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Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2000 (S.S.I. No. 431 of 2000).

Country/Territory
United Kingdom
Territorial subdivision
Scotland
Document type
Regulation
Date
2000
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Food & nutrition
Keyword
Food quality control/food safety Hygiene/sanitary procedures Packaging/labelling Standards
Geographical area
Atlantic Ocean Islands, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Atlantic, North Sea, North-East Atlantic, Northern Europe
Entry into force notes
These Regulations will come into force on 31 December 2000.
Abstract

These Regulations: (a) update the lists of monomers and additives which can be used in the manufacture of plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food (regs. 10 and 11 and Schedules 1 and 2); (b) impose restrictions and specifications in respect of some of those monomers and additives (regs. 5(a), 6, 8, 10, 11 and 12 and Schedules 1, 2 and 4); in particular, a new type of restriction for additives is introduced (maximum permitted quantity of the substance in the finished material or article expressed as mg per 6 dm2 of the surface in contact with food); (c) bring products obtained by bacterial fermentation within the scope of the 1998 Regulations and impose restrictions and specifications for such products (regs. 4, 5(b), 7 and 12 and Schedule 3); (d) include a transitional provision (reg. 9); and (e) make some consequential amendments (regs. 3 and 13(a)) and correct two errors in the 1998 Regulations (regs. 10(d) and 13(b)).

Full text
English
Website
www.opsi.gov.uk

References - Legislation

Amends

Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations 1998 (S.I. No. 1376 of 1998).

Legislation | United Kingdom | 1998

Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, Hygiene/sanitary procedures, Packaging/labelling, Standards

Source: FAO, FAOLEX