Hygienic Requirement for Food

Description The measure (Chapter 10, Para 22 (a, f) provides the hygienic requirement on food. No one shall import the food that may be poisonous, dangerous or injurious to the health of the consumer, food containing putrid, deteriorated substance or substance unfit for human consumption. The objectives of the measure are to enable the public to consume food of genuine quality, free from danger and hygienic, to prevent the public from consuming food that may cause danger or are injurious to health, to supervise production of controlled food systemically, to control and regulate the production, import, export, storage, distribution and sale of food systematically.
Comments National Food Law 1997 is issued by the Ministry of Health and Sports and issued the Law Amending the National Food Law in 2013. This measure is subject to change as the conditions in the country changed.
Agency Department of Food and Drug Administration
Export/Import Import
Validity From 1997-03-03
Validity To Untill it is cancelled by the responsible agency.
Reference National Food Law 1997
Technical Code
UN Code A4 - Hygienic requirements related to SPS
Measure Type A. SANITARY AND PHYTOSANITARY MEASURES
Updated At 2018-06-21 13:11:53

Legal Documents
Name Category
National Food Law (1997) Law
Procedures
Name Description Category
Food Import Health Certificate Procedures for Obtaining Food Import Health Certificate (IHC) from Food and Drug Administration under the Ministry of Health and Sports Import
Food Import Recommendation Obtaining Food Import Recommendation from Food and Drug Administration under the Ministry of Health Import
Commodities

This measure applies to the following commodities.

HS Code Description
0401209000 - - Other
0401401000 - - Milk in liquid form
0401402000 - - Milk in frozen form
0401409000 - - Other
0401501000 - - In liquid form
0401509000 - - Other
0402104100 - - - In containers of a gross weight of 20 kg or more
0402104200 - - - In containers of a net weight of 2 kg or less
0402104900 - - - Other
0402109100 - - - In containers of a gross weight of 20 kg or more
0402109200 - - - In containers of a net weight of 2 kg or less
0402109900 - - - Other
0402212000 - - - In containers of a gross weight of 20 kg or more
0402213000 - - - In containers of a net weight of 2 kg or less
0402219000 - - - Other