Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) Amendment No.2 Order 1987
1987 No. 1696
PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES
PUBLIC HEALTH, SCOTLAND
PUBLIC HEALTH, NORTHERN IRELANDCONTAMINATION OF FOOD
The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) Amendment No.2 Order 1987
Made 25th September 1987
Laid before Parliament 28th September 1987
Coming into force 28th September 1987
Whereas the Secretary of State is of the opinion, as mentioned in section 1(1)(a) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 19851, that there has been or may have been an escape of substances of such descriptions and in such quantities and such circumstances as are likely to create a hazard to human health through human consumption of food;
And whereas he is of the opinion, as mentioned in section 1(1)(b) of the said Act, that in consequence of the said escape of substances, food which is, or may be in the future, in the areas described in the Schedule to the principal Order or which is, or may be in the future, derived from anything in those areas, is, or may be, or may become, unsuitable for human consumption;
Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 1(1) and (2) and 24(1) and (3) of the said Act2, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, he hereby makes the following Order:
Title, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) Amendment No.2 Order 1987 and shall come into force on 28th September 1987.
(2) In this Order “the principal Order” means the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) Order 19873.
Designated incident
2. In the opinion of the Secretary of State, food in the areas described in the Schedule to the principal Order, or which is derived from anything in those areas, is or may be unsuitable for human consumption in consequence of the following escape of substances:—
the escape on or after 26th April 1986 of radioactive substances from a nuclear reactor situated at Chernobyl in the Ukraine, USSR.
Amendment of the principal Order
3.—(1) In article 4 of the principal Order for paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—
“2 Paragraph (1) above shall not apply in the case of—
(a) any sheep which was moved from any place in accordance with a consent given under section 2(1) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 which consent was subject to the condition that the sheep to which it applies should be marked with an apricot mark; or
(b) any sheep which—
(i) was moved from any place...
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