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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-safety-sampling-and-qualifications-regulations-1990/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/2463",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Safety (Sampling and Qualifications) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-safety-sampling-and-qualifications-regulations-1990",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations specify the qualifications necessary to be a public analyst, food analyst or food examiner for the purposes of the Food Safety Act 1990. They prohibit specified persons from carrying out analyses or examinations.\nThey also specify the procedures to be followed when a sample has been procured under that Act for analysis or examination, and exclude from these procedures samples taken under Regulations which have their own procedures.\nThey prescribe the form of certificate to be used by analysts and examiners in making their reports.\nThe Regulations also revoke the Public Analysts (Scotland) Regulations 1956 and the Public Analysts Regulations 1957.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/2463/note",
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  "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."
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