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Mauritius

General Information

• WHO Africa - Country Profile: http://www.afro.who.int/des/fos/country_profiles/mauritius.pdf
• The main food safety and quality problems encountered with the country’s imports include non compliance with standards set, especially for saturated fat; labels not properly marked and sometimes marked in foreign languages; several food items are very often packed in a disorderly manner in one and same container thus rending inspection of each item at the port difficult; Expiry dates not printed or embossed in labels or embossed on containers. Mechanism for monitoring food imports is a vailable, though is faced with constraints such as shortage of staff; no advance training to cope with advancement in food technology.The food laws include The Prepackaged Food Regulation GN 174/89; Food Act, which is implemented at Central level by the Ministry of Health; Ministry of Commerce & Cooperatives; and at the Local Level by the Municipalities and District councils. The National standards do not differ from Codex Standards.

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Information last updated - 14 July 2006