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Amendment of regulation 28

7.  In regulation 28 (food for immediate consumption where sold)—

(a)for paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs:

(1) Subject to paragraph (3A) of this regulation, any food which has not been irradiated and—

(a)is not prepacked, and

(b)is sold at a catering establishment for immediate consumption there, and

(c)is not food to which regulation 29 applies,

need not be marked or labelled with any of the particulars specified in regulation 6.

(1A) Subject to paragraph (3A) of this regulation, any food which has been irradiated and—

(a)is not prepacked, and

(b)is sold at a catering establishment for immediate consumption there, and

(c)is not food to which regulation 29 applies,

need not be marked or labelled with any of the particulars specified in regulation 6 except the name of the food.;

(b)in each of paragraphs (2) and (3), at the beginning, for the word “Any” there shall be substituted the words “Subject to paragraph (3A) of this regulation, any”; and

(c)after paragraph (3) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:

(3A) Where any food to which paragraph (1), (1A), (2) or (3) of this regulation applies contains an ingredient which has been irradiated (and which comprises a particular with which, had that food been prepacked, the food would have been required by these Regulations to be marked or labelled), that food shall (subject to regulation 33(1B) to (1D)) be marked or labelled with an indication that it contains that ingredient and the reference within that indication to that ingredient shall include or be accompanied by the word “irradiated” or the words “treated with ionising radiation”..