REGULATlONS. Belize Agricultural Health Authority [CAP BELIZE AGRICULTURAL HEALTH AUTHORITY , (FISH AND FISHERIES PRODUCTS INSPECTION)

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1 - Beize Agricutura Heath Authority [CAP BELIZE AGRICULTURAL HEALTH AUTHORITY , (FISH AND FISHERIES PRODUCTS INSPECTION) REGULATONS ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS 1. Short tite. 2. Interpretation. 3. Appication. PART I PRELIMINARY PART 11 IMPORT AND EXPORT Inspection. Cooperation with Inspector. Prohibitions. Sef-investigation. Fish Import Permit. Suspension etc., of import permit, etc.. Inspection service fee. Random inspection. Recognition of aboratory. Packing offish, etc.. Attaching numbered tags. Requests for inspection certificate. THE SUBSDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE the Government of Beize.

2 140 CAP.2111 Beize Agricutura Heath Authority Appea to Managing Director. Fee for appea. Bars to re-inspection. Re-inspection at Inspector's instance. Remova of inspection marks, etc.. Processing, etc., of fish, etc., for export. Registeredestabishments to compy withreguations. Persons to be quaified. Vesses must compy with requirements. Requirements for export of ive finfish. Appication for certificate ofregistration. Conditions for issue of icence to non-operator. Term of icence, etc.. Amendment of Certificate, etc.. Inactivated certificate, etc.. Invaidity of certificate, etc.. Temporary certificate. Revocation of certificate. Suspension, etc., of certificate, etc.. Other inspection. Issuing of specia permit. Conditions attached to certificate, etc.. Requirements for unoading, etc.. Requirements for export, etc.. Protection, etc., of processed fish, etc.. Conditions forprocessing, etc., mouscs. Exporting, etc., cans of fish, etc.. Records pertaining to exports of fish, etc.. THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE the Government of Bere.

3 Beize Agricutura Heath Authority [CAP PART 111 LABELLING 44. Marking of can, etc., for canned fish. 45. Marking of container, etc., for fish, etc Miseading mark or abe. 47. Marking, etc., without consent ofmanaging Director. 48. Conditions for marking, etc., with quaity designation, etc.. PART IV CODE MARKINGS 49. Marking of cartons and case. 50. Visibe, etc., code markings Exemptions for permanenty marked containers. PART V QUALITY REQUIREMENTS Processing of obster, etc.. Processing dressed fish. Conditions for producing fiet, etc.. Conditions for producing conch, etc.. Conditions for producing frozen shrimp. Conditions for producing obster meat. Conditions for producing oysters, etc.. Conditions for producing scaops, etc.. Conditions for producing shrimp cocktai. Conditions for curing fish, etc., as picked, etc.. Conditions for exporting picked, etc., fish, etc.. THE SUBSLDMRY LAWS OF BELIZE by the Government Printer. the Government of Beize.

4 142 CAP.2111 Beize Agricutura Heath Authority SCHEDULE I SCHEDULE 1 SCHEDULE 111 SCHEDULE 1V SCHEDULE V SCHEDULE V1 THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE the Government of Bere.

5 Beize Agricutura Heath Authoritv ICAP CHAPTER 211 BELIZE AGRICULTURAL HEALTHAUTHORITY 173f2001. (FISH AND FISHERY PKODUC'I'S INSPEC'I'ION1 REGULATIONS PART I PRELIMINARY [22nd December, 2001.] 1. These Reguations may be cited as the Short tite. BELIZE AGRCULTURALHEALTH AUTHORITY (FISH AND FISHERY PRODUCTS INSPECTION) REGULATIONS. 2. In these Reguations, uness the context otherwise requires- Interpretation. "Act" means the Beize Agricutura Heath Authority Act. CAP "additive" means a food additive specified by the Codex Aimentarius Commission; "aquacuture products" means a fisheq products born and raised in controed conditions unti paced on the market as a foodstuff; "Authority" means the Beize Agricutura Heath Authority estabishedunder section 3 of the Act; "brine" means a soution of common sat (sodium choride) and fresh water, or seawater with or without the addition of sat; THE SUBSLDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE by the Government Printer. the Government of Beize.

6 144 CAP.2111 Beize Agricutura Heath Authority "can" means any hermeticay seaed container; "canncd" fish" mcans any fish or fishcry product that is scacd in a can and is steriized; "certificate of registration" means a certificate issued in accordance with reguation 26 (6); "conveyance" means any vesse, aircraft, motor vehice, cargo container, traier or other means oftransportation of fish, fishery products or containers of fish or fishery products; "corrective action" means the procedure that is to be foowed whenever a deviation fiom a critica imit in a Hazard Anaysis Critica Contro Point Pan occurs or whenever the resuts of monitoring procedures in respect of a prerequisite program pan, or a food safety program for the importing or exporting of fish or fishery products show that there is non-compiance with these Reguations; "critica contro point" means a point in a process operation at which contro is to be appied in order to prevent or eiminate a hazard or reduce it to an acceptabe eve; "critica imit" means the maximum or minimumvaue to which a hazardmust be controed at a critica contro point; "cmstaceans" means a species ofthe cass Cmstacea; "decomposed", with respect to fish or fishery products, means fish or fishery product that have an offensive or objectionabe odour, favour, coour, texture or substance associated with spoiage; THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE the Government of Bere.

7 Beize Agricutura Heath Authoritv ICAP "drainedweight" means the weight ofthe edibe contents of a container of fish or fishery products afier the iquid has been drainedby a method approved by the Managing Director, in consutation with the Minister; "fiets" means- sices of fish fesh of irreguar size and shape that have beenremoved from the carcass of a fish by cuts made parae to the backbone; or (6) sices of fish fesh described in paragraph that have been cut into sections and from which a interna organs, head, fins, bones, except intramuscuar or atera bones, and a discooured fesh have been removed, "finfish" means a species ofthe cass Osteichthyes; "fish" incudes a or any of the varieties of marine or fresh water animas, by whatever description caed; "fish export icence" means a certificate of registration issuedunder reguation 27 (1) that authorizes the hoder to- export ive or processed species ofthe cass Cmstacea; (6) export ive or processed finfish that have been raised in an aquacuture operation; and (c) export ive or processed finfish that have been harvested from the wid; THE SUBSLDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE by the Government Printer. the Government of Beize.

8 146 CAP.2111 Beize Agricutura Heath Authority "fish import permit" means a permit issued in accordance with reguation 8 (1); "fishery products" means a seawater or freshwater animas or parts of such animas, incuding theirroes, excuding aquatic mammas; "food safety program" as it reates to fish or fishery product, means a fish inspection and contro system, that incudes procedures, inspections and records, for the purpose of verifying and documenting the processing of fish and the safety and quaity of fish processed in, exported fi-om or imported into Beize; S.I. 25 of2001. "HACCP Pan" means a Hazard Anaysis Critica Contro Point Pan that is prepared in accordance with the principes of hazard anaysis critica contro point inspection as specified in the Third Schedue of the Beize Agricutura Heath Authority (Food Safety) Reguations, 2001, to ensure contro of hazards during the processing of fish; "hazard" means a bioogica, chemica or physica agent or factor that has the potentia to cause iness or injury to humans in the absence of its contro; "Inspector" means an officia authorized by the Authority to perform the duties of inspection in order to ensure food safety; "ot" with respect to fish and fishery products, means a shipment or part of a shipment of fish or fishery product that is of the same species, is processed in the same manner by the same producer, is packaged in the same size of container and bears the same abe; "Managing Director" means the Managing Director appointed pursuant to section 8 (1) of the Act; "Minister" means the Minister responsibe for Agricuture; THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE the Government of Bere.

9 Beize Agricutura Heath Authoritv ICAP "net weight", with respect to unfrozen or frozen obster meat, means the weight of the edibe contents of a container after the iquid has been drained from the container by a method approved by the Managing Director, in consutation with the Minister, and, with respect to any other fish or fishery products, means the tota weight ofthe edibe contents of a container; "prerequisite program pan" means a series of steps, measures or procedures S.I. 25 0f2001. that are to be appied to ensure compiance with the Beize Agricutura Heath Authority (Food Safety) Reguations, 2001, incuding- estabishment, construction and equipment; (6) estabishment operation and sanitation; (c) the ceaning, sanitizing, ubricating and maintenance of estabishment equipment and faciities, and insect and anima pest contro; (4 fish and fishery products packaging, abeing or ingredient storage rooms or areas in the estabishment; and (e) the system for tracing fish to its first destination; "processing area" means an area of a registered estabishment that is used for the processing or storage of fish or fishery products and any other area designated as a processing area in a food safety program; "producer" means the ast person who processed fish prior to its importation into, or exportation out of, Beize; " product description" means a form on which are recorded the characteristics THE SUBSLDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE by the Government Printer. the Government of Beize.

10 148 CAP.2111 Beize Agricutura Heath Authority of a particuar fish product, incuding- (b) (c) the product name, the source of the raw materia used in producing the product, those characteristics that affect safety and may infuence the growth of disease-causing pathogens, (4 the ingredients that are added to the product, (e) f the packaging of the product, if appicabe, directions to the consumer as to the preparation required for consumption or whether the product is ready-to-eat, ( the product's shef ife, (h) (I) where the product is intended to be sod, and abeing instructions as may be appicabe for safe product distribution and storage, "ready-to-eat fish" means any fish, other than canned fish and ive shefish that does not require preparation except thawing or reheating before consumption; "registered estabishment" means a freezer-factory vesse, barge, onshore THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE the Government of Bere.

11 Beize Agricutura Heath Authoritv ICAP pant, buiding or premise where fish or fishery product are processed or stored for export or oca sae and that is registered pursuant to reguation 26 (6); "registration certificate" means a certificate issued by the Authority to a faciity that certifies that the estabishment meets the conditions ofregistration; "sanitation program" means a written program deveoped in respect of a registered estabishment or in respect of the estabishment, conveyance or equipment of a hoder of a fish export icence, to ensure that the empoyees of the estabishment or the users of the conveyance or equipment, as the case may be, use proper sanitation and hygiene practices, and that the estabishment, grounds or conveyance under the contro ofthe operator or the equipment and conveyances of the hoder are maintained in a cean and sanitary condition and free from serious contamination and insect and anima pests; "serious contamination" means any condition or deficiency that resuts, or is ikey to resut, in an unacceptabe risk to the consumer or in tainted, decomposed or unwhoesome fish or fishery products; "shefish" means a species of bivave mouscs of the cass Bivavia and a marine, carnivorous species of the cass Gastropoda, either shucked or in the she, in whoe or in part, excuding the adductor musces of scaops and the meat of geoducks; "shrimp cocktai" means shrimp meat packed with sauce, spices, seasonings or favourings or any combination thereof; "support area"means an area of aregistered estabishment that is not a processing area and any other area designated as a support area in a food safety program, or an area that is used for- the storage of materias and ingredients used in fish processing; THE SUBSLDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE by the Government Printer. the Government of Beize.

12 50 CAP.2111 Beize Agricutura Heath Authority (b) (c) the maintenance of records for a food safety program; empoyee sanitation, persona hygiene or a change room; "tainted", with respect to fish or fisheryproduct, means fish or fishery product that is rancid or has an abnorma odour or favour; "unwhoesome", with respect to fish or fishery product means fish or fishery product that has in or upon it bacteria of pubic heath significance or substances toxic or aestheticay offensive to man. Appication. 3. (1) Subject to subreguation (2), these Reguations appy ony in respect of fish, fishery products and containers intended for domestic consumption, export or import. (2) Subject to reguation 6 (7), these Reguations do not appy to fish or fishery products that is imported or exported for persona consumption or use. PART I1 IMPORT AND EXPORT Inspection. 4. A fish and fishery products are subject to inspection and an Inspector may take sampes of fish or fishery products free of charge for the purpose of inspection or aboratory anaysis. Cooperation 5. The owner of fish, fishery products or aperson acting on his behaf With Inspector sha make readiy accessibe to an Inspector, any fish, fishery product, documents or containers for which inspection or re-inspection is required under these Reguations. THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE the Government of Bere.

13 Beize Agricutura Heath Authoritv ICAP (1) No person sha import, export or process for export or Prohibitions. domestic consumption or attempt to import, export or process for export or domestic consumption - ro) any fish or fishery product that is tainted, decomposed or unwhoesome or otherwise fais to meet the requirements of these Reguations; or ive oysters, cams, musses or other mouscs or raw products derived from ive oysters, cams, musses or other mouscs or raw products, whether frozen or unfrozen, uness the Managing Director, in consutation with the Minister, is satisfied on the basis of information submitted to the Authority that the waters fiomwhich such shefish are taken and the premises in which they are handed and processed are of such anature as wi ensure that the shefish are whoesome. (2) No person sha import into Beize or attempt to import into Beize any fish uness- the identity ofthe estabishment at which the fish or fishery product is packed and the day, month and year of packing are egiby marked on one end ofthe carton or case in which the containers of fish or fishery products are shipped; (6) in the case of high-risk products, a ist indicating the estabishment and the number THE SUBSLDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE by the Government Printer. the Government of Beize.

14 152 CAP.2111 Beize Agricutura Heath Authority of containers for each production code is provided to an Inspector on request; (c) each container has a abe on which the name of the country of origin is ceary identified; and (4 that person is the hoder of a vaid import permit; and (e) written notification of each shipment of fish or fishery product to be imported or that is imported is provided to an Inspector either prior to the importation or within 48 hours foowing the importation. (3) The notification referred to in subreguation (2)(e) sha set out, in respect of each shipment of fish or fishery product imported or to be imported into Beize and each type of fish or fishery product contained in that shipment- (b) (c) the quantity; the producer; the country of origin; (4 the pace where the fish or fishery product sha be hed or stored on its entry into Beize; and (e) the name, address and teephone number ofthe importer importing the fish or fishery THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE the Government of Bere.

15 Beize Agricutura Heath Authoritv ICAP product into Beize as decared to Beize Customs, the import permit number of the importer and if appicabe, of the agent providing the notification. (4) Subject to subreguation (5), no person sha move or attempt to move fish or fishery product that has been imported into Beize from the pace indicated in the notification referred to in subreguation (2)(e) uness - uness an Inspector determines the fish or S.I. 25 of2001. fishery product meets the requirements of the Beize Agricutura Heath Authority (Food Safety) Reguations, 2001, and these Reguations; or (b) the person is notified by an Inspector that the fish or fishery product does not need to be inspected. (5) Aperson may, with the permission of an Inspector, move fish or fishery product that has been imported into Beize from the pace indicated in the notification referred to in sub-reguation (2)(e) to a pace specified by the Inspector. (6) No person sha import into Beize or attempt to import into Beize any canned fish uness the cans are embossed or otherwise permanenty marked in a code that identifies the name of the estabishment and day, month and year of processing. (7) No person sha import, process or export from Beize any of the foowing species- poisonous fish ofthe foowing famiies- THE SUBSLDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE by the Government Printer. the Government of Beize.

16 154 CAP.2111 Beize Agricutura Heath Authority Q) Tetraodontidae; (ii) (iii) (iv) Moidae; Diodontidae; Canthigasteridae; and (b) fishery products containing biotoxins such as ciguatera toxins or musce-paraysing toxins. Sef-investigation. 7. (1) A person who has imported, exported or processed fish or fishery product for export or domestic consumption and who receives information that questions the safety of fish or fishery product sha investigate the information. (2) If the resuts of the investigation indicate that the fish or fishery product constitutes a hazard to the pubic, the person sha notify the Authority within 24 hours. (3) The Authority sha then cross-check such information and where it confirms such information sha appy the appropriate reguatory action with the aim ofpreventing the pacing on the market of fish or fishery products considered as being a hazard to human heath. Fish Import 8. (1) The Managing Director, in consutation with the Minister, sha ~errmt. issue a fish import permit on receiving an appication and the appicant paying a fee of $10.00, or $ if a risk anaysis and the eaboration of the specific conditions under which the importation is aowed is needed, uness the Managing Director, in consutation with the Minister, has reasonabe S.I. 25 of grounds to beieve that the appicant winot compy with the Beize Agricuhua Heath Authority (Food Safety) Reguations, 2001, or these Reguations. THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE the Government of Bere.

17 Beize Agricutura Heath Authoritv ICAP (2) An import permit is not assignabe and uness otherwise noted, expires 90 days after the date of issue indicated on the permit. (3) An importer of fish or fishery product sha maintain, at an address in Beize and for not ess than three years, a record in Engish of- the name and address ofthe person to whom each shipment of fish or fishery product was shipped from the importer and the date on which the fish or fishery product was shipped; (6) the date and time of a information received that questions the safety of fish or fishery product imported by the hoder of the permit; (c) ifthe information is vaidated on investigation- () a description ofthe information; (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (v$ the date and time it was received; the name, address and teephone number ofthe informant; the method of investigation and the resuts obtained; the corrective actions taken; and the date and time the Authority was notified in accordance with reguation 7 (2); THE SUBSLDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE by the Government Printer. the Government of Beize.

18 156 CAP.2111 Beize Agricutura Heath Authority (4 with respect to canned fish or fishery product- (I) (ii) (iii) the name, address and teephone number of the process authority that deveoped the therma process used; the container type, size and specifications, stye of pack, species packed and if the therma process utiized has not been pubished or described in scientific iterature recognized by the Authority, the steriizing vaue (FO) of the therma process; a statement in writing signed by the representative of the process authority that attests that the therma process resuts in the production of commerciay sterie and safe fish products; (e) with respect to ready-to-eat fish or fishery product- (I) (ii) for a period of one year after the day of the coming into force of these Reguations, evidence of adequate processing; and after the end of the period referred to in subparagraph(i)- THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE the Government of Bere.

19 Beize Agricutura Heath Authoritv ICAP (A) (B) (C) (D) the name, address and teephone number of the person who deveoped the process used; the container type and size, stye of pack, the species packed, the type of process, the description of the process; a statement in writing signed by the person who deveoped the process or that person's re-presentative that attests that the process resuts in the production of safe fish products; and ifthe importer has instituted a food safety program recognized by the Authority- (I) the name, business address, business teephone number and tite ofthe person responsibe for the food safety program for that importer; (11) the ocation of a fies and records for the THE SUBSLDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE by the Government Printer. the Government of Beize.

20 158 CAP.2111 Beize Agricutura Heath Authority food safety program; (111) a description of the standards, monitoring and inspection procedures, anayses and tests that are used in product evauations, and the e v i d e n c e acceptabe to an Inspector that they meet or are equivaent to those in pace in the Authority; (IV) (V) the frequency of monitoring importations of fish or fishery product and evidence that they meet or are equivaent to those in pace in the Authority; sampes of the forms that are used during evauations THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE the Government of Bere.

21 Beize Agricutura Heath Authoritv ICAP and of the forms that are used to record corrcctivc actions; (V) (VIZ) (b) a description of the corrective action pans deveoped; for each importation of fish or fishery product - a description of the fish or fishery product by species, form of processing, producer, size and type of container and the abe: a the evauations conducted and whether or not the product was acceptabe; and (c) any corrective actions taken in respect of product rejections; (VIII) in respect of ingredients and additives- THE SUBSLDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE by the Government Printer. the Government of Beize.

22 160 CAP.2111 Beize Agricutura Heath Authority (b) (IX) (b) (X) a the ingredients and additives that are added to the fish or fishery product; and the resuts of any tests done by or for the importer that verify that the ingredient or additive compies with those requirements; in respect of packaging materias- a the packaging materias used; and documentation that ceary estabishes that the packaging materias meet a appicabe requirements of any aw or standard of Beize; in respect of abes used on packaged fish, a the abes fi-om products that THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE the Government of Bere.

23 Beize Agricutura Heath Authoritv ICAP are imported, the means by which the importer reviews abes to ensure their compiance, and documentation that ceary estabishes that the abes meet a appicabe requirements of Beize nationa standard for abeing; (X) in respect of fish or fishery product shipped by an importer, a description of the system used to trace fish or fishery product to its first destination; and ('I) in respect of any person responsibe for any aspect of the food safety program for the importer, evidence of their training or quaifications in fish or food processing or quaity contro. THE SUBSLDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE by the Government Printer. the Government of Beize.

24 162 CAP.2111 Beize Agricutura Heath Authority (4) Subreguation (3) (4 and (e) do not appy to fish imported fiom a country with which Beize has entered into an agreement regarding the import and cxport of fish or fishcry product if thc agrccmcnt contains provisions by which Beize- (b) recognizes that the fish or fishery product inspection and contro systems in pace in that country are equivaent to those required by these Reguations in respect of canned and ready to eat fish or fishery product; and has access to a information and records that are equivaent to those required by subreguation (3) (4 and (e) and that are hed by the fish or fishery product inspection authority in that country. Suspension 9. (1) The Managing Director, in consutation with the Minister, may etc., of import suspend, revoke or refbse to issue an import permit or export icence where permit, etc.. the Managing Director, in consutation with the Minister, beieves on reasonabe grounds that the hoder of, or the appicant for the permit - (b) (c) has provided fase information to the Managing Director for the purpose of obtaining an import permit or export icence; has faied to provide a written notification required pursuant to reguation 6 (2) (e); has provided fase information to an Inspector in a written notification required THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE the Government of Bere.

25 Beize Agricutura Heath Authoritv ICAP pursuant to reguation 6 (2) (e); (4 has faied to maintain a record in accordance with reguation 8 (3); (e) has outstanding fees payabe under these Reguations; has faied to compy with the requirements of reguation 7; (j$ (h) is not operating a food safety system in accordance with the appicabe requirements of the Beize Agricutura Heath Authority S.I. 25 of (Food Safety) Reguations 2001; or has otherwise faied to meet the appicabe requirements ofthe Beize Agricutura Heath S.I. 25 of Authority (Food Safety) Reguations, 2001, or these Reguations. (2) Where the Managing Director has suspended or revoked an import permit or export icence pursuant to subreguation (), the importer or exporter may, within 60 days after that suspension or revocation, request in writing the Managing Director to determine whetherthe permit or export icence shoud be reinstated. (3) The fee payabe for each inspection that is carried out in the course of a determination pursuant to subreguation (2) is $400. (4) The determination referred to in sub-reguation (2) is fina. THE SUBSLDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE by the Government Printer. the Government of Beize.

26 164 CAP.2111 Beize Agricutura Heath Authority Inspection 10. (1) Subject to subreguation (2), a icensed importer who imports service fee. fish or fishery product into Beize sha pay in respect of the type of product set out in Coumn I of an item of the tabe to this reguation, an inspection service fee, per kiogram of decared weight of fish or fishery product imported, in the amount appicabe to the eve of permit hed by the importer that is set out in Coumn 11, ofthat item. (2) The fee payabe for an inspection service is $50 for each shipment of fish- if the fish being imported is intended for further processing that wi resut in a substantia transformation of the fish; and (6) the fish is being deivered to a registered estabishment. TABLE 1 FEE PER KILOGRAM (BASED ON WEIGHT DECLARED TO BELIZE CUSTOMS) Coumn Coumn 1 Item Type of Product Fish Import Fee 1. Ready-to-eat Canned Fresh Raw mouscan shefish Other 0.10 THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE the Government of Bere.

27 Beize Agricutura Heath Authoritv ICAP (1) Subject to subreguations (2) to (4), any fish or fishery product Random imported by the hoder of a fish import permit into Beize may be subjected on inspection. a random basis to an inspection, by an Inspector, of atype set out in Coumn 1 of an item ofthe tabe to this reguation. (2) Where a type of fish or fishery product produced by aproducer fais to pass a type of inspection set out in the tabe to this reguation, the type of fish or fishery product, the name of the producer and the type of inspection sha be- ( recorded by the nspector on a mandatory import aert ist maintained by the Authority; or (i, reported within 5 days by the importer to an Inspector for the purpose of incusion on a mandatory import aert ist; and (6) shipments or ots ofthat type of fish or fishery product that are produced by that producer and subsequenty imported into Beize sha undergo the same type of inspection unti four consecutive shipments or ots have passed that type of inspection. (3) Where a type of fish or fishery product that is produced by a producer fais to pass a abe evauation inspection, ots of that type of fish or fishery product that are produced by that producer and subsequenty imported or exported fiom Beize sha undergo a abe evauation inspection unti one ot passes the inspection. THE SUBSLDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE by the Government Printer. the Government of Beize.

28 166 CAP.2111 Beize Agricutura Heath Authority (4) Where a type of fish or fishery product that is produced by aproducer is imported into Beize, and that type of fish produced by that producer has not been imported into Beize within the previous two years, that importation sha undergo every type of inspection appicabe to that type of fish. (5) A person who requests that the Authority carry out a type of inspection or testing set out in Coumn 1 of an item of the tabe to this reguation sha pay the appicabe fee set out in Coumn 111 of that item. TABLE 11 Coumn I Item Coumn I1 Type of Inspection* Coumn III Fee ($) 1. Sensory evauation 2. Net content determination 3. Labe evauation (1) Inner container (2) Outer container (3) Cancoding 4. Container integrity evauation* * (1) Cans (2) Other container 5. Histamine E. coi Faeca coifom THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE the Government of Bere.

29 Beize Agricutura Heath Authoritv ICAP Coumn Item Coumn I1 Type of Inspection* Coumn 111 Fee ($) 8. Listeria monocytogenes Samonea species Standard pate count Staph. Aureus Vibrio species Eectrophoresis species identification*" 14. Food additives*" 15. Sodium and potassium* * 16. Heavy metas, other than mercury*" 17. Mercury* * 18. Moisture content ** 19. Pesticides and PCBs** 20. Sat content*" 21. Marine toxins* * 22. Drug residues*" THE SUBSLDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE by the Government Printer. the Government of Beize.

30 168 CAP.2111 Beize Agricutura Heath Authority 24. Watcr activity* * 25. Steriity 45.OO 26. Quaity indices 25.OO "Sampe size to be determined in accordance with Samping Pan1 in Samping Pans for Prepackaged Foods (1969) issued by the Secretariat of the Joint FAOIWHO Food Standards Program, FAO, Rome. **Prices to be determined by the respective officia aboratory designated by the Authority. Recognitionof 12. No person who is the hoder of a HACCP certificate for an aboratory. estabishment sha use a aboratory for the purpose of impementing and compying with their HACCP program uness it has beenrecognized by the Managing Director as being competent to conduct those services or has been accredited by the Beize Bureau of Standards. Packing of fish, 13. Uness otherwise permitted by the Managing Director, fish or fishery etc.. products sha be packed in new, cean, sound containers. Attaching 14. (1) Forthe purpose of preserving the identity of any fish or fishery mrnbered tags. products, an Inspector may detain the fish or fishery products by attaching to any of the fish or fishery products or any container thereof a numbered tag upon which sha be ceary written - the word "hed"; (6) an identification number; THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE the Government of Bere.

31 Beize Agricutura Heath Authoritv ICAP (c) a brief description of the ot detained; (4 the date; and (e) the signature of the Inspector. (2) Where any fish or fishery products are detainedpursuant to subreguation (), the Inspector sha deiver or mai to the owner or his agent a duy competed notice of detention. (3) Where any fish is detained pursuant to subreguation (1) on premises owned by a person who is not the owner of the f ~ or h fishery products, a copy of the notice of detention sha be deivered or maied to that person. (4) No person sha ater, deface or remove a tag attached to any fish or fishery products or container thereof pursuant to subreguation (1) or move, export, se or dispose of any such fish or fishery products or container thereof uness he has obtained areease from an Inspector. (5) Notwithstanding subreguation (4), where it is necessary for any fish or fishery products or container thereof referred to in that subreguation to be moved from one warehouse to another, or the owner of the fish or fishery products or container or his agent has made a reasonabe request for the fish or fishery products or container to be moved under detention, an Inspector may permit such fish or fishery products or container thereof to be moved accordingy. (6) Where an Inspector is satisfied that any fish or fishery products detained pursuant to subreguation (1) meets the requirements of these Reguations, he sha prepare anotice ofreease and deiver or mai one copy thereof to the owner of the fish or his agent and one copy to the person, if any, on whose premises the fish or fishery products were found. THE SUBSLDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE by the Government Printer. the Government of Beize.

32 170 CAP.2111 Beize Agricutura Heath Authority Requests for 15. (1) Where apersonrequests an inspection certificate for fish or inspection fishery products, a duy authorized Inspector of the Authority shacertificate. where the person operates the estabishment in which the fish or fishery products was processed, inspect the processing record of the estabishment to determine whether an inspection ofthe fish or fishery products is required and, if it is required, inspect the fish or fishery products, and (b) in any other case, inspect the fish or fishery products. (2) An Inspector sha issue an inspection certificate for fish or fishery products where- S.I. 25 of S.I. 25 of (b) (c) the Inspector determines that an inspection of the fish or fishery products is not required; the Inspector determines, foowing an inspection of the fish or fishery products, that the fish or fishery products meet the requirements of the Beize Agricutura Heath Authority (Food Safety) Reguations, 2001, and these Reguations; or each consignment of fish or fishery products destined for export must meet the Beize Agricutura Heath Authority (Food Safety) THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE the Government of Bere.

33 Beize Agricutura Heath Authoritv ICAP Reguations, 2001, and these Reguations. Such fish or fishery products must come from approved estabishments, factory vesses or cod stores of the Authority's registered freezer vesses and be accompanied by a numbered origina heath certificate, duy competed, signed, dated and comprising a singe sheet in accordance with the mode in the Fourth Schedue (Reguation 10) of the Beize Agricutura Heath Authority (Food Safety) Reguations, 2001, or in the case of consignments destined for the European Union, the mode specified in Schedue VI. S.I. 25 of200. Schedue VI. (3) A person who requests an inspection certificate for fish or fishery products sha pay an inspection service fee of- $100, where an inspection of the fish is performed; and (6) $25, where an inspection of the fish is not performed. 16. (1) Where a person interested in a decision of an Inspector in Appea to respect of any inspection, grading, marking or other matter under these Managing Reguations is not satisfied with that decision, the person may, within 30 days Director. after such decision, by notice in writing, appea the decision to the Managing Director, who may, subject to reguation 18, order a re-inspection. (2) Where a re-inspection is made pursuant to subreguation (1) and the Managing Director makes a decision as a resut thereof, that decision sha be fma. THE SUBSLDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE by the Government Printer. the Government of Beize.

34 172 CAP.2111 Beize Agricutura Heath Authority Fee for appea. 17. A person who appeas a decision under reguation 16 (1) sha pay the appicabe fee for any type of re-inspection that is ordered under that subreguation. Bars to re- 18. A re-inspection sha not be ordered pursuant to reguation 16 (1) inspection. where- the identity of the fish or fishery products or containers of fish or fishery products in dispute has not been preserved; (6) the request for re-inspection was not made within 30 days after the disputed inspection; (c) the fish or fishery products or containers of fish or fishery products have in or upon them any poisonous or harmfu substance; or (4 the fish or fishery products or containers of fish or fishery products have been previousy re-inspected. Re-ispectio at 19. Where an Inspector has reasonabe grounds to beieve that fish or Inspector's fishery products has deteriorated after the date on which it was inspected or instance. that it otherwise fais to meet the requirements ofthese Reguations, he may again inspect such fish or fishery products. Remova of 20. (1) Where an inspection is made under reguation 19 and the fish marks, or fishery products is foundnot to be ofthe grade marked on the container, G~G.. any inspection marks and quaity designations on the container sha be removed or obiterated and any inspection certificate that may have been issued for the fish or fishery products is void. THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE the Government of Bere.

35 Beize Agricutura Heath Authoritv ICAP (2) No person sha use an inspection certificate if he knows that the certificate is void. 21. (1) No person sha export fish or fishery products, process fish Processing, etc., or fishery products for export or store fish or fishery products for export of fish, etc., for uness the processing or storing ofthat fish or fishery products is carried out in a registered estabishment. (2) Subreguation (1) does not appy in respect of- fish or fisheryproducts imported into Beize by a hoder of an import permit and that are intended for direct sae to consumers without further processing; or (6) fina products produced in a registered estabishment that, before being marketed. exported or made avaiabe to consumers, are temporariy stored in a cod-storage warehouse or other ocation that is not a registered estabishment. (3) For the purpose of subreguation (), "processing" does not incude any of the foowing: the washing, icing or boxing of ive, whoe or dressed unfrozen fish other than- (I) (ii) shefish and echinoderms; fish raised in an aquacuture operation; or THE SUBSLDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE by the Government Printer. the Government of Beize.

36 174 CAP.2111 Beize Agricutura Heath Authority (iii) crustaceans, excuding ive obster or ive crab; (6) the fi-eezing on board a vesse of whoe or dressed fish that are destined for hrther processing in a registered estabishment, other than shefish, echinoderms or crustaceans excuding shrimp; (c) the shucking of scaops to remove adductor musces with or without roe attached, if carried out on board a vesse; (4 the processing ofwhoe or dressedunfiozen fish, or the sating or picking ofwhoe, spit or dressedunfi-ozen fish by fisher packers other than shefish, echinoderms or crustaceans: (e) actions taken by fishers or processors at the time or point of catching, unoading, handing, hoding or transporting fish to preserve its quaity and safety before deivery to a registered estabishment for the purpose of processing, storage or inspection before export, if such actions are done in accordance with these Reguations. (4) fthe Managing Director, in writing, informs a fisher-packer who carries out an activity described in subreguation (3) (4 that there is serious contamination on board the vesse or onshore in the estabishment where that activity is conducted: THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE the Government of Bere.

37 Beize Agricutura Heath Authoritv ICAP no person sha process any fish on board that vesse or onshore in that estabishment; and (6) no person sha export or attempt to export any fish that has been processed in that vesse or estabishment. 22. No person sha operate aregistered estabishment uness it meets the Registered requirements of these Reguations. estabishments to compy with Reguations. 23. No person sha, uness they have job experience or quaifications that Persons to be meets the appicabe requirements set out by the appropriate competent body- quaified. perform or supervise a product preservation process; or (6) supervise the deveopment or impementation of a HACCP Program. 24. No person sha use a vesse for fishing or for transporting fish or Vesses must fishery products uness the vesse meets the appicabe requirements of Schedue compy with 111. requirements. Schcduc No person sha export ive finfish raised in an aquacuture operation Requirements uness a preparation of the finfish is carried out in aregistered estabishment or for expo* of ive by the hoder of a fish export icence. finfish. 26. (1) An appication for a certificate of registration for an Appicationfor estabishment sha be made to the Managing Director, be accompanied by the certificate of appicabe fees referred to in subreguations (3) and (4) and, subject to registration. subreguation (2), sha contain- THE SUBSLDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE by the Government Printer. the Government of Beize.

38 176 CAP.2111 Beize Agricutura Heath Authority (b) (c) the h11 business name, business address and business teephone number of the appicant and if appicabe, the fu names ofpartners or Officers ofthe company; a description of the types of process operations intended to be conducted; the types of fish intended to be produced, stored or exported; (4 aproduct description of eachtype of fishery product intended to be produced, stored or exported; (e) aprocess fow diagram that identifies each step in the process operation for each type of fishery product; and f a detaied diagram ofthe estabishment. (2) The Managing Director may not require an appicant to provide the information referred to in subreguation ()(c) to m, if it his been previousy submitted to the Authority andthere has been no change to the information. (3) The fee that is payabe for the registration of an estabishment with processing areas of a tota size set out in coumn 1 of an item oftabe 111 to this reguation is the amount set out in Coumn 2 ofthat item. (4) In addition to the fee referred to in subreguation (3), the fee that is payabe for the registration of an estabishment with processing areas of a tota size greater than 300 m2 is the amount set out in Coumn 2 of an item THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE the Government of Bere.

39 Beize Agricutura Heath Authoritv ICAP of Tabe I11 to this reguation for each process operation set out in Coumn 1 of that item that is intended to be conducted. (5) Fees and charges referred to in subreguations (3) and(4) sha be paid in accordance with the process outined in Part 3 of Schedue V. (6) The Managing Director sha, in consutation with the Minister, issue a certificate ofregistration to an estabishment if- the estabishment and its processing and support areas meet the requirements set out Schedue I. in Schedues 1 and 11; Schedue 11. (6) the estabishment is free from serious contamination; (c) the appicant has a food safety program that consists of prerequisite Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), Sanitation Standard Operation Procedures Program (SSOP) and a HACCP Program that meets the requirements of subreguation (8) in respect ofthe processing, storing or exporting of fish or fishery products; and (4 the Managing Director has no reasonabe grounds to beieve that the appicant wi not compy with the Beize Agricutura Heath S.I. 2s 0f2001. Authority (Food Safety) Reguations, 2001, or these Reguations. (7) Notwithstanding subreguation (6), the Managing Director sha, in consutation with the Minister, issue a certificate of registration to an THE SUBSLDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE by the Government Printer. the Government of Beize.

40 178 CAP.2111 Beize Agricutura Heath Authority estabishment that is a food processing faciity if a ofthe foowing conditions are met: (b) it is registered in accordance with any Act in Beize, the estabishment has a food inspection and contro program that is equivaent to a HACCP Program; (c) the requirements set out in subreguation (1) and subreguation (6), (b) and (d) are met. (8) A food safety program referred to in subreguation (6) (c) for use in an estabishment sha- comprise- ( a prerequisite program pan (GMPs, SSOPs); (ii) (iii) a hazard anaysis that identifies each hazard that is ikey to occur for each type of fish or fishery product intended to be produced in each process operation; ifthe hazard anaysis has identified hazards, a HACCP Pan in which a critica contro points, critica imits, monitoring procedures used at critica contro points, frequencies of THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE the Government of Bere.

41 Beize Agricutura Heath Authoritv ICAP monitoring procedures and corrective actions are specified; and (iv) a sanitation program that incudes requirements regarding the protective cothing to be worn by empoyees for the tasks they perform; (b) meet the appicabe requirements set out by the Fisheries Department. (9) An operator of a registered estabishment sha- (b) (c) compy with a the appicabe provisions of the Beize Agricutura Heath Authority (Food Safety) Reguations, 2001, and these Reguations; impement and compy with the food safety program; adhere to a the conditions of the certificate of registration; S.I. 25 of200. (4 ensure that the estabishment's food safety program meets the appicabe requirements; (e) on request of an Inspector, make avaiabe in a readiy accessibe ocation a copy of the food safety program and a records of, and amendments to, the food safety program; and THE SUBSLDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE by the Government Printer. the Government of Beize.

42 180 CAP.2111 Beize Agricutura Heath Authority S.I. 25 of f conduct areview ofthe food safety program each time it is found to be not in compiance with sub-reguation (8) and, in any case, at east once per year or as outined in the First Schedue (Reguations 2 and4) ofthe Beize Agricutura Heath Authority (Food Safety) Reguations (1 0) An operator of a registered estabishment sha maintain, at an address in Beize and for not ess than three years, a record in Engish comprising- the name, business address, business teephone number and tite of the person responsibe for the food safety program at the estabishment; (6) the ocation of a fies and records in respect of the food safety program; (c) in respect of each critica contro point specified in the HACCP Pan- (I) (ii) a description of the critica imits, monitoring procedures and verification procedures that are used; the frequency of the monitoring and verification procedures, sampes of the forms that are used during inspections and ofthe forms that are used to record corrective actions: THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE the Government of Bere.

43 Beize Agricutura Heath Authoritv ICAP (iii) (v) the corrective actions; the resuts of every inspection conducted in accordance with monitoring and verification procedures and any corrective actions taken; (v4 the product preservation processes to be used and, for each process the expected resuts as specified in the food safety program; and (vii) the resuts obtained by each product preservation process; (4 in respect of shefish- ( the common name of the shefish; (i;) (iii) (iv) (v) the quantity by weight ofthe shefish deivered to the estabishment; the ocation where the shefish was harvested; the date on which the shefish was harvested; the name, address and teephone number of the person who harvested the shefish; THE SUBSLDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE by the Government Printer. the Government of Beize.

44 182 CAP.2111 Beize Agricutura Heath Authority (v) (vii) the method of transport and the date on which the shefish was deivered to thc cstabishmcnt, incuding dctais of the method and conditions of storage before and after deivery; the manner in which, and the date on which, the shefish was processed in the estabishment; and (vii) the date on which the shefish was shipped from the estabishment and the name and address of the person to whom it was shipped; (e) in respect of every prerequisite program pan- (I) (ii) a description of the pans and monitoring procedures that are used; the frequency of the monitoring procedures; and f (iii) the corrective actions taken; a description of the system used to trace fish to their first shipping destination; ( in respect of each shipment of fish or fishery product- (I) the name and address of the person THE SUBSIDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE the Government of Bere.

45 Beize Agricutura Heath Authoritv to whom each shipment was sent: (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (vi) thc typc of fish or fishcry products: the quantity of fish or fishery products-. the method of transportxtion, incuding manifest and container numbers or other information that is sufficient to identify or trace the ocation of the fish or fishery products; the date on which the fish or fishery products was shipped. and the date on which the fish or fishery products was processed; (h) the date and time when the operator of the registered estabishment received information questioning the safety of fish or fishery products processed or exported by the operator, if the information referred to in paragraph (h) is vaidated on investigation, a description ofthe information, the date and time when it was received, the date and time the information was vaidated, the name, address and teephone number of the informant, the method of investigation and the resuts obtained, the corrective actions taken, and THE SUBSLDIARY LAWS OF BELIZE by the Government Printer. the Government of Beize.