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Food Labelling Regulations (Amendment) Bill


 

Food Labelling Regulations (Amendment) Bill

 

 
 

Contents

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Country of origin labelling

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Short title and commencement

 

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Food Labelling Regulations (Amendment) Bill

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A

Bill

To

amend the Food Labelling Regulations 1996 to provide for information about

the country of origin of food to be made available to consumers; and for

connected purposes. 

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and

consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present

Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

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Country of origin labelling

(1)   

The Food Labelling Regulations 1996 (S. I. 1996/1499) are amended as follows.

(2)   

In Regulation 2, after paragraph (1) insert—

   “(1A)  

Notwithstanding the definition above, for the purposes of sub-

paragraph (f) of regulation 5, paragraph (1)(g) of regulation 39,

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regulations 39A, 39B and 39C—

“meat product” means any food which consists of meat,

including raw unprocessed meat, or which contains as an

ingredient, or as ingredients, any of the following—

   

meat;

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mechanically recovered meat; or

   

the heart, any other internal organ, the tongue, the

muscles of the head, the carpus, the tarsus, or the tail

from any mammalian or bird species recognised as fit

for human consumption.

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“mechanically recovered meat” has the same meaning as in

Commission Directive 2001/101/EC;”.

(3)   

In Regulation 3, after paragraph (1A)(b) insert—

“(c)   

regulation 5(f)”.

(4)   

In Regulation 5 for sub-paragraph (f) substitute—

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“(f)   

particulars of the place of origin of the meat component or

components of any meat product;

 

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(fa)   

particulars of the place of origin or provenance of any other

food if failure to give such particulars might mislead a

purchaser to a material degree as to the true origin or

provenance of the food; and”.

(5)   

In Regulation 39, after paragraph (1)(f) insert—

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“(g)   

particulars of the place of origin in respect of the meat

component or components of any meat product as set out in

sub-paragraph (f) of Regulation 5.

(6)   

After Regulation 39 insert—

“39A    

Country of origin

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(1)   

For the purposes of sub-paragraph (f) of Regulation 5 the place of origin

of the meat component or components of any meat product is the

country where the animal from which that meat was derived was born.

(2)   

Where meat to which sub-paragraph (f) of Regulation 5 applies has

been reared or slaughtered in a country or countries other than that in

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which it was born the particulars of this country or countries shall also

be marked or labelled in accordance with the requirements of these

Regulations.

(3)   

For the purposes of this Regulation section 36 of the Trade Descriptions

Act 1968 (c. 29) does not apply.

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39B     

Country of origin: British

(1)   

No meat product may be labelled “British” unless the animal from

which the meat was derived was born, reared and slaughtered in the

United Kingdom.

(2)   

For the purposes of paragraph (1) above “labelled “British”” means

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either labelled with the word “British” or labelled with the Union Flag

or any other label implying that the country of origin of the meat was

the United Kingdom.

(3)   

For the purposes of this Regulation section 36 of the Trade Descriptions

Act 1968 does not apply.

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39C     

Meat component

(1)   

For the purposes of sub-paragraph (f) of regulation 5, paragraph (1)(g)

of regulation 39 and regulations 39A and 39B the meat component of a

meat product is any meat ingredient or ingredients which makes up at

least 10% of the product by weight as sold to the ultimate consumer.”

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Short title and commencement

(1)   

This Act may be cited as the Food Labelling Regulations (Amendment) Act

2009.

(2)   

This Act shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may appoint

by an order made by statutory instrument.

 


 
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