The Draft Food Regulations 2023 will replace the current Food Regulations 1999, with the objective to further strengthen the food control framework in Mauritius by setting standards for the following:

§  Food composition and labelling, including labelling requirements for pre-packed food;

§  Packages for food, including standards for food grade material, which can be used for packaging;

§  Pre-approval permit for any novel food, food produced using gene technology and irradiated food;

§  Examination and sampling of food for clearance at border level as well as surveillance at domestic level;

§  Food hygiene pertaining to building and facilities, food handling practices and personal hygiene of food handlers;

§  Contaminants levels to protect the market from the sale of unsafe food;

§  Chilled and frozen food to enable the transport, storage, display and sale of perishable food safely;

§  Food additives, which can be used in specific food and at which level;

§  Salt, which is allowed for sale;

§  Cereal and cereal product for the sale of fortified flour;

§  Egg and egg product to ensure their safe consumption;

§  Special purpose food for the health protection of infants and children;

§  Edible oil or fat concerning saturated fat and trans-fat;

§  Mayonnaise and sauce for their production;

§  Milk and milk product to ensure their safety and nutritional quality;

§  Meat and meat product processing and sale;

§  Fish and fish product, which are safe for human consumption;

§  Packaged water and natural mineral water for their production and sale;

§  Food safety management system requirement for food establishments involved in specific types of food, mayonnaise, fish and fish product, meat and meat product, and packaged water and natural mineral water; and

§  Food prohibited for sale in educational institutions, such pre-primary, primary and secondary schools. 

Meat and edible meat offal (HS code(s): 02); Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates (HS code(s): 03); Dairy produce; Birds' eggs; Natural honey; Edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included (HS code(s): 04); Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included (HS code(s): 05); Live trees and other plants; Bulbs, roots and the like; Cut flowers and ornamental foliage (HS code(s): 06); Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers (HS code(s): 07); Edible fruit and nuts; Peel of citrus fruit or melons (HS code(s): 08); Coffee, tea, maté and spices (HS code(s): 09); Cereals (HS code(s): 10); Products of the milling industry; Malt; Starches; Inulin; Wheat gluten (HS code(s): 11); Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; Miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit; Industrial or medicinal plants; Straw and fodder (HS code(s): 12); Lac; Gums, resins and other vegetable saps and extracts (HS code(s): 13); Vegetable plaiting materials; vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included (HS code(s): 14); Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes (HS code(s): 15); Preparations of meat, of fish, of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or of insects (HS code(s): 16); Sugars and sugar confectionery (HS code(s): 17); Cocoa and cocoa preparations (HS code(s): 18); Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; Pastrycooks' products (HS code(s): 19); Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants (HS code(s): 20); Miscellaneous edible preparations (HS code(s): 21); Beverages, spirits and vinegar (HS code(s): 22); Residues and waste from the food industries; Prepared animal fodder (HS code(s): 23); Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes; Products, whether or not containing nicotine, intended for inhalation without combustion; other nicotine containing products intended for the intake of nicotine into the human body (HS code(s): 24); Salt; Sulphur; Earths and stone; Plastering materials, lime and cement (HS code(s): 25)