Processed Cereal-based Foods and Baby Foods for Infants and Young Children (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2000 No. 234

FOOD

Processed Cereal-based Foods and Baby Foods for Infants and Young Children (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

Made

11th July 2000

Coming into operation

1st July 2002

The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety(1) in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 15(1), 16(1), 25(1)(a) and (3), 26(3) and 47(2) of the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991(2) and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, having had regard in accordance with Article 47(3A) of the said Order to relevant advice given by the Food Standards Agency and after consultation in accordance with Article 47(3) of the said Order with such organisations as appear to it to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by the Regulations, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Processed Cereal-based Foods and Baby Foods for Infants and Young Children (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 and shall come into operation on 1st July 2002.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Processed Cereal-based Foods and Baby Foods for Infants and Young Children Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997(3).

Amendment of the principal Regulations

2.  The principal Regulations shall be amended as follows—

(a) in paragraph (2) of regulation 1 (citation, commencement and interpretation), at the end of the definition of “the Directive” there shall be inserted “and by Commission Directive 1999/39/EC(4)”; and

(b) in regulation 5 (manufacture and composition of processed cereal-based foods and baby foods)—

(i) at the end of paragraph (c)(ii) “or” shall be deleted, and

(ii) at the end of paragraph (d) there shall be inserted “; or” followed by the following paragraph:

“(e) which—

(i) if it is manufactured as ready for consumption, contains, and

(ii) if it is not so manufactured, would if reconstituted according to its manufacturer’s instructions contain,

residues of any individual pesticide at a level exceeding 0.01 mg/kg.”.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 11th July 2000.

L.S.

D. A. Baker

Senior Officer of the

Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend the Processed Cereal-based Foods and Baby Foods for Infants and Young Children Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 in implementation of Commission Directive 1999/39/EC amending Directive 96/5/EC on processed cereal-based foods and baby foods for infants and young children.

The Regulations extend the prohibitions on manufacture and sale in the 1997 Regulations to food of that nature containing individual pesticide residues above a level of 0.01 mg/kg, measured when ready for use or when reconstituted according to the manufacturer’s instructions (regulation 2(b)), and bring the reference to the 1996 Directive up to date (regulation 2(a)).

(1)

Formerly the Department of Health and Social Services; see S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1), Article 3

(2)

S.I. 1991/762 (N.I. 7) as amended by S.I. 1996/1633 (N.I. 12) and paragraphs 26 to 42 of Schedule 5 and Schedule 6 to the Food Standards Act 1999 c. 28

(3)

S.R. 1997 No. 432 as amended by S.R. 1999 No. 142

(4)

O.J. No. L124, 18.5.99, p. 8