The Meat Products (Wales) Regulations 2004

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations —

“catering establishment” (“sefydliad arlwyo”) has the meaning assigned to it by the Food Labelling Regulations 1996(1);

“cooked” (“wedi'i goginio”), in relation to a food, means subjected to a process of cooking throughout the whole food so that the food is sold for consumption without further cooking, and “uncooked”(“heb ei goginio”) shall be construed accordingly;

“cured meat”(“cig wedi'i halltu”) means a food consisting of meat and curing salt, whether or not the food also contains any other ingredient;

“curing salt” (“halen halltu”) means sodium chloride, potassium chloride, sodium nitrate, potassium nitrate, sodium nitrite or potassium nitrite, whether alone or in any combination, except that sodium chloride or potassium chloride alone or a mixture of sodium chloride and potassium chloride alone is to be regarded as a curing salt when used in a meat product only if used in sufficient quantity to have a significant preserving effect on the meat product;

“ingredient” (“cynhwysyn”) has the meaning assigned to it by the Food Labelling Regulations 1996;

“meat” (“cig”) has the meaning assigned to it by Directive 2000/13/EC of the European Parliament and the Council on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the labelling, presentation and advertising of foodstuffs(2), as amended by Commission Directive 2001/101/EC(3);

“meat product” (“cynnyrch cig”) means any food, other than one specified in Schedule 1, which consists of meat or which contains as an ingredient, or as ingredients, any of the following: meat; mechanically recovered meat; or, from any mammalian or bird species recognised as fit for human consumption, heart, tongue, the muscles of the head (other than the masseters), the carpus, the tarsus, or the tail;

“mechanically recovered meat”(“cig wedi'i adfer yn fecanyddol”) has the same meaning as in Commission Directive 2001/101/EC;

“port health authority”(“awdurdod iechyd porthladd”) means in relation to any port health district in Wales constituted by order under section 2(3) of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984(4), a port health authority for that district constituted by order under section 2(4) of that Act;

“sell” (“gwerthu”) includes offer or expose for sale or have in possession for sale, and “sale” (“gwerthiant”) shall be construed accordingly; and

“ultimate consumer” (“defnyddiwr olaf”) has the meaning assigned to it by the Food Labelling Regulations 1996.

(1)

S.I. 1996/1499; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1998/1398, 1999/747, 1136, 1483.

(2)

OJ No. L109, 6.5.2000, p.29.

(3)

OJ No. L310, 28.11.2001, p.19.

(4)

1984 c. 22.