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SCHEDULE 1CONTENTS OF THE STATUTORY STATEMENT

PART 1

21.—(1) Subject to subparagraph (2) below, information may be provided in addition to the particulars required or permitted to be contained in the statutory statement or otherwise declared.

(2) Any information provided in addition to the particulars required or permitted by these Regulations to be contained in the statutory statement or otherwise declared—

(a)shall be clearly separated from those particulars;

(b)shall not be designed to indicate the presence or content of analytical constituents other than those the declaration of which is provided for in this Schedule or in Schedule 10;

(c)shall relate to objective or quantifiable factors which can be substantiated;

(d)shall not mislead the user, in particular by attributing to the feeding stuff effects or properties that it does not possess, or by suggesting that it possesses special characteristics when in fact all similar feeding stuffs contain similar properties;

(e)shall not claim that the feeding stuff will prevent, treat or cure a disease, except as regards ingredients which are medicinal products within the meaning of the Medicines Act 1968;

(f)shall not, in the case of a feeding stuff intended for a particular nutritional purpose, include a generic description other than in the form of the generic term “dietetic”;

(g)shall not, in the case of any feeding stuff other than one intended for a particular nutritional purpose, include a generic description in that form; and

(h)may in the case of a feeding stuff intended for a particular nutritional purpose, include reference to a particular pathological condition, provided that the particular nutritional purpose specified in respect of that feeding stuff in column 1 of Chapter A of Schedule 10 relates to that condition.