Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2003 No. 535

FOOD

Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Made

16th December 2003

Coming into operation

2nd February 2004

The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety(1) in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 15(1)(a), 16(1), 25(1) and (3) and 47(2) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to, 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 both as required by Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council(3) laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety and in accordance with Article 47(3) and (3B) of the said Order, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 2nd February 2004.

Amendment of the Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

2.  In Schedule 3 to the Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996(4), in the entry for E425, for the words in the third column there shall be substituted “Foods in general (except those referred to in Schedules 6, 7 and 8, and jelly confectionery, including jelly mini-cups)”.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 16th December 2003.

L.S.

Denis McMahon

A Senior Officer of the

Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations, which amend the Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995, as already amended (“the principal Regulations”), implement European Parliament and Council Directive 2003/52/EC (O.J. No. L10, 17.7.2003, p. 23) amending Directive 95/2/EC (O.J. No. L61, 18.3.1995, p. 1) as regards the conditions of use for a food additive, E425 Konjac.

These Regulations provide for E425 Konjac to be used in foodstuffs in general (except in certain foods as are specified in the principal Regulations) but not in jelly confectionery. Jelly confectionery includes jelly mini-cups.

(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)

O.J. No. L31, 1.2.2002, p. 1

(4)

S.R. 1996 No. 50 as amended by S.R. 1997 No. 340, S.R. 1999 No. 244, S.R. 2001 Nos.46 and 419 and S.R. 2003 No. 158