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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-control-of-irradiation-regulations-1990/schedule-1/paragraph-14",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/2490",
  "legislation_title": "The Food (Control of Irradiation) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-control-of-irradiation-regulations-1990",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/14",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Free standing conditions",
  "text": "(1) The licence shall require the licensee to maintain such recording devices as shall at all times ensure that there is recorded, in relation to each batch of food subjected to treatment by ionising radiation, the following information—\n(a) where the facility for that subjection is a radionuclide facility—\n(i) in relation to each source configuration of ionising radiation available for use in the facility, such information as to its position as shows whether, and if so when, that batch of food was exposed to it, and\n(ii) either the speed at which the batch travels through the facility and the route which the batch travels while passing through it or the time which the batch spends in the facility;\n(b) where the facility for that subjection involves a machine source—\n(i) the energy level of the machine source;\n(ii) the electron current of the machine source;\n(iii) the scanner width of the machine source;\n(iv) unless the machine source has a scattering device, the frequency with which the beam from the machine source scans the batch; and\n(v) the speed at which the batch travels through the facility.\n(2) The licence shall require the licensee to ensure that there is recorded (whether by means of recording devices or otherwise)—\n(a) in relation to each batch of food—\n(i) to which sub-paragraph (1)(a) above applies, and\n(ii) in respect of which there is recorded the speed at which it travels through but not the time which it spends in the facility referred to therein,\nthe route which it travels while passing through that facility, and\n(b) in relation to each batch of food to which sub-paragraph (1)(b) above applies, the characteristics of the beam referred to therein.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2001/1232",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Irradiation Provisions (Wales) Regulations 2001 (revoked)"
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/2490/schedule/1/paragraph/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:55:19.736067+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."
}