The Condensed Milk and Dried Milk (Scotland) Regulations 2003

Interpretation S

2.—(1) In these Regulations–

“the Act” means the Food Safety Act 1990;

“catering establishment” means a restaurant, canteen, club, public house, school, hospital or similar establishment (including a vehicle or a fixed or mobile stall) where, in the course of a business, food is prepared for delivery to the ultimate consumer and is ready for consumption without further preparation;

“designated product” means any food specified in column 2 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations (as read with the Notes relating to that Schedule);

“Directive 79/1067/EEC” means First Commission Directive 1979/1067/EEC M1 laying down Community methods of analysis for testing certain partly or wholly dehydrated preserved milk for human consumption;

“Directive 87/524/EEC” means First Commission Directive 1987/524/EEC M2 laying down Community methods of sampling for chemical analysis for the monitoring of preserved milk products;

“EEA Agreement” means the Agreement on the European Economic Area M3 signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as adjusted by the Protocol M4 signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993;

“EEA State” means a State which is a Contracting Party to the EEA Agreement;

“partly dehydrated milk” means the liquid product, whether or not sweetened, obtained directly by the partial removal of water from milk, from wholly or partly skimmed milk or from a mixture of these products and includes such a product to which cream or totally dehydrated milk or both have been added provided the addition of totally dehydrated milk does not exceed, in the finished product, 25% of total milk solids;

“preparation” includes manufacture and any form of processing or treatment and “prepared” shall be construed accordingly;

“the 1996 Regulations” means the Food Labelling Regulations 1996 M5 ;

“reserved description”, as respects any designated product, means any description specified in relation to that product in column 1 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations or any alternative description permitted by Schedule 2 to these Regulations and the use of any such description in these Regulations shall be construed as meaning the product to which that description relates;

“sell” includes offer or expose for sale or have in possession for sale and “sale” and “sold” shall be construed accordingly;

“totally dehydrated milk” means the solid product, where the water content does not exceed 5% by weight of the finished product, obtained directly by the removal of water from milk, from wholly or partly skimmed milk, from cream or from a mixture of these products;

“total milk solids” means all the constituents of milk other than water, including milk fat, the constituents other than milk fat being present in their natural proportions; and

“ultimate consumer” means any person who buys otherwise than–

(a)

for the purpose of resale;

(b)

for the purposes of a catering establishment; or

(c)

for the purposes of a manufacturing business.

Marginal Citations

M1 O.J. No. L 327, 24.12.79, p.29.

M2 O.J. No. L 306, 28.10.87, p.24.

M3 O.J. No. L 1, 3.1.94, p.1.

M4 O.J. No. L 1, 3.1.94, p.571.

M5 S.I. 1996/1499; relevantly amended by S.I. 1998/1398.