Mozambique: Food products must be labelled in Portuguese by July – government

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Mozambique: Food products must be labelled in Portuguese by July – government

7:56 CAT | 16 May 2022

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Shopkeepers have until July to put labels in Portuguese on products sold in Mozambique, announced the National Inspection of Economic Activities (Inae).

“This year is the last in which the government will grant a tolerance until July, for traders to label food products in Portuguese,” said the National Inspector of Economic Activities, Rita Freitas, quoted on Friday by Mozambican news agency AIM.

Freitas was speaking during a training seminar on the legal system of labelling on the packaging of food products.

All goods placed on shop shelves in Mozambique must be identified in the official language of the country, and will no longer be labelled only in foreign languages, she added.

The measure aims to protect the rights of consumers, namely knowing exactly what product they are buying and its characteristics.

Freitas said that goods for sale that were not identified in Portuguese would be removed from the market.

Mozambique imports most of the products consumed in the country from neighbouring South Africa, an English-speaking nation.

Source: Lusa