Food Hygiene (Wales) Regulations 2005 (W.S.I. No. 3292 (W.252) of 2005).

Subject

Food & nutrition

Keyword

Food quality control/food safety Potable water Hygiene/sanitary procedures Toxicity/poisoning Processing/handling Vending Transport/storage Meat Milk/dairy products

Geographical area

Atlantic Ocean Islands, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Atlantic, North Sea, North-East Atlantic, Northern Europe

Abstract

These Regulations provide for the control of food business operators with respect to hygienic conditions in the production and placing on the market of food. They appoint the Food Standards Agency as the competent authority for the purposes of specified Community Regulations and make provision for the enforcement and execution of these Regulations and of the Community Regulations. Hygiene enforcement orders may be imposed on food business operators. They include: (a) hygiene improvement notices; (b) hygiene prohibition orders; (c) hygiene emergency prohibition notices and orders; and (d) remedial action notices and detention notices. The Regulations further prescribe offences and specify more powers of authorized officers of an enforcement authority. In the Schedules, the Regulations prescribe requirements with respect to bulk transport in seagoing vessels of liquid oils or fats and the bulk transport by sea of raw sugar, temperature control and direct supply by the producer of small quantities of meat from poultry and lagomorphs slaughtered on the farm and they impose restrictions on the sale of raw milk intended for direct human consumption.

Full text

English

Website

www.opsi.gov.uk

References - Legislation

Implements

Regulation (EC) No. 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down specific hygiene rules for the hygiene of foodstuffs.

Legislation | European Union | 2004 (2022)

Keyword: Basic legislation, Food quality control/food safety, Hygiene/sanitary procedures, Processing/handling, Standards, Meat, Fish products, Game, Milk/dairy products, Poultry products, Business/industry/corporations, Certification, International trade, Public health, Registration, Traceability/product tracing, Animal health, Animal welfare, Marking/identification

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Regulation (EC) No. 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the hygiene of foodstuffs.

Legislation | European Union | 2004 (2021)

Keyword: Basic legislation, Food quality control/food safety, Hygiene/sanitary procedures, Processing/handling, HACCP, Traceability/product tracing, Treated food, Transport/storage, Internal trade, International trade, Business/industry/corporations, Risk assessment/management

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Repealed by

Food Hygiene (Wales) Regulations 2006 (W.S.I. No. 31 (W. 5) of 2006).

Legislation | United Kingdom | 2006

Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, Potable water, Hygiene/sanitary procedures, Toxicity/poisoning, Processing/handling, Vending, Transport/storage, Meat, Milk/dairy products

Source: FAO, FAOLEX