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Perishable Products Export Control Act, 1983 (Act No. 9 of 1983)

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Regulations relating to the Export of Perishable Products, 2025 - effective July 2025

Chapter 8: Post-Harvest Treatment, Loading and Carrying Instructions

Part D: Temperature reporting and temperature deviations

59. Role of the Board

 

(1) The Board, upon receiving temperature information relating to perishable product from cold chain service providers (including shipping lines) in terms of these regulations may cause such information to be made available electronically to such category of person as the Board may in its sole discretion deem appropriate.

 

(2) The Board shall have no obligation to analyse, review or report upon any temperature information or temperature deviation relating to a perishable product received by it from a cold chain service provider and it shall at all times remain the responsibility of the exporter or cold chain service provider (as the case may be) to ensure that all the temperature requirements for such perishable product are at all times strictly adhered to and the applicable protocols (if applicable) are applied correctly and the Board shall bear no liability whatsoever for any loss sustained by any person whom so ever arising from a failure to report any such deviation.

 

(3) Upon the Board being informed in writing by an exporter of a temperature deviation, in the manner envisaged in sub-regulation (1), the Board may take such steps as may appear to it to be reasonably necessary and appropriate. The Board shall however bear no liability whatsoever for any loss sustained by any person whom so ever as a consequence of any steps taken by the Board in good faith.