Food Irradiation Provisions Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

Amendments to the Food Labelling Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

19.  In regulation 36 (food to which regulation 23 or 27 applies)—

(a) immediately after paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(1A) Paragraphs (2) to (4) shall apply only to food which is prepared for patients requiring sterile diets under medical supervision.”;

(b) in paragraph (5), in paragraph (c), there shall be inserted at the beginning “(except as provided in paragraph (6))”; and

(c) there shall be inserted at the end the following paragraphs—

“(6) Notwithstanding the foregoing paragraphs (but subject to paragraph (7)), in the case of the sale of any food to which regulation 23 or 27 applies which has been irradiated—

(a) “irradiated” or “treated with ionising radiation” shall in all cases appear on the commercial documents relating to such food; and

(b) paragraph (c) of paragraph (5) shall not apply as regards the particulars specified in regulations 14(2), 25(1) and 27(3) and (4) and paragraph 2 of Schedule 2.

(7) Paragraph (6) shall not apply in relation to food which is prepared for patients requiring sterile diets under medical supervision.”.