The Emulsifiers and Stabilisers in Food (Amendment) Regulations 1992

Statutory Instruments

1992 No. 165

FOOD

The Emulsifiers and Stabilisers in Food (Amendment) Regulations 1992

Made

30th January 1992

Laid before Parliament

18th February 1992

Coming into force

10th March 1992

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Health and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in relation to England and Wales, and the Secretary of State for Scotland in relation to Scotland, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 4(1), 6(4), 16(1)(a) and (e) and (3), 26(1) and (3) and 48(1) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to, the Food Safety Act 1990(1), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations, after consultation in accordance with section 48 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 Emulsifiers and Stabilisers in Food (Amendment) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 10th March 1992.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations “the English and Welsh Regulations” means the Emulsifiers and Stabilisers in Food Regulations 1989(2) and “the Scottish Regulations” means the Emulsifiers and Stabilisers in Food (Scotland) Regulations 1989(3).

Amendment of the English and Welsh and the Scottish Regulations

3.  In Part II of Schedule 1 to, respectively, the English and Welsh Regulations and the Scottish Regulations there shall be added, after the words “Council Directive 78/663/EEC” in the entries relating to E407 Carrageenan, E466 Carboxymethylcellulose and E473 Sucrose esters of fatty acids, in each case, the words “as amended by Article 1 of Commission Directive 90/612/EEC”(4).

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on

Trumpington

Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheriesand Food

28th January 1992.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health:

Stephen Dorrell

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Health

30th January 1992

David Hunt

Secretary of State for Wales

27th January 1992

Strathclyde

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

28th January 1992

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which apply to Great Britain, come into force on 10th March 1992.

The Regulations amend the Emulsifiers and Stabilisers in Food Regulations 1989 and the Emulsifiers and Stabilisers in Food (Scotland) Regulations 1989 by specifying that the purity criteria for carrageenan, carboxymethylcellulose and sucrose esters of fatty acids given in Part II of Schedule 1 to both sets of Regulations are those contained in Council Directive 78/663/EEC as amended by Commission Directive 90/612/EEC (OJ No. L326, 24.11.90, p.58) (regulation 3).

(1)

1990 c. 16.

(2)

S.I. 1989/876, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

(3)

S.I. 1989/945, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

(4)

OJ No. L326, 24.11.90, p.58.