# The Food Imitations (Safety) Regulations 1989, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations implement Council Directive No. 87/357/EEC (O.J. No. L192 11.7.1987 p.49) concerning products which, appearing to be other than they are, endanger the health or safety of consumers.
The Regulations revoke the Food Imitations (Safety) Regulations 1985 and the Food Imitations (Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 1985 which prohibited the supply of certain products which looked like food or smelled like food or like flowers or tasted like food.
The Regulations prohibit persons from supplying, offering to supply, agreeing to supply, exposing for supply or possessing for supply any manufactured goods, subject to the exceptions mentioned below, which are ordinarily intended for private use and which are not food for human consumption (food being defined so as to include drink, chewing gum and similar products and materials used in preparing food or drink or such products) but have a form, odour, colour, appearance, packaging, labelling, volume or size which is likely to cause persons (particularly children) to mistake them for food and to put them in their mouths or suck them or swallow them with the result that they may suffer death or personal injury.
The prohibition does not apply to goods mentioned in section 11(7) of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 (including controlled drugs or licensed medicinal products) or to marbles, products which are bona fide intended for use to represent food in a dolls' house or other model scene or setting or things made entirely of food ingredients.
The Regulations come into force on 1st January 1990.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1291/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/food-imitations-safety-regulations-1989/note
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