South Africa: New Requirements Expected for Kosher Halal and Organic Food Products

  |   Attaché Report (GAIN)   |   SF2024-0019
The South African Department of Agriculture is in the process of finalizing requirements related to “control management systems,” which may include additional requirements of documentation to support label claims for imported food products. The aim of the regulations is to require producers of both domestic and imported food to substantiate the control management system under which they claim their products were produced.

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