Regulation 9 Power to affix an out-graded labelI1
England and Wales
Where an authorised officer who has entered premises under regulation 6 finds bananas which have affixed to them a label or are accompanied by a notice or a document, or are in a container to which a label is affixed or that is accompanied by a notice or document—
indicating that the bananas are of a particular class provided for in the marketing standards, but
which the authorised officer has reasonable cause to believe do not comply with any class under the marketing standards,
the authorised officer may amend or cancel the label, notice or document and may affix to those bananas or, as the case may be, to the notice, document or container, a label indicating that fact (an “out-graded label”).
The out-graded label must show the word “OUTGRADED”.