{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quick-frozen-foodstuffs-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-2/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quick-frozen-foodstuffs-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-2/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2007/65",
  "legislation_title": "The Quick-Frozen Foodstuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quick-frozen-foodstuffs-regulations-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The conditions are that—\n(a) a quick-frozen foodstuff has been manufactured from raw materials of sound, genuine and merchantable quality and no other materials;\n(b) no raw material has been used in the manufacture of the quick-frozen foodstuff unless, at the time of its use, it would have been lawful for the raw material to be placed on the market for human consumption;\n(c) the preparation and quick-freezing of the quick-frozen foodstuff have been carried out with sufficient promptness, and by use of appropriate technical equipment, to minimise any chemical, biochemical and microbiological changes to the food comprised in it;\n(d) no cryogenic medium other than an authorised cryogenic medium has been used in direct contact with any food comprised in the quick-frozen foodstuff;\n(e) the quick-freezing of each food comprised in the quick-frozen foodstuff has resulted in the temperature of that food after thermal stabilisation being –18oC or colder; and\n(f) following the quick-freezing and thermal stabilisation of each food comprised in the quick-frozen foodstuff in compliance with sub-paragraph (e) the temperature of that food has been maintained at a level no warmer than –18oC except where a permitted exception relating to the temperature of the food applies.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (1.3.2007) by The Quick-Frozen Foodstuffs (No.2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/110), Regs. 1 , 11"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/65/schedule/2/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:42:46.477647+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}