Section 15: Ensuring quality products
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
(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 includes—
(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;
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(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.
(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.
[S. 15 repealed and replaced by s. 7 of Act 34 of 2016 w.e.f. 1 January 2017.]