| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1989/2321 |
1989No. 2321
FOOD
COMPOSITION AND LABELLING
The Caseins and Caseinates (Amendment) Regulations 1989
8thDecember1989
12thDecember1989
1stJanuary1990
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Health and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 4, 7, 118 and 119 of the Food Act 1984 ( a) and now vested in them ( b) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations after consultation in accordance with section 118(6) of the said Act with such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests substantially affected by the Regulations:-
Title and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Caseins and Caseinates (Amendment) Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 1st January 1990.
Interpretation
2. In these Regulations the expression "the principal Regulations" means the Caseins and Caseinates Regulations 1985 ( c) and, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference herein to a numbered regulation or to a Schedule shall be construed as a reference to the regulation so numbered in or to the Schedule to the principal Regulations.
Amendment of the principal Regulations
3. The principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with regulations 4 to 7 of these Regulations.
4. At the end of regulation 2 there shall be added the following regulation:
"2A. Any reference in Part III of the Schedule to a "method" identified by a number shall be construed as a reference to the method of analysis for casein products described under that number in, and as read with the General Provisions of, Annex II to First Commission Directive 85/503/EEC ( d).".
(a) 1984 c.30; section 132(1) contains a definition of "the Ministers" relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made.
(b) In the case of the Secretary of State for Health, by virtue of S.I. 1988/1843.
(c) S.I. 1985/2026.
(d) OJ No. L308, 20.11.85, p. 12.
5. After regulation 6 there shall be added the following regulation:
"Sampling
6A. In relation to the sampling of casein products for analysis-
(a) the powers of a sampling officer or of an officer of the Minister's department under section 78 or 83 respectively of the Food Act 1984 to procure samples, and(b) the duty of a sampling officer or of an officer of the Minister's department under section 80 or 83 respectively of and Part I of Schedule 7 to that Act to deal with samples,shall be exercised and performed in accordance with the methods laid down in the Annex to First Commission Directive 86/424/EEC ( a).".
6. Regulation 10 (amendment of the Food Labelling Regulations 1984) shall be revoked.
7. For Part III of the Schedule there shall be substituted the Part III set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.
Amendment of the Food Labelling Regulations 1984
8. As the first item in Schedule 3 (Generic names in list of ingredients) to the Food Labelling Regulations 1984 ( b), there shall be inserted, in Column 1, the word "Caseinates." and, in Column 2, the words "Any type of caseinate".
In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 5th December 1989.
(L.S.)
John Selwyn Gummer |
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Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food |
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Kenneth Clarke |
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8th December 1989 |
Secretary of State for Health |
Peter Walker |
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7th December 1989 |
Secretary of State for Wales |
(a) OJ No. L243, 28.8.86, p. 29.
(b) S.I. 1984/1305, to which no amendments, apart from that specified in regulation 6 above, are relevant to these Regulations.
SCHEDULE
Regulation 7
NEW PART III OF THE SCHEDULE TO THE CASEINS AND CASEINATES REGULATIONS 1985
PART III
STANDARDS
(All percentages are by weight)
Essential factors of composition |
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1. Moisture content of not more than 10% determined by method 1. |
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2. Milk protein content, calculated on the dried extract, of not less than 90% determined by method 2. |
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3. Milk fat content... |
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