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Flour and Wheatenmeal Act, 1956.

Country/Territory
Ireland
Document type
Legislation
Date
1956 (2000)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Long title
An Act to regulate the production, sale and use of flour and wheatenmeal, to control the millers' prices for those commodities and to provide for other matters connected with the matters aforesaid.
Subject
Food & nutrition
Keyword
Food quality control/food safety Agricultural commodities Cereals/grains/rice Inspection Internal trade Fraud
Geographical area
Atlantic Ocean Islands, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, North Atlantic, North-East Atlantic, Northern Europe
Abstract

All flour produced at a licensed mill, except flour produced in accordance with a permit, shall be straight-run, flour. All wheatenmeal produced at a licensed mill, except wheatenmeal produced in accordance with a permit, shall be standard wheatenmeal. All flour or wheatenmeal produced at a permitted mill, except flour or wheatenmeal produced in accordance with a permit, shall be composed of not less than the prescribed percentage of the wheat from which it is produced. (The Minister may prescribe the proportions of home-grown wheat and imported wheat of which millers' grist is to be composed for the production of flour or. Every person who is the holder of a milling licence or a milling (home-grown wheat) permit in respect of a mill shall ensure that this section is complied with in respect of the mill (sect. 6). Except in accordance with a permit, no person shall, in cleaning a bulk of wheat for the purpose of milling, remove from the bulk as screenings, seeds and dust more than the prescribed percentage of the total weight of the bulk (sect. 7). A person who carries on the business of manufacturing bread for sale shall not manufacture bread from an admixture of flour and bran (sect. 9). Section 14 provides for powers of entry, inspection and taking of samples by authorized officer. Remaining provisions deal with offences.

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