Jam and Similar Products (Amendment) Regulations 1990
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1990 No. 2085
FOODCOMPOSITION AND LABELLING
The Jam and Similar Products (Amendment) Regulations 1990
Made 19th October 1990
Laid before Parliament 31th October 1990
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 and 118 of the Food Act 19841and now vested in them2, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations, after consultation in accordance with section 118(6) of that Act with such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests substantially affected by the Regulations:
Title, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Jam and Similar Products (Amendment) Regulations 1990 and shall come into force for the purposes of this regulation and regulation 12 on 21st November 1990, and for all other purposes on 31st December 1990.
(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Jam and Similar Products Regulations 19813.
Amendment of the principal Regulations
2. The principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 11 of these Regulations.
3. In regulation 2(1)–
(a) after the definition of chestnut there shall be inserted the following definitions–
““concentrated fruit juice” means juice which has been obtained from fruit by mechanical processes, or from fruit other than apricots, citrus fruits, grapes, peaches, pears or pineapples by diffusion processes, and which has been concentrated by the removal of part of its water, but does not include dried fruit juice;
“dried fruit juice” means specified fruit juice which has been concentrated to the form of powder, granule or solid by the removal of water;”;
(b) for the definition of fruit there shall be substituted–
““fruit” includes carrots, ginger, rhubarb and sweet potatoes;”;
(c) for the definition of fruit curd there shall be substituted–
““fruit curd” means the foods described in column 2 of items 11 and 11A in Schedule 1;”; and
(d) for the definition of fruit juice there shall be substituted–
““fruit juice” means–
(a) specified fruit juice, that is to say any one or combination of–
(i) the food consisting of fermentable but unfermented juice which is obtained from fruit by mechanical processes and has the characteristic colour, aroma and flavour of juice of the fruit from which it is obtained;
(ii) juice which is obtained from concentrated fruit juice by the addition of water and has the organoleptic and analytical characteristics of juice obtained from fruit of the same kind by mechanical processes; and
(iii) concentrated fruit juice; or
(b) dried fruit juice;”.
4. After regulation 7 there shall be inserted the following new regulation–
“7A.—(1) Where any jam, jelly, marmalade, reduced sugar product, UK standard jelly, fruit curd, fruit flavour curd or mincemeat has a residual sulphur dioxide content of more than 30 milligrams per kilogram, then, in addition to any particular required to be identified in a list of ingredients by the Food Labelling Regulations 19844, that residual content shall be identified in the list of ingredients according to the percentage by weight of the residue in the product as “sulphur dioxide”.
(2) The residual sulphur dioxide content of any food to which paragraph (1) of this regulation applies is the total sulphur dioxide remaining in each ingredient of that food after processing.”.
5. In regulation 8–
(a) there shall be added at the beginning of paragraph (2)
“Subject to paragraph (2A) of this regulation”;
(b) in paragraph (2) for “accurate to ±3% of the refractometer reading” there shall be substituted “accurate to ±3 refractometric degrees”; and
(c) there shall be added after paragraph (2)–
“2A Paragraph (2) of this regulation shall not apply to a food which is specially made to fulfil the particular nutritional requirements of diabetics and whose labelling clearly indicates that it is intended for diabetics.”.
6.—(1) In regulation 11, for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted–
“3 Subject to regulation 12, no person shall use in the preparation of any food described in column 2 of Schedule 1 any fruit juice which fails to comply with any requirements as to ingredients, processing and treatment of the Fruit Juices and Fruit Nectars Regulations 19775.”.
(2) The expression “fruit juice,” shall be omitted from paragraph 4 of regulation 11.
7.—(1) In paragraph (2) of regulation 12, for “sulphur dioxide” there shall be substituted “any source of sulphur dioxide which is specified in Schedule 3”, and “sweetened” shall be added before the expression “chestnut puree”.
(2) After paragraph (2) of that regulation there shall be added–
“2A Ginger which has been dried or preserved in syrup may be used in the preparation of a food...
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