Prakas on Procedures for Inspection of Imported Food.

This Prakas aims to set forth procedures and rules to guarantee that the imported food complies with the requirements for food quality and safety and food suitability for human consumption in the Kingdom of Cambodia.
According to Article 4, all imported food products must be compliant with the food laws and requirements of the Kingdom of Cambodia. Importers of food products are responsible for the products they import to trade in the Kingdom of Cambodia, ensuring that the products meet the quality, safety and labeling requirements in accordance with national and/or Codex international standards. All imported food products must be inspected in the following form or categories: - Document inspection for all imported food products and this inspection must be done before any other inspection. - Physical inspection or physical control and sample tests for food products classified into groups of food products according to the types of risk (Art.5). The rate of physical inspection, sampling and analysis of the imported food shall be based on the risk approach as assessed by human health risk level, risk factor caused by product, source of production, product’s record of compliance with requirements and other information. All imported food products are divided into three types of risk level: 1. High risk food product 2. Medium risk food product 3. Low risk food product (Art.7).