Food Safety and Quality Assurance

 

Local and Import Regulations

 

 

Animal Products - Local

 

Since the available hyperlinked documents consist of large MS Word files, it is recommended that it be saved to a disk rather than opening it directly. This can be done by a right click of the mouse and choosing "save target as".

Product Published

Industry Dispensations

Dairy and imitation dairy products

No. R. 1510 of 22 November 2019

 

Eggs

No.R. 345 of 20 March 2020 Regulations regarding the grading, packing and marking of Eggs

 

Edible Ices
(Ice cream, Frozen dessert,
Frozen yoghurt, Soft serve,
Frozen fruit sorbet and Ices)

R.78 of 8 February 2013
English
Afrikaans

R.3617 of 30 June 2023 (from 1 July 2024)

Industry dispensation non-dairy edible ices – November 2017
Combined industry dispensation – 2016
Combined industry dispensation – 2017

Meat

Amendment - No.R. 3450 of 26 May 2023
No. R. 55 of 30 January 2015

 
Mohair

No. R. 864 of 27 June 1997

Poultry meat

No. R. 946 of 27 March 1992
No. R. 988 of 25 July 1997
No. R. 471 of 22 April 2016
Consolidated R946 + R988 + R471

Requirements for free range due to avian Influenza – 18 Jan 2019
Mixed portions and braaipacks – 12 December 2011
Chicken legs/quarters – 5 March 2013
Braai cuts – 17 March 2014
Poultry Scale Labels – September 2015
Country of origin indication – Feb 2016

Processed Meat products

No. R. 1283 of 04 October 2019

 

Certain Raw Processed Meat

No. R. 2410 of 26 August 2022