The Quick-frozen Foodstuffs (Amendment) Regulations 1994

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which apply to Great Britain, come into force on 1st September 1994. The Regulations implement Commission Directives 92/1/EEC (OJ No. L34, 11.2.92, p.28) on the monitoring of temperatures of quick-frozen foodstuffs during transport, warehousing and storage, and 92/2/EEC (OJ No. L34, 11.2.92, p.30) laying down the sampling procedures and the European Economic Community’s official method of analysis for the official control of the temperatures of such foodstuffs. This is done by way of amendment to the Quick-frozen Foodstuffs Regulations 1990 (S. I. 1990/2615) which implemented the provisions of Council Directive 89/108/EEC (OJ No. L40, 11.2.89, p. 34) on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to quick-frozen foodstuffs for human consumption, which the provisions of the two Commission Directives now supplement (Regulation 2).

The Regulations provide—

(a) that manufacturers, storers, transporters, local distributors and retailers of quick-frozen food should fit their means of storage or transport (excluding rail transport) of such food with appropriate instruments for monitoring or measuring air temperature (new regulation 6A(1)); and

(b) that manufacturers, storers and transporters should, by means of such instruments, record air temperatures during the storage and transport of quick-frozen foods, and keep such records for at least one year thereafter (new regulation 6A(2)).

Further requirements as to which instruments must be fitted in particular cases are given in new Schedule 2.