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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contaminants-in-food-scotland-regulations-2007/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2007/29",
  "legislation_title": "The Contaminants in Food (Scotland) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contaminants-in-food-scotland-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations–\n“the Act” means the Food Safety Act 1990;\n“authorised lettuce” means lettuce of the kind specified in point 1.3 of Section 1 of the Annex to the Commission Regulation, which complies with the conditions of the derogation under Article 7(2) in relation to the United Kingdom;\n“authorised officer” means any person who is authorised in writing, either generally or specifically, by a food authority to act in matters arising under these Regulations;\n“authorised spinach” means spinach of the kind specified in point 1.1 of Section 1 of the Annex to the Commission Regulation, which complies with the conditions of the derogation under Article 7(1) in relation to the United Kingdom; and\n“the Commission Regulation” means Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1881/2006 setting maximum levels for certain contaminants in foodstuffs;\n(2) Other expressions used in these Regulations and in the Commission Regulation have the same meaning as in the Commission Regulation.\n(3) Any reference to a numbered Article is a reference to the Article so numbered in the Commission Regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "O.J. No. L 364, 20.12.06, p.5."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2007/470",
      "affecting_title": "The Contaminants in Food (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2007/29/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:16:18.421072+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."
}