Caseins and Caseinates Regulations 1985
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2026/1985 |
| Year | 1985 |
1985 No. 2026
FOOD
COMPOSITION AND LABELLING
The Caseins and Caseinates Regulations 198518thDecember 1985
8thJanuary 1986
Regulations 1, 2, 3 and 6 to 1029thJanuary 1986Regulations 4 and 529thJanuary 1987
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Social Services and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 4, 7, 118 and 119 of the Food Act 1984(a) 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.— (1) These regulations may be cited as the Caseins and Caseinates Regulations 1985.
(2) Regulations 1, 2, 3 and 6 to 10 shall come into operation on 29th January 1986.
(3) Regulations 4 and 5 shall come into operation on 29th January 1987.
Interpretation
2. In these regulations—
"casein" means the principal protein constituent of milk, washed and dried, insoluble in water and obtained from skimmed milk by precipitation by the addition of acid, or by microbial acidification, or by using rennet or by using otherr milk-coagulating enzymes, without prejudice to the possibility of prior use of ion exchange processes and concentration processes;
(a) 1984 c. 30.
"caseinate" means a product obtained by drying casein treated with neutralising agents;
"casein product" means edible acid casein, edible rennet casein or any edible caseinate;
"reserved description", as respects any casein product, means a description specified in relation to that product in column 1 of Part I of the Schedule, and the use of any such description in these regulations shall be construed as meaning any casein product specified in relation to that description in column 2 of the said Part of the Schedule;
"sell" includes offer or expose for sale and have in possession for sale, and "sale" and "seller" shall be construed accordingly;
"skimmed milk" means the milk of one or more cows to which nothing has been added and of which only the fat content has been reduced;
"the Schedule" means the Schedule to these regulations.
Exemptions
3. These regulations shall not apply to any casein or caseinate—
(a) manufactured before 29th January 1986, or
(b) not intended for sale for human consumption, or
(c) intended at the time of sale, consignment, delivery or importation for export to any place outside the United Kingdom, or
(d) supplied under Government contracts for consumption by Her Majesty's forces or supplied for consumption by a visiting force within the meaning of any of the provisions of Part I of the Visiting Forces Act 1952(a).
General restrictions on use of reserved descriptions
4. No person shall—
(a) give with any food sold by him any label, whether attached to or borne on the container or not, or display with any food offered or exposed by him for sale any ticket or notice, or
(b) publish, or be a party to the publication of, any advertisement for food
which bears or includes any reserved description or any derivative thereof or any word or description substantially similar thereto unless—
(i) such food is a casein product to which the reserved description relates, or
(ii) such description, derivative or word is used in such a context as to indicate explicitly or by clear implication that the substance to which it relates is an ingredient of that food, or
(iii) such description, derivative or word is used in such a context as to indicate explicitly or by clear implication that such food is not a casein product and does not contain one.
(a) 1952 c. 67.
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