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| Food - Regulated Food and Food Products |
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Food for human consumption should meet the following requirements:
Freedom from pathogens and toxins:
- Quality and composition:
- Packaging and labelling:
- FAI administers food safety regulations (compulsory specifications) for
- Canned meat and canned meat products.
- Canned fish, marine molluscs and crustaceans
- Frozen fish and marine molluscs
- Frozen rock lobster
- Frozen shrimps, langoustines and crabs
- Smoked Snoek
Download the compulsory specifications at
https://www.sabs.co.za/Business_Units/Standards_SA/CatalogueAndInfo/FreeDownloads/Standards.aspx
The minimum requirements of the compulsory specifications are based on:
- Pre-requisites for food safety - Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and Good Hygiene Practices (GHP).
- Standards and guidelines set by Codex Alimentarius
- National requirements
COMPULSORY SPECIFICATIONS ADDRESS THE FOLLOWING
- Requirements for the factory
- Construction, layout and conditions
- Equipment for production
- Quality of the water used during handling and processing
- Requirements for employees engaged in the handling, preparation, processing, packaging & storage of the product
- Hygienic layout of factory, equipment and processes
- The handling, preparation, processing, packaging and transportation of the product
- Ingredients and Product
- Product specific composition and quality
- Microbiological requirements
- Chemical requirements
- Packing and Packaging material
- Labelling
- Methods of physical, chemical and microbiological evaluation
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