The Materials and Articles in Contact with Food Regulations 1987

Analysis, examination and testing

13.—(1) If an authorised officer who has procured a sample of any material or article to which these Regulations apply or of any food which has come into contact with any such material or article considers that it should be analysed, examined or tested he shall submit such sample to be analysed, examined or tested as the case may be by the public analyst for the area in which it was procured or, if the office of the public analyst for the area in question is vacant, to the public analyst for some other area.

(2) The public analyst shall analyse, examine or test or have analysed, examined or tested, as soon as practicable any sample submitted to him in pursuance of this regulation.

(3) A public analyst who has analysed, examined or tested a sample shall give to the person by whom it was originally submitted a certificate specifying the result of the analysis, examination or test.

(4) Any certificate of the results of an analysis, examination or test given by a public analyst in pursuance of this regulation shall be signed by the public analyst, but the analysis, examination or test may be made by any person acting under the direction of the analyst.