Import of Vegetables, fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid.
Import of tomatoes prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid
All countries
* Pre-Market Approval is required.
Tomato product includes -
(a) canned tomato;
(b) tomato juice;
(c) tomato puree;
(d) tomato paste; and
(e) tomato sauce.
(1) Processed vegetable includes -
(a) dried or dehydrated vegetable;
(b) frozen vegetable;
(c) salted vegetable;
(d) dried salted vegetable;
(e) canned vegetable; and
(f) vegetable juice.
(2) Vegetable shall be the clean and sound edible part of a herbaceous plant commonly used as food.
Authorisation: No person shall import, manufacture, process, store, pack, offer for sale or sell any tomato product which does not comply with the standards specified in regulations 230 to 234.
Prohibition: No person shall import, manufacture, process, store, pack, offer for sale or sell any fresh vegetable or processed vegetable which does not comply with the standards specified in regulations 237 to 245.
No person shall engage in the canning of any tomato product or process any vegetable, on the same premises where meat, poultry or fish products are processed or canned.
Exemptions:
"Canned tomato -(a) shall be the product prepared from clean, sound, ripe and fresh tomato sealed in a container and processed by heat to prevent spoilage;
(b) may contain sugar, salt, tomato juice or puree;(c) may contain nisin, where the pH of the canned tomato is less than 4.5; and
(d) may contain calcium chloride, sulphate or citrate in a proportion not exceeding
800 milligram per kilogram, calculated as calcium.
Tomato juice -
(a) shall be the liquid and
suspended fine material expressed from clean, sound and ripe tomato sealed in a container and processed by heat to prevent
spoilage;
(b) shall be free from seeds, skin and other coarse material;
(c) shall contain not less than 180 milligram of
ascorbic acid per litre ; and (d) may contain added salt, sugar, spices or ascorbic acid.
Tomato puree -
(a) shall be the product resulting from the concentration of the screened or strained fleshy and liquid portions of clean, sound and ripe tomato sealed in a container and processed by heat to prevent spoilage;
(b) shall contain not less than 8% of soluble salt-free solids; and
(c) may contain nisin whenever the pH of the tomato puree is less than 4.5.
Tomato paste -
(a) shall be the product resulting from the concentration of the screened fleshy and liquid portions of clean, sound and ripe tomato sealed in a container and processed by heat to prevent spoilage;
(b) shall contain not less than 25% tomato solids;
(c) may contain salt; and
(d) may contain nisin whenever the pH of such tomato paste is less than 4.5.
Tomato sauce or ketchup -
(a) shall be sauce prepared from clean, sound and ripe tomato free from tamarind;
(b) shall contain not less than 4% of non-sugar organic solids; and
(c) may contain sugar, salt, vinegar, acetic acid, onions, garlic, spices or other condiments;
Fresh vegetable
(1) Fresh vegetable shall be vegetable which is not processed and shall not be withered, shriveled, discoloured or infested with or by insects, worms and moulds.
(2) No person shall store, expose for sale or sell fresh vegetable intended for human
consumption -
(a) unless the vegetable is kept on tables or stalls; and
(b) in or besides a public convenience, in or besides a place where noxious substances are emitted or in or besides any place which is in an insanitary condition.
Dried or dehydrated vegetable/ Dried vegetable or dehydrated vegetable -
(a) shall be the raw edible part of vegetable dehydrated by artificially induced conditions or naturally;
(b) shall contain not more than 8% of moisture; and (c) may contain permitted preservative as provided in the Twelfth Schedule; and (d) may contain any permitted colouring substance listed in the Eighteenth Schedule.
Frozen vegetable Frozen vegetable -
(a) shall be fresh vegetable that is maintained in a frozen condition for a continuous period at a temperature of minus 18°C or less, or any other temperature approved in food technology; and
(b) shall not be thawed out before sale.
Salted vegetable Salted vegetable -
(a) shall be fresh vegetable treated with salt; and
(b) may contain permitted preservative as provided in the Twelfth Schedule; and
(c) may contain any permitted flavour enhancer listed in the Twenty-Sixth Schedule
Dried salted vegetable Dried salted vegetable -
(a) shall be fresh vegetable treated with salt, and dried by artificially induced conditions or naturally;
(b) shall contain not more than 8% moisture; and
(c) may contain permitted preservative as provided in the Twelfth Schedule; and
(d) may contain any permitted flavour enhancer as listed in the Twenty-Sixth Schedule.
Canned vegetable
(1) Canned vegetable - (a) shall be the vegetable product prepared from mature, fresh and sound vegetable, sealed in airtight containers and processed by heat; and
(b) may contain other food, provided the other food does not exceed 50 % of the mixture.
Canned peas
(1) Canned peas may either be canned fresh peas or canned processed dried peas.
(2) Canned fresh peas -
(a) shall be fresh garden peas with or without salt;
(b) shall be packed in hermetically sealed containers;
(c) shall be sterilised by heat; and
(d) may contain any permitted colouring substance listed in the Eighteenth Schedule.
(3) Processed dried peas -
(a) shall be the product obtained by canning prepared dried peas with or without the addition of salt;
(b) shall be packed in hermeticaly sealed containers;
(c) shall be sterilised by heat;
(d) may contain any permitted colouring substance listed in the Eighteenth Schedule; and
(e) may contain permitted food conditioner as provided in Forty-First, Forty-Fifth and Forty-Sixth Schedules.
Special labelling requirement for processed dried peas:
No person shall import, manufacture, process, pack, store, offer for sale or sell a package containing processed dried peas unless, in compliance with regulation 3 -
(a) the words "PROCESSED DRIED PEAS" are conspicuously mentioned on the
label;
(b) the label does not bear any statement or pictorial design indicating or suggesting
that the peas are fresh garden peas; and (c) the label does not bear any pictorial reproduction of peas in the pod.
Vegetable juice Vegetable juice -
(a) shall be the liquid product of one or more vegetables; and
(b) shall not contain fruit juice and herbal tea.
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Clearance of Imported Consignment at Port of Entry.
Health Clearance from the Ministry of Health to be forwarded to Mauritius Revenue Authority to authorize delivery from customs/bonds.
A. Compulsory Documents:
B. Apart from the above-mentioned compulsory documents, additional documents (if applicable) to be attached, e.g.,
