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Food for Specific Groups (Information and Compositional Requirements) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. No. 44 of 2019).

Country/Territory
United Kingdom
Territorial subdivision
England
Document type
Regulation
Date
2019
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Food & nutrition
Keyword
Food quality control/food safety Special dietary uses Breastfeeding/infant food Packaging/labelling Offences/penalties Nutrition
Geographical area
Atlantic Ocean Islands, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Atlantic, North Sea, North-East Atlantic, Northern Europe
Abstract

These Regulations amend the Food for Specific Groups (Information and Compositional Requirements) (England) Regulations 2016 to enforce in England Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/128 supplementing Regulation (EU) No. 609/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the specific information and compositional requirements for food for special medical purposes. The Delegated Regulation sets out the specific information and compositional requirements for food for special medical purposes. The 2016 Regulations are amended so that specified provisions of the Delegated Regulation become ‘specified EU requirements’, to which the modified provisions of the Food Safety Act 1990 apply. This enables an improvement notice to be served requiring compliance. Failure to comply with an improvement notice is a criminal offence. The Delegated Regulation now applies only to food for special medical purposes other than that developed to satisfy the nutritional needs of infants. These Regulations therefore ensure that enforcement of the Delegated Regulation is similarly limited. The definition of medical food in the Medical Food (England) Regulations 2000 is amended. It will continue to apply to medical food developed to satisfy the nutritional needs of infants, so that they only apply to such food.

Full text
English
Website
www.opsi.gov.uk

References - Legislation

Implements

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/128 supplementing Regulation (EU) No. 609/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the specific compositional and information requirements for food for special medical purposes.

Legislation | European Union | 2015

Keyword: Special dietary uses, Standards, MRL-maximum residue limit, Packaging/labelling, Food quality control/food safety, Pesticides

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Amends

Medical Food (England) Regulations 2000 (S.I. No. 845 of 2000).

Legislation | United Kingdom | 2000

Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, Hygiene/sanitary procedures, Food additives, Special dietary uses, Packaging/labelling

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Food for Specific Groups (Information and Compositional Requirements) (England) Regulations 2016 (S.I. No. 688 of 2016).

Legislation | United Kingdom | 2016

Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, Breastfeeding/infant food, Food additives, Special dietary uses, Standards, Enforcement/compliance, Offences/penalties, Nutrition

Source: FAO, FAOLEX