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Paragraph 1 Application for an irradiation licence

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Any person who seeks to be granted an irradiation licence shall apply for its grant by sending to the licensing authority the following particulars in writing—

(a)

his name,

(b)

his address,

(c)

an identification of the premises at which he proposes to subject food to treatment by ionising radiation,

(d)

details of any licence or registration under other legislation which enables him to use ionising radiation at those premises in circumstances where, but for that licence or registration, that use would be unlawful,

(e)

each description of food which he proposes, subject to paragraph (ii) of sub-paragraph (f) below, to subject to treatment by ionising radiation,

(f)

in respect of each description of food specified pursuant to sub-paragraph (e) above—

(i)

the purpose for which he proposes to subject that description of food to treatment by ionising radiation,

(ii)

whether or not he proposes to use microbiological criteria in deciding whether or not to subject that description of food to treatment by ionising radiation and, where he proposes to use them, the type and frequency of microbiological examination which he proposes is to be used in assisting him to reach that decision and the qualifications of any person who he proposes will undertake that examination,

(iii)

the overall average dose, maximum dose and minimum dose of ionising radiation which, subject to paragraph (ii) above, he proposes to apply to that description of food,

(iv)

the method (including instrumentation and frequency) by which he proposes to measure any dose of ionising radiation and the dosimetry standard which he proposes to use to calibrate the dose meters used to measure it,

(v)

whether or not he proposes, subject to paragraph (ii) above, to subject that description of food to treatment by ionising radiation in packaging in contact with the food and, if so, a specification of the packaging which he proposes to use, and

(vi)

whether or not he proposes, subject to paragraph (ii) above, to apply temperature control to that description of food in conjunction with subjecting it to treatment by ionising radiation and, if so, a specification of the temperature at which he proposes to keep the food during the application of that temperature control,

(g)

a statement of the practices which he proposes to apply, and of the minimum qualifications (whether they are formal or are derived from skill, training or experience) of persons who will be involved in applying those practices, in order to eliminate any significant risk of breach of any condition of an irradiation licence,

(h)

the date from which he wishes the irradiation licence to run, and

(i)

any other particulars which he wishes the licensing authority to consider in deciding whether to grant an irradiation licence.