Egypt | Standard ES 2613-2 "Shelf Life For Food Products Part: 2 Shelf Life"

Title of document
Ministerial Decree No. 100 /2019 (2 pages, in Arabic) mandating the Egyptian Standard ES 2613-2 "Shelf Life For Food Products Part: 2 Shelf Life" (18 pages, in Arabic).

Description
The Ministerial Decree No. 100/2019 gives the producers and importers a six-month transitional period to abide by the Egyptian Standard ES 2613-2 which partially modified the shelf life for Dairy and its products which are refrigerated at a temperature not exceeding 5ºC (especially Labneh): from 4 months to 6 months. Worth mentioning is that this standard has been formulated according to National Studies and its updates.

Notifying member: Egypt

Notification: G/TBT/N/EGY/212

Objective tag
Protection of human health or safety

Objective
Health and consumer protection.

Agency responsible
Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality 16 Tadreeb El-Modarrebeen St., Ameriya, Cairo – Egypt E-mail: eos@idsc.net.eg/eos.tbt@eos.org.eg Website: http://www.eos.org.eg Tel.: + (202) 22845528 Fax: + (202) 22845504

Timing:

• Submission: 07/05/2019
• Reception: 07/05/2019
• Distribution: 10/05/2019
• Final date for comments: 09/07/2019
• Proposed date of adoption: N/A