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Genetically Modified and Novel Foods (Labelling) (England) Regulations 2000 (S.I. No. 768 of 2000).

País/Territorio
Reino Unido
Subdivisión territorial
England
Tipo de documento
Reglamento
Fecha
2000
Fuente
FAO, FAOLEX
Materia
Alimentación y nutrición
Palabra clave
Control de calidad de los alimentos/inocuidad de los alimentos Productos alimenticios nuevos Biotecnología Envasado/etiquetado
Área geográphica
Islas del Océano Atlántico, Europa, Europa y Central Asia, Atlántico Norte, Mar del Norte, Atlántico Nordeste, Europa Septentrional
Entry into force notes
Coming into force on 10 April, 2000.
Resumen

These Regulations make continued and new provision for the enforcement of-specified Community legislation. The products covered by this legislation are foods and food ingredients which are to be delivered as such to the final consumer, having been produced in whole or in part from genetically modified soya beans or genetically modified maize. The Community labelling requirements are to ensure the final consumer is informed of any characteristic or food property rendering a novel food or novel food ingredient no longer equivalent to an existing food or food ingredient; of the presence in the novel food or food ingredient of material which is not present in an existing equivalent foodstuff and which may have implications for the health of certain sections of the population or give rise to ethical concerns; and of the presence of a genetically modified organism. These Regulations: (a) contain an exemption from the need to be labelled with the particulars required by those EC Regulations in the case of small packages and certain indelibly marked glass bottles (reg. 3(4)); and (b) make provision as to the manner of marking or labelling in the case of the particulars required by those Regulations (regs. 4 to 6). Further these Regulations: (a) allow alternative labelling arrangements instead of the particulars required by the EC Regulations in the case of sales to the final consumer by appropriate premises of food which is prepacked for direct sale or not prepacked (reg. 5); and (b) contain transitional arrangements in respect of sales of such food to the final consumer or to a mass caterer by analogy with Article 4(1) of Regulation 1139/98, Article 2 of Regulation 49/2000 and Article 5 of Regulation 50/2000 (reg. 13). They also: (a) create offences and prescribe a penalty (reg. 7), contain exemptions (reg. 3) and specify enforcement authorities (reg. 8); (b) provide a defence in relation to exports, in accordance with Articles 2 and 3 of Council Directive 89/397/EC on the official control of foodstuffs, as read with the ninth recital to that Directive (reg. 9); (c) incorporate specified provisions of the Food Safety Act 1990 (reg. 10); and (d) make consequential amendments of other legislation in relation to England (regs. 11 and 12).

Texto completo
Inglés
Página web
www.opsi.gov.uk

Referencias - Legislación

Implementa

Food Safety Act 1990.

Legislación | Reino Unido | 1990 (2021)

Palabra clave: Legislación básica, Control de calidad de los alimentos/inocuidad de los alimentos, Fraude, Inspección, Institución

Fuente: FAO, FAOLEX

Commission Regulation (EC) No. 50/2000 on the labelling of foodstuffs and food ingredients containing additives and flavourings that have been genetically modified or have been produced from genetically modified organisms.

Legislación | Unión Europea | 2000

Palabra clave: Control de calidad de los alimentos/inocuidad de los alimentos, Aditivos alimentarios, Normas, Organismo genéticamente modificado (OGM)

Fuente: FAO, FAOLEX

Council Regulation (EC) No. 1139/98 concerning the compulsory indication of the labelling of certain foodstuffs produced from genetically modified organisms of particulars other than those provided for in Directive 79/112/EEC.

Legislación | Unión Europea | 1998

Palabra clave: Control de calidad de los alimentos/inocuidad de los alimentos, Organismo genéticamente modificado (OGM), Envasado/etiquetado, Cereales/granos/arroz, Productos agrícolas

Fuente: FAO, FAOLEX