LKA/44
WTO/SPS
LK Sri Lanka
  • 67 - Food technology
2020-03-09
2020-01-13

Food products

Draft Food (Meat and Meat Products) Regulations 2020. Language(s): English. Number of pages: 16

These regulations set out several requirements for meat and meat products such as Fresh meat, Lean meat, Chilled meat, Frozen meat, Minced meat or Ground meat, Ham, Bacon, Comminute meat Products, Frozen Formed Meat Products, Cured and Smoked meat, Canned meat.

According to these regulations:

·    all meat shall be sound and fit for human consumption and shall be obtained from healthy animals of permitted species.

·    fresh meat shall be the edible part of the skeletal muscle of an animal or bird that is normally used for human consumption and that was healthy at the time of slaughter. It may contain accompanying and overlying fat together with portions of bone, sinew, nerve and blood vessels that normally accompany the muscle tissue and are not separated from it in the process of dressing. It may be accompanied by edible organs.

These regulations prescribe:

·    the storing conditions of certain types of meat products and

·    heavy metal levels and microbiological limits for each type of meat and meat product.

Meat products in Part II to Part VII shall be labelled according to the provisions of the Food (Labelling and Advertising) Regulations-2005 published in Gazette Extraordinary No. 1376/9 of 19 January 2005 as amended from time to time or replaced.

Meat products given in Part II to Part VII shall be packaged in accordance with the Food (Packaging Materials and Articles) Regulations 2010 published in Gazette Extraordinary No. 1660/30 of 29 June 2010 as amended from time to time or replaced.

Meat products given in Part II to Part VII may contain colouring substances in accordance with the Food (Colouring substances) Regulations 2005 published in Gazette Extraordinary No. 1412/19 of 23 November 2006 as amended from time to time or replaced.

Meat products given in Part II to Part VI may contain antioxidants in accordance with the Food (Antioxidants) Regulations 2009 published in Gazette Extraordinary No. 1617/16 of 1 September 2009 as amended from time to time or replaced.

Meat products given in Part II to Part VII may contain preservatives in accordance with the Food (Preservatives) Regulations 2018 published in Gazette Extraordinary No. 2113/16 of 5 March 2019 as amended from time to time or replaced.

Meat products given in Part II to Part VII may contain natural flavouring substances in accordance with the Food (Flavouring Substances and Flavour enhancers) Regulations 2013 published in Gazette Extraordinary No. 1795/51 of 1 February 2013 as amended from time to time or replaced.

According to the regulation no. 10(6); the food additives given in Schedule I may be permitted in ham within the limits specified.  

According to the regulation no. 11(6); the food additives given in Schedule II may be permitted in Bacon within the limits specified.  

According to the regulation no. 12(8); the food additives given in Schedule III may be permitted in Comminuted meat product within the limits specified.   According to the regulation no. 15(6); the food additives given in Schedule III may be permitted in Canned "X" meat product within the limits specified.