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3.—(1) In these Regulations—
“the Agency” means the Food Standards Agency;
“approval” includes a licence;
“import” means to introduce from another member State or from a country outside the European Community;
“ionising radiation” means any gamma rays, X rays or corpuscular radiations which are capable of producing ions either directly or indirectly;
“irradiated” means treated by ionising radiation;
“licence” save in regulation 7(a)(ii)(bb) means a licence granted by the Agency in accordance with Schedule 2 to a person and a facility to irradiate food;
“member State” means a member State of the European Communities;
“official reference number” in relation to a facility in a member State means the reference number allocated by the member State in connection with its approval as an irradiation facility (being the number shown for it in the list in Schedule 3);
“sell” includes possess, offer, expose and advertise for sale;
“the Order” means the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991.
(2) For the purposes of these Regulations—
(a)“properly irradiated food” means food which—
(i)was either irradiated alone or as part of a batch of food in which each item was food which fell within the same permitted category of food; and
(ii)has not been over-irradiated;
(b)food falls within a permitted category of food when (excluding the weight of any added water) no less than 98 per cent of it by weight falls within that category, and “item”, in relation to a batch of food, means each item within that batch intended to be capable of being sold individually;
(c)the permitted categories of food are—
(i)fruit;
(ii)vegetables;
(iii)cereals;
(iv)bulbs and tubers;
(v)dried aromatic herbs, spices and vegetable seasonings;
(vi)fish and shellfish; and
(vii)poultry;
(d)in the permitted categories of food—
(i)“fruit” includes fungi, tomatoes and rhubarb;
(ii)“vegetables” excludes fruit, cereals, bulbs and tubers and dried aromatic herbs, spices and vegetable seasonings but includes pulses;
(iii)“bulbs and tubers” means potatoes, yams, onions, shallots and garlic;
(iv)“fish and shellfish” includes eels, crustaceans and molluscs; and
(v)“poultry” means domestic fowls, geese, ducks, guinea fowls, pigeons, quails and turkeys;
(e)food has been over-irradiated either when the overall average dose of ionising radiation absorbed by it, measured in accordance with Schedule 1, exceeds, in the case of—
(i)fruit, 2 kGy;
(ii)vegetables, 1 kGy;
(iii)cereals, 1 kGy;
(iv)bulbs and tubers, 0.2 kGy;
(v)dried aromatic herbs, spices and vegetable seasonings, 10 kGy;
(vi)fish and shellfish, 3 kGy; or
(vii)poultry, 7 kGy,
or in the circumstances described in paragraph (3).
(3) The circumstances are that the maximum dose of ionising radiation absorbed by the food, or by any food in the same batch, measured in accordance with Schedule 1, is—
(a)more than three times the minimum dose absorbed by it; or
(b)more than 1.5 times the overall average dose specified for the food in paragraph (2)(e).
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