New Draft Regulations on Organic Production (October 2001)

Section 3:  Restriction on the sale of organically produced products

(1)        No person shall sell organically produced products in the Republic of South Africa --

(a)        unless such products comply with the general standards referred to in regulation 4;

(b)        unless such products from plant origin comply with the standards referred to in regulation 5;

(c)        unless such products from animal origin comply with the standards referred to in regulation 6;

(d)        unless such products comply with the bee keeping practices referred to in regulation 7;

(e)        unless such products comply with the processing and handling practices referred to in regulation 8;

(f)         unless the pest and disease control practices referred to in regulation 9 have been followed;

(g)        unless the cleaning, disinfection and sanitising practices referred to in regulation 10 have been followed;

(h)        unless such products are labelled and marked in the manner referred to in regulation 11;  and

(i)         unless such products have been inspected and certified as organic as refer­red to in regulation 12.

(2)        The executive officer may exempt a person in writing, entirely or partially and on such conditions as he or she deems necessary, from the provisions of subregulation (1).

___________________________________________________________________________

Go to next section:  General standards for organically produced products