Guideline for Transportation of Foods, no. FSQA/GL 3 of 2023.

These Guidelines, implementing provisions of the Food Safety and Quality Act, 2011, aim at ensuring safe transportation of food and at discouraging and preventing practices during food transportation that create food safety risks, such as failure to properly refrigerate food, use of inappropriate transport vessel for the transportation of food, inadequate cleaning of vehicles between loads, and failure to properly handle and protect food. Therefore, these Guidelines assist those involved in the shipment and distribution of food to achieve the objective of protecting the food from contamination and spoilage during transport. The Guidelines apply to all forms of transportation of foods, beverages and their ingredients including food packaging materials. The Guidelines concern: responsibilities of parties involved in transportation, including cleaning and disinfecting the food transportation unit; cleanliness of transportation unit; maintenance of adequate food temperatures.