GOVERNMENT NOTICE
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
NO. R.556 7 May 2004
FOODSTUFFS, COSMETICS AND DISINFECTANTS ACT, 1972 (ACT NO. 54 OF 1972)
REGULATIONS GOVERNING MICROBIOLOGICAL STANDARDS FOR FOODSTUFFS AND RELATED MATTERS: AMENDMENT
The Minister of Health intends, in terms of section 15(1) of the Foodstuffs, Cosmetics and Disinfectants Act, 1972 (Act No. 54 of 1972) to make the regulations in the schedule.
Interested persons are invited to submit any substantiated comments or representations on the proposed regulations to the Director-General of Health, Private Bag X828, Pretoria, 0001 (for the attention of the Director: Food Control), within two months of the date of publication of this notice.
SCHEDULE
Definitions
1. In these regulations “the Regulations” means the regulations published under Government Notice No. R. 692 of 16 May 1997, as amended by Government Notice No. R. 427 of 5 May 2000, Government Notice No. R. 490 of 8 June 2001 and Government Notice No. R. 1588 of 20 December 2002.
Amendment of Annexure A of the Regulations
2. The following Annexure A is hereby substituted for the existing Annexure A to the regulations.
ANNEXURE A
MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS
| COLUMN 1 | COLUMN 2 |
Micro-organisms |
Standard test methods |
Bacillus cereus………………………………. Viable Clostridium perfringens……………. Coliforms………………………………….. Viable Salmonella…………………………. Vibrio parahaemolyticus…………………… |
SANS 7932: 1993
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DR ME TSHABALALA-MSIMANG
MINISTER OF HEALTH