The Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Scotland) Regulations 2012

PART 10 General and supplementary

Consequential amendment to the Food Safety (Sampling and Qualifications) Regulations 1990

28.  In the Food Safety (Sampling and Qualifications) Regulations 1990(1), in Schedule 1 (provisions to which those Regulations do not apply)—

(a) omit the title and reference of the Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Scotland) Regulations 2009(2); and

(b) for the title and reference of the Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Scotland) Regulations 2010(3) substitute the title and reference of these Regulations.

Amendment to the Food Labelling Regulations 1996

29.—(1) The Food Labelling Regulations 1996(4) are amended in accordance with paragraph (2).

(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation), for the definition of “ingredient” substitute—

““ingredient” means—

(a)

any substance, including any additive or food enzyme and any constituent of a compound ingredient, which is used in the preparation of a food and which is still present in the finished product, even if in altered form; or

(b)

any released active substance within the meaning of Article 3(f) of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 450/2009 on active and intelligent materials and articles intended to come into contact with food,

and a “compound ingredient” shall be composed of two or more such substances;.”.

(3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) expire on 13th December 2014.

Revocations

30.  The Regulations specified in Schedule 2 are revoked.

(1)

S.I. 1990/2463, amended by S.S.I. 2007/471 and 2010/327; there are other amending instruments but none are relevant.

(2)

S.S.I. 2009/30, as amended by S.S.I 2010/327 and 2011/100.

(3)

S.S.I. 2010/327.

(4)

S.I. 1996/1499. The definition of ingredient was inserted by S.S.I. 2010/327.