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Regulation 2 InterpretationF1

England, Wales and Scotland

(1)

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

  • “the Act" means the Food Safety Act 1990;

  • “bread" means a food of any size, shape or form which—

    1. (a)

      is usually known as bread, and

    2. (b)

      consists of a dough made from flour and water, with or without other ingredients, which has been fermented by yeast or otherwise leavened and subsequently baked or partly baked,

    but does not include buns, bunloaves, chapatis, chollas, pitta bread, potato bread or bread specially prepared for coeliac sufferers;

  • F2“common wheat” means Triticum aestivum L.;

  • F3...

  • ...

  • “enzyme preparation" means any food additive which consists of one or more enzymes with or without the addition of supplementary material to facilitate the storage, sale, standardisation, dilution or dissolution of the enzyme or enzymes;

  • “flour" means the product which is derived from, or separated during, the milling or grinding of cleaned cereal whether or not the cereal has been malted or subjected to any other process, and includes meal, but does not include other cereal products, such as separated cereal bran, separated cereal germ, semolina or grits;

  • “flour bleaching agent" means any food additive primarily used to remove colour from flour;

  • F4...

  • “food additive" has the meaning assigned to it by F5Article 3(2)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on food additives F6Article 3(2)(a) of Regulation (EC) No. 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on food additives F7as last amended by Commission Regulation (EU) 2018/1497;

  • “food authority" does not include—

    1. (a)

      the council of a district in a non-metropolitan county in England except where the county functions have been transferred to that council pursuant to a structural change;

    2. (b)

      the appropriate Treasurer referred to in section 5(1)(c) of the Act (which deals with the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple);

  • “ingredient" has the meaning assigned to it by F8Article 2(2)(f) of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011;

  • “labelling" has the meaning assigned to it by F9Article 2(2)(j) of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011;

  • F10...

  • F11...

  • F12“Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011” means Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the provision of food information to consumers, amending Regulations (EC) No 1924/2006 and (EC) No 1925/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Commission Directive 87/250/EEC, Council Directive 90/496/EEC, Commission Directive 1999/10/EC, Directive 2000/13/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, Commission Directives 2002/67/EC and 2008/5/EC and Commission Regulation (EC) No 608/2004 F13, as last amended by Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 of the European Parliament and of the Council on novel foods;

  • “sell" includes offer or expose for sale and includes have in possession for sale, and “sale" shall be construed accordingly.

  • F14“third country” means any country, other than the United Kingdom, and includes—

    1. (a)

      the Bailiwick of Guernsey;

    2. (b)

      the Bailiwick of Jersey;

    3. (c)

      the Isle of Man.

  • F15“wholemeal flour” means the flour consisting of the whole of the product obtained from the milling or grinding of cleaned cereals.

(2)

Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation or Schedule shall, unless the reference is to a regulation of, or Schedule to, specified regulations, be construed as a reference to the regulation or Schedule so numbered in these Regulations.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Regulations revoked (W.) (19.2.2025) by The Bread and Flour (Wales) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/88), regs. 1(2), 14 (with regs. 15, 16)

F2

Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (E.) (13.12.2024) by The Bread and Flour (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1162), regs. 2(1)(c), 3(2)(a); and inserted (S.) (3.2.2025) by The Bread and Flour Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2024 (S.S.I. 2024/387), regs. 1(3)(c), 2(2)(a)

F3

Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (E.) (17.6.2021) by virtue of The Food (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (England) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/616), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(a); and omitted (S.) (22.2.2022) by virtue of The Food (Withdrawal of Recognition) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/477), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(a); and omitted (W.) (3.3.2022) by virtue of The Food (Withdrawal of Recognition) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional Provisions) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/112), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(a)

F4

Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (W.) (26.7.2018) by virtue of The Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) (Wales) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/806), regs. 1(3), 4(2)(a); and omitted (S.) (28.3.2019) by virtue of The Food Standards and Hygiene (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/33), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(a); and omitted (E.) (13.12.2024) by virtue of The Bread and Flour (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1162), regs. 2(1)(c), 3(2)(b)

F5

Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (E.) (1.6.2018) by The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/575), regs. 1(2), 15; and substituted (W.) (26.7.2018) by The Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) (Wales) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/806), regs. 1(3), 4(2)(b)

F6

Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (S.) (28.3.2019) by The Food Standards and Hygiene (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/33), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(b)

F7

Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (S.) (1.4.2025) by virtue of The Food and Feed (Regulated Products) (Amendment, Revocation, Consequential and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/361), reg. 1(2), Sch. 10 para. 1(2)

F8

Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (W.) (13.12.2014) by The Food Information (Wales) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2303), reg. 1(3), Sch. 7 para. 20(a); and substituted (S.) (13.12.2014) by The Food Information (Scotland) Regulations 2014 (S.S.I. 2014/312), reg. 1(2), Sch. 5 para. 5(a)(i) (as read with S.S.I. 2015/410, regs. 1(2), 3(10)(c)); and substituted (E.) (13.12.2014) by The Food Information Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1855), Sch. 7 para. 20(a)

F9

Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (W.) (13.12.2014) by The Food Information (Wales) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2303), reg. 1(3), Sch. 7 para. 20(b); and substituted (S.) (13.12.2014) by The Food Information (Scotland) Regulations 2014 (S.S.I. 2014/312), reg. 1(2), Sch. 5 para. 5(a)(ii) (as read with S.S.I. 2015/410, regs. 1(2), 3(10)(c)); and substituted (E.) (13.12.2014) by The Food Information Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1855), Sch. 7 para. 20(b)

F10

Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (W.) (13.12.2014) by virtue of The Food Information (Wales) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2303), reg. 1(3), Sch. 7 para. 20(c); and omitted (S.) (13.12.2014) by virtue of The Food Information (Scotland) Regulations 2014 (S.S.I. 2014/312), reg. 1(2), Sch. 5 para. 5(a)(iii) (as read with S.S.I. 2015/410, regs. 1(2), 3(10)(c)); and omitted (E.) (13.12.2014) by virtue of The Food Information Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1855), Sch. 7 para. 20(c)

F11

Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (W.) (13.12.2014) by virtue of The Food Information (Wales) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2303), reg. 1(3), Sch. 7 para. 20(c); and omitted (E.) (13.12.2014) by virtue of The Food Information Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1855), Sch. 7 para. 20(c); and omitted (S.) (22.2.2022) by virtue of The Food (Withdrawal of Recognition) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/477), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(c)

F12

Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (W.) (13.12.2014) by The Food Information (Wales) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2303), reg. 1(3), Sch. 7 para. 20(d); and inserted (S.) (13.12.2014) by The Food Information (Scotland) Regulations 2014 (S.S.I. 2014/312), reg. 1(2), Sch. 5 para. 5(a)(iv) (as read with S.S.I. 2015/410, regs. 1(2), 3(10)(c)); and inserted (E.) (13.12.2014) by The Food Information Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1855), Sch. 7 para. 20(d)

F13

Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (S.) (28.3.2019) by The Food Standards and Hygiene (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/33), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(c)

F14

Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (E.) (17.6.2021) by The Food (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (England) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/616), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(b); and inserted (S.) (22.2.2022) by The Food (Withdrawal of Recognition) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/477), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(d); and inserted (W.) (3.3.2022) by The Food (Withdrawal of Recognition) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional Provisions) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/112), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(b)

F15

Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (E.) (13.12.2024) by The Bread and Flour (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1162), regs. 2(1)(c), 3(2)(c); and inserted (S.) (3.2.2025) by The Bread and Flour Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2024 (S.S.I. 2024/387), regs. 1(3)(c), 2(2)(b)