Regasis Labs

Where we try new ideas in regulatory tech

We want the rules that govern food, health and trade to be easy to find, easy to read and easy to trust. Labs is where we try ideas toward that, in the open, and keep the ones that prove useful.

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Search South African food regulation

Type a word and read the exact words of the law.

What it covers. ZA Search covers the Foodstuffs, Cosmetics and Disinfectants Act 54 of 1972 and what was made under it: 79 instruments, about 1,300 pages. Check any page against the original PDF.

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How Labs works

  1. Try it. Everything here is real, and unfinished on purpose.
  2. Tell us what’s wrong. Spot a mistake in a passage and say so. We’d rather hear it.
  3. We fix it, and say so. Corrections go back into the source, and the change is recorded.

Check the source. Texts are reproduced or converted from public sources and may contain errors. The official Gazette is the source.