2022 No. 342
Food

The Processed Cereal-based Foods and Baby Foods for Infants and Young Children (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2022

Made
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
Coming into force
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 16(1)(a) and (e) of the Food Safety Act 19901 and all other powers enabling them to do so.
The Scottish Ministers have had regard to relevant advice given by Food Standards Scotland in accordance with section 48(4A) of the Food Safety Act 19902.
There has been consultation as required by Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety3.

Citation and commencement1.

These Regulations may be cited as the Processed Cereal-based Foods and Baby Foods for Infants and Young Children (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2022 and come into force on 18 January 2023.

Amendment of the Processed Cereal-based Foods and Baby Foods for Infants and Young Children (Scotland) Regulations 20042.

(1)

The Processed Cereal-based Foods and Baby Foods for Infants and Young Children (Scotland) Regulations 20044 are amended as follows.

(2)

In schedule 4 (nutritional substances)—

(a)

in paragraph 1 (vitamins), in the entry for “Folate”, after “Folic acid” insert “Calcium-L-methylfolate”,

(b)

in paragraph 4 (salts of minerals and trace elements)—

(i)

in the entry for “Iron”, after “Ferrous carbonate” insert “Ferrous bisglycinate,

(ii)

in the entry for “Zinc”, after “Zinc acetate” insert “Zinc chloride”.

MAREE TODD
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend schedule 4 of the Processed Cereal-based Foods and Baby Foods for Infants and Young Children (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (“the 2004 Regulations”) to add calcium-L-methylfolate, ferrous bisglycinate and zinc chloride to the list of nutritional substances set out there.

The effect of this amendment is that these substances may be added in the manufacture of any processed cereal-based food or baby food (regulation 6(1) of the 2004 Regulations). Additionally, where a processed cereal-based food or baby food is labelled with the average quantity of these substances, this must be done in a manner which complies with regulation 8(2) of the 2004 Regulations.