ministerial Decree No. 522/2021 which was formerly notified in G/SPS/N/EGY/92/Add.4 dated 18 March 2022, the Ministerial Decree No. 393/2022 which was formerly notified in G/SPS/N/EGY/92/Add.5 dated 25 August 2022 and the Ministerial Decree No. 233/2023 which was formerly notified in G/SPS/N/EGY/92/Add.6 dated 21 July 2023, mandated among others the earlier versions and amendments of this Standard.

Worth mentioning is that this standard has been formulated according to National Studies and its updates.

Producers and importers are kept informed of any amendments in the Egyptian standards through the publication of administrative orders in the official gazette.

Date of adoption: 27 June 2024

Date of entry into force: 1 July 2024