ORDER OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

of July 3, 2007 No. 774

About approval of the Technical regulation "Sugar. Production and sale"

According to the Law on foodstuff No. 78-XV of March 18, 2004 (The official monitor of the Republic of Moldova, 2004, Art. No. 83-87, 431), with subsequent changes and amendments, and the Marine life protection act of the rights of consumers No. 105-XV of March 13, 2003 (repeated publication: The official monitor of the Republic of Moldova, 2011, No. 176-181, of the Art. 513), with subsequent changes and amendments:

1. Approve the Technical regulation "Sugar. Production and sale" (is applied).

2. To impose control over the implementation of this resolution on the National agency on safety of foodstuff.

 

Countersign: Minister of Agriculture and food industry

Anatoliye Gorodenko

Minister of Economy and Trade

Igor Dodon

Minister of Health

Ion Ababy

Approved by the Order of the Government of the Republic of Moldova of July 3, 2007 , No. 774

Technical regulation "Sugar. Production and sale"

I. Scope

1. Technical regulation "Sugar. Production and sale" (further - the Technical regulation) establishes the minimum requirements on quality, food safety, representation and informing consumers which shall be observed in case of production and/or sale of the sugar intended for consumption by the population, both domestic, and import production.

2. The requirements provided by this Technical regulation do not extend to sugar which goes as transit goods through the country or is on temporary storage if does not pose threat for human health or the environment.

II. Terminology

3. In this Technical regulation the used terms mean the following:

sugar - foodstuff in the form of sucrose with the impurity extracted or which are formed in the course of conversion of vegetable sacchariferous raw materials;

sugar beet - the sugar received from sugar beet;

cane sugar - the sugar received from sugar cane or reed raw sugar;

granulated sugar - sugar for industrial conversion with mass fraction of 99,55 sucrose of % (in terms of solid);

refined sugar - white sugar with mass fraction of sucrose is not lower than % 99,85 (in terms of solid);

sugar crystal - sugar in the form of separate crystals;

the sugar pressed - sugar in the form of separate pieces of the certain sizes made by pressing;

sugar-powder - the sugar powdered by razmelcheniye of crystals of sugar;

sugar brown - sugar crystal and cleared light brown color with mass fraction of sucrose is not lower than % 98,0 (in terms of solid).

III. Products included in the regulated area

4. This Technical regulation establishes the minimum requirements on quality and informing consumers to which there shall correspond products and products provided in the following table.

Products code according to the Commodity nomenclature of the Republic of Moldova	Product name
1701	Sugar reed or beet and chemically net sucrose, in firm condition

 

IV. Main requirements

5. Producers of sugar shall provide use of the best practice, take effective measures for quality assurance, food safety, forms of representation and informing on the products placed in trade for consumption by the population according to Codex Alimentarius Regulations.

6. Quality and food safety assume ensuring compliance with the established requirements throughout all cycle of production, storage and realization.

7. Quality and food safety shall be reached and monitorizirovana by means of quality management system of products and methods which allow to reveal systematically potential risks and to identify the producer, lot of products, date of production, quantity, type and product quality.

8. Producers of sugar shall provide storage of results of registration which allow to establish movement of raw materials for identification of products for 3 years, and if necessary to provide documentary evidences of observance of the requirements provided by this Technical regulation.

9. Placement, construction and reorganization of the companies for production of sugar and their auxiliary objects need to be performed according to requirements of the current legislation.

10. The equipment and reservoirs which come into contact with sugar shall be manufactured of the materials which are not making toxic impact in case of their use according to the requirements established by the central industry body of public management in the field of health care.

11. The companies for production of sugar shall be provided with instrumentations for the measurement of weight, humidity, temperature and other parameters influencing quality and safety of the raw materials used in production process and sugar sales.

12. Materials of which instrumentations are manufactured in zone of contact with auxiliary materials and sugar shall conform to requirements of the current legislation.

13. Employees of the companies for sugar production who directly or indirectly contact to sugar shall follow strictly the rules established by the central industry body of public management in the field of health care.

14. Use of additives in case of production of sugar is allowed only on permission of the central industry body of public management in the field of health care according to the procedure, established by it.

15. Production of sugar is performed on the basis of the technological instruction approved in accordance with the established procedure.

16. The sugar intended for consumption by the population depending on the raw materials used in case of its production is classified on:

a) sugar from sugar beet;

b) sugar from sugar cane.

17. Depending on production method the sugar intended for consumption by the population is classified on:

a) sugar crystal;

b) the sugar pressed;

c) sugar-powder.

18. Depending on quality indicators sugar crystal is subdivided into three categories:

extra white sugar – the white sugar refined for food consumption with mass fraction of sucrose is at least % 99,85 (in terms of solid);

white sugar – white sugar of standard quality for food consumption or as raw materials for the food industry;

sugar semi-white – sugar for food consumption or as raw materials for the food industry, with mass fraction of sucrose is at least % 99,55 (in terms of solid).

19. The sugar pressed depending on qualitative indexes is subdivided into 3 categories:

a) the first;

b) the second;

c) third.

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