The Products Containing Meat etc. (Scotland) Regulations 2014

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Food Safety Act 1990;

“FIC” means Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the provision of food information to consumers, amending Regulations (EC) No 1924/2006 and (EC) No 1925/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Commission Directive 87/250/EEC, Council Directive 90/496/EEC, Commission Directive 1999/10/EC, Directive 2000/13/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, Commission Directives 2002/67/EC and 2008/5/EC and Commission Regulation (EC) No 608/2004(1);

“ingredient” has the meaning given in Article 2(2)(f) of FIC;

“meat” means the skeletal muscles of mammalian and bird species recognised as fit for human consumption with naturally included or adherent tissue;

“regulated product” means—

(a)

any food that contains no other ingredient except for meat;

(b)

any food that contains at least one of the following as an ingredient—

(i)

meat;

(ii)

mechanically separated meat as defined in point 1.14 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004(2) of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin;

(iii)

the heart, the tongue, the muscles of the head (other than the masseters), the carpus, the tarsus, or the tail of any mammalian or bird species recognised as fit for human consumption;

“uncooked”, in relation to a food, means a food that has not been subjected to a process of cooking throughout the whole food so that the food is sold on the basis that it will need further cooking before consumption.

(1)

OJ L 304, 22.11.2011, p.18.

(2)

OJ L 139, 30.4.2004, p.55, as last amended by Council Regulation (EU) No 517/2013 (OJ L 158, 10.6.2013, p.1).