Paragraph 15 Free standing conditions

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. 1 para. 1(f)(i) words inserted by Food Irradiation Provisions 2000 reg. 9(a)
Sch. 1 para. 1(ff) inserted by Food Irradiation Provisions 2000 reg. 9(b)
Sch. 1 para. 1(gg) inserted by Food Irradiation Provisions 2000 reg. 9(c)
Sch. 1 Pt. 4 heading words substituted by Food Irradiation Provisions 2000 reg. 13
Sch. 1 Pt. 4 heading words substituted by Food Irradiation Provisions 2001 reg. 13(i)

The licence shall require the licensee, throughout the currency of the licence, to keep records showing for each batch of food subjected by him to treatment by ionising radiation—

(a)

the description and quantity of the food in that batch,

(b)

the numerical reference by which that batch can be identified,

(c)

the name and address of each consignor, and of each consignee, of food within that batch,

(d)

the date on which that treatment took place,

(e)

any microbiological information relating to food in that batch,

(f)

the type of packaging used in contact with the food in that batch during that treatment,

(g)

where temperature control has been applied in conjunction with that treatment, the temperature of the food in that batch immediately before that food was subjected to that treatment,

(h)

the overall average dose of ionising radiation, and the maximum and minimum such dose, applied to that batch in that treatment, and

(i)

the type of ionising radiation used in that treatment,

(j)

the data used for control of that treatment including the following:—

(i)

the positioning of dose meters within the batch and the doses of ionising radiation recorded by them,

(ii)

previous tests used for the purpose of validating that positioning, and

(iii)

the method (including instrumentation and frequency) used for measuring the doses of ionising radiation applied in that treatment, and in those previous tests, and the dosimetry standard used to calibrate the dose meters used to measure those doses, and

(k)

the particulars required to be recorded by the provision required to be included in the licence by paragraph 14 above,

and shall prohibit the licensee from consigning food within that batch to any other person unless that food is accompanied by a statement of the licensee’s name, the premises to which his licence relates, the reference by which his licence can be identified, the reference by which the batch can be identified and the overall average dose specified in sub-paragraph (h) above.