Amendments to the Food Labelling Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996
17. The following paragraph shall be inserted between paragraphs (4) and (5) of regulation 26 (small packages and certain indelibly marked bottles)—
“(4A) Any food which—
(a)by virtue of paragraph (1) or (3) alone is exempted from the requirement to be marked or labelled with a list of ingredients;
(b)contains any ingredient which has been irradiated; and
(c)is not prepared for patients requiring sterile diets under medical supervision,
shall be marked or labelled with an indication that it contains that ingredient, and in such a case the reference within that indication to that ingredient shall include or be accompanied by “irradiated” or “treated with ionising radiation”.”.