Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations —

• “the Act” means the Food Safety Act 1990;

• “appropriate medical certificate” means a certificate in writing given by a registered medical practitioner that a person requires food to which tryptophan has been added to treat a condition from which a registered medical practitioner has diagnosed him to be suffering;

• “Directive 2001/15/EC” means Commission Directive 2001/15/EC^f1 on substances that may be added for specific nutritional purposes in foods for particular nutritional uses, as amended by Commission Directive 2004/5/EC^f2;

• “dose form” means a form such as capsules, pastilles, tablets, pills, and other similar forms, sachets of powder, ampoules of liquids, drop dispensing bottles, and other similar forms of liquids or powders designed to be taken in measured small unit quantities;

• “follow–on formula” means a food intended for particular nutritional use by infants in good health who are aged over four months, and constituting the principal liquid element in a progressively diversified diet;

• “food authority” does not include —

  1. (a)

     the council of a district in a non–metropolitan county except where the county functions have been transferred to that council pursuant to a structural change;

  2. (b)

     the appropriate Treasurer referred to in section 5(1)(c) of the Act (which deals with the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple);

• “food supplement” means any food the purpose of which is to supplement the normal diet and which —

  1. (a)

     is a concentrated source of a vitamin or mineral or other substance with a nutritional or physiological effect, alone or in combination; and

  2. (b)

     is sold in dose form;

• “hospital” includes a clinic, nursing home or similar institution;

• “infant” means a child under the age of twelve months;

• “infant formula” means a food intended for particular nutritional use by infants in good health during the first four to six months of life, and satisfying by itself the nutritional requirements of such infants;

• “pharmacist” means a person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business within the meaning of section 69 of the Medicines Act 1968^f3;

• “port health authority” means —

  1. (a)

     in relation to the London port health district (within the meaning given to that phrase for the purposes of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984^f4 by section 7(1) of that Act), the Common Council of the City of London; and

  2. (b)

     in relation to any port health district constituted by order under section 2(3) of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984, a port health authority for that district constituted by order under section 2(4) of that Act;

• “processed cereal–based food” and “baby food” have the same meaning as in the Processed Cereal–based Foods and Baby Foods for Infants and Young Children (England) Regulations 2003^f5;

• “tryptophan” means dextrorotatory tryptophan, laevorotatory tryptophan or racemic tryptophan, or any salt or peptide prepared from any of those forms.

In these Regulations references to adding tryptophan to food —

and references in regulations 4 and 5 to food containing tryptophan do not include cases where that tryptophan only occurs naturally in the food or an ingredient of the food.