G/TBT/N/ZAF/66/Rev.1  
 
11 June 2014  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
NOTIFICATION  
Revision  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.  
 
1. Notifying Member : SOUTH AFRICA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  Department of Healt h 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e -mail and website 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:  
Directorate: Food Control  
Director General of Health  
Private Bag X828  
Pretoria  0001 
South Africa  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [  X ], 2.10.1 [    ], 5.6.2 [  X ], 5.7.1 [    ], other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, oth erwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):   
PREPARATIONS OF MEAT, OF FISH OR OF CRUSTACEANS, MOLLUSCS OR OTHER AQUATIC 
INVERTEBRATES (HS 16), SUGARS AND SUGAR CONFECTIONERY (HS 17), COCOA AND 
COCOA PREPARATIONS (HS 18), Malt extract; food preparations of flour, groats, meal, 
starch or malt extract, not containing cocoa or containing less than 40 % by weight of 
cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included; food 
preparations of goods of headings 04.01 to 04.04, not contai ning cocoa or containing less 
than 5 % by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified 
or included. (HS 1901), Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other 
substances) or otherwise prepared, such as spaghet ti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, 
gnocchi, ravioli, cannelloni; couscous, whether or not prepared. (HS 1902), Tapioca and 
substitutes therefor prepared from starch, in the form of flakes, grains, pearls, siftings or 
in similar forms. (HS 1903), Prepared food s obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals 
or cereal products (for example, corn flakes); cereals (other than maize (corn)) in grain 
form or in the form of flakes or other worked grains (except flour, groats and meal), pre -
cooked, or otherwise prepa red, not elsewhere specified or included. (HS 1904), Bread, 
pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; 
communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing 
wafers, rice paper and similar products. (HS 1905), Vegetables, fruit, nuts and other edible 
parts of plants, prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid. (HS 2001), Tomatoes 
prepared or preserved otherwise than by vi negar or acetic acid. (HS 2002),  Mushrooms 
and truffles, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid. (HS 2003), 
Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, frozen, 
other than products of heading 20.06. (HS 2004), Other vegetables prepared or preserved 
otherwise.  
FOOD TECHNOLOGY (ICS 67), Food products in general (ICS 67.040)  G/TBT/N/ZAF/66/Rev.1  
 
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  5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Regulations 
relating to the labelling and advertising of foods: amendment (112 pages, in English) . 
6. Description of content : The proposed regulation makes provision for the labelling and 
advertising of pre -packaged foodstuffs under the control of the Department of Health, in 
terms of the Foodstuffs, Cosmetics and Disinfectants Act, 1972 (Act 54 of 1972).  
7. Objective and rati onale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information; labelling ; protection of human health or safety.  
8. Relevant documents:  
 Guidelines applicable to the draft regulations relating to the Labelling and 
Advertising of food stuffs (No R429 of 29 May 2014) for compliance purposes (145 
pages in English)  
 Nutrient profiling model calculator on web page of the Directorate: Food control, 
Department of Health: http://www.health.gov.za/f l.php 
 Codex Stan 1:1985 General standard for the labelling of pre -packaged foods  
 ISO/IEC 17065:2012 Conformity assessment - Requirements for bodies certifying 
products, processes and services  
 ISO 22000: 2005 (SANS 22000:2005) Food safety management systems  - 
Requirements for any organization in the food chain  
 ISO 26642:2010 Food products - Determination of the glycaemic index (GI) and 
recommen dation for food classification  
 SANS 885:2011 Processed meat products  
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into 
force:    After all comments was taken into 
consideration  
After all comments was taken into 
consideration  
10. Final date for comments: 60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point  [X], or address, telephone or  fax 
number s, e-mail and web-site address , if available of the other body: