Honey

Projet de décret relatif à la sécurité sanitaire et la qualité du miel et des produits de la ruche commercialisés (Draft Decree on the safety and quality of honey and apicultural products available on the market)

The notified draft Decree on the safety and quality of honey and apicultural products available on the market will provide Morocco with a regulatory text defining different types of honey and apicultural products and their physico-chemical characteristics. It has the following objectives:

-      To enable ONSSA control services to ensure the conformity of marketed or imported products;

-      To further motivate operators to produce high-quality honey and apicultural products and to create sector competitiveness to the benefit of consumers wanting these types of products;

-      To provide inspectors with a control tool enabling them to fulfil their task on the basis of national regulatory arguments. This regulatory tool will serve as a filter at border inspection points during the importation of honey and apicultural products; To ensure consumers are informed of the origin of honey and apicultural products, whether locally produced or imported. Consumers are thus better informed to make better choices with regard to products on the market.