Section 15: Ensuring quality products
This section is inserted by Act No 34 of 2016, section 7.
consolidated text (as at 2017, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
15. Ensuring quality products
(1) No person shall sell or otherwise deal with or refer to
sugar as white sugar unless such sugar –
(a) is referred to EEC Grades 1 and 2 sugar; and
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(b) has the characteristics specified in MS 193/2016.
(2) All sugars for home consumption which do not fall
within MS 193/2016 shall be considered as raw sugar.
(3) Raw sugar for home consumption shall include –
(a) raw sugar of polarisation not exceeding 99.5;
and
(b) special sugars as may be prescribed.
(4) The Mauritius Standards Bureau shall be responsible
for the testing of samples of sugar to determine whether such
samples qualify as white sugar or raw sugar.
(5) Any importer or refiner, or any other person dealing in
sugar shall, as and when required by the Mauritius Cane Industry
Authority, submit samples of sugar destined for home consumption
for testing to the Mauritius Standards Bureau.
(6) The Mauritius Standards Bureau shall, where it is
satisfied that a consignment of sugar destined for home consumption
responds to the food and hygiene standards of HACCP, issue
a certificate regarding the suitability of the product for human
consumption.
(7) Any sugar which is put on sale shall be labelled by
clearly specifying the following –
(a) its country of origin;
(b) the weight, date of expiry, name of packer and
distributor according to the Consumer Protection
Act and the Legal Metrology Act;
(c) whether it is from cane or beet;
(d) whether it is manufactured, processed or
imported;
(e) whether it is white or raw;
(f) its polarisation and ICUMSA colour; and
(g) details on the certificate of suitability for human
consumption issued by the Mauritius Standards
Bureau.
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(8) The Mauritius Standards Bureau shall take such
measures as it may determine to inform consumers of the quality
characteristics of such sugar being marketed.
(9) In this section –
“EEC” means the European Economic Community;
“HACCP” means the Hazard Analysis Critical Control
Point standard published by the Mauritius Standards
Bureau.