Morocco Working on New Food Packaging Rules
Morocco’s national food safety board plans to introduce new regulations for food product packaging that will impact “all foreign imports,” the Hong Kong Trade Development Council said in a March 10 report. A public consultation period ended in January and…
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no details have yet been released on changes to the rules resulting from public comments nor a release date for the rules, the report said. The new requirements will apply to all of Morocco's trading partners that import, produce or use “food contact materials,” including metals, alloys, paper, cardboard, ceramics, plastics, inks, coatings and “varnishes used on food contact materials,” the report said. Other products impacted include rubber, regenerated cellulose films, pigments and dyes.