{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contaminants-in-food-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2005/606",
  "legislation_title": "The Contaminants in Food (Scotland) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contaminants-in-food-scotland-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Procurement and analysis of samples",
  "text": "(1) Where a sample is to be taken under section 29(b) or (d) of the Act of a food specified in Annex I to the Commission Regulation, that sample shall be taken in accordance with the methods of taking samples described or referred to–\nNitrate\n(a) (subject to the requirement specified in column 3 of section 1 of Annex I to the Commission Regulation), in the Annex to Commission Directive 2002/63/EC establishing Community methods of sampling for the official control of pesticide residues in and on products of plant and animal origin and repealing Directive 79/700/EC, where the food concerned is of a description specified in Section 1 of Annex I to the Commission Regulation to the sampling of which that Directive applies pursuant to Article 1.3 of that Regulation;\nAflatoxins\n(b) in Annex I to Directive 98/53/EC, where the food concerned is of a description specified in section 2 of Annex I to the Commission Regulation to the sampling of which that Directive applies pursuant to Article 1.3 of that Regulation;\nOchratoxin A\n(c) in Annex I to Directive 2002/26/EC, where the food concerned is of a description specified in section 2 of Annex I to the Commission Regulation to the sampling of which that Directive applies pursuant to Article 1.3 of that Regulation;\nPatulin\n(d) in Annex I to Directive 2003/78/EC, where the food concerned is of a description specified in section 2 of Annex I to the Commission Regulation to the sampling of which that Directive applies pursuant to Article 1.3 of that Regulation;\nLead, cadmium, mercury and 3-MCPD\n(e) in Annex I to Directive 2001/22/EC, where the food concerned is of a description specified in section 3 or 4 of Annex I to the Commission Regulation to the sampling of which that Directive applies pursuant to Article 1.3 of that Regulation;\nDioxins and dioxin-like PCBs\n(f) in Annex I to Directive 2002/69/EC, where the food concerned is of a description specified in section 5 of Annex I to the Commission Regulation to the sampling of which that Directive applies pursuant to Article 1.3 of that Regulation;\nTin\n(g) in Annex I to Directive 2004/16/EC, where the food concerned is of a description specified in section 6 of Annex I to the Commission Regulation to the sampling of which that Directive applies pursuant to Article 1.3 of that Regulation; and\nBenzo(a)pyrene\n(h) in Annex I to Directive 2005/10/EC, where the food concerned is of a description specified in section 7 of Annex I to the Commission Regulation to the sampling of which that Directive applies pursuant to Article 1.3 of that Regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The requirement is that the minimum number of units required for a laboratory sample in such circumstances is 10."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "O.J. No. L 187, 16.7.02, p.30."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/606/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:22:43.335858+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}