Regulation 8 Amendments to the Novel Foods and Novel Food Ingredients Regulations 1997I1

Scotland

In the Novel Foods and Novel Food Ingredients Regulations 1997^f1–

(a)

in regulation 2(1), in the definition of “Regulation (EC) No. 258/97”, after “ingredients” insert “, as amended by Regulation (EC) No. 1829/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council on genetically modified food and feed”; and

(b)

in the Schedule, after item 6 insert–

(i)

in the first column “6A. Article 8.1”; and

(ii)

in the second column–

“Requirement that labelling inform the final consumer of any characteristic or food property which renders a novel food or food ingredient no longer equivalent to an existing food or food ingredient.”.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Reg. 8 in force at 15.11.2004, see reg. 1(1)

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1997/1335, amended by S.I. 1999/1756 and 3182 and S.S.I. 2000/62 and 83.