The Bread and Flour Regulations 1995

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations supersede the Bread and Flour Regulations 1984 and the Bread and Flour (Scotland) Regulations 1984 (together “the revoked Regulations”).

The Regulations—

(a) provide for exemptions from the Regulations (regulation 3);

(b) continue to require that wheat flour (subject to certain exceptions) be fortified with specified essential ingredients (regulation 4, Schedule 1 and 2);

(c) restrict the use of specified ingredients in the preparation of flour and bread and require that an indication of the presence of a flour treatment agent be given in the case both of prepacked and of non-prepacked bread (regulation 5, Schedule 3);

(d) reserve the names `wholemeal' and `wheat germ' for bread which complies with specified compositional requirements and prohibit the sale or advertising for sale using these names of bread which does not comply with the compositional requirements (regulation 6);

(e) create offences and prescribe penalties (regulation 7);

(f) specify the enforcement authorities (regulation 8);

(g) provide a defence in relation to exports in implementation of Article 2 and 3 of, as read with the ninth recital to, Council Directive 89/397/EEC (OJ No. L186, 30.6.89, p. 23) on the official control of foodstuffs (regulation 9);

(h) provide that for a transitional period a defence is available where there would not have been any contravention of the revoked Regulations (regulation 10);

(i) apply various sections of the Food Safety Act 1990 (regulation 11);

(j) amend and revoke specified Regulations (regulation 12 and 13).

The British Pharmacopoeia 1973, 1980 and 1988 and the British Pharmaceutical Codex 1973, referred to in Schedule 1 may be inspected at the British Library Lending Division Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorks LS23 7BQ, Tel. [phone] and by appointment at the library of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 3 Whitehall Place, London SW1A 2HH, Tel. [phone].

In Scotland the British Pharmacopoeia 1973, 1980 and 1988 may be inspected at the Erskine Medical Library, University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9XE, Tel. [phone]. The British Pharmaceutical Codex 1973 may be inspected at the National Library of Scotland, the Lending Division, 33 Salisbury Place, Edinburgh EH9 1SL, Tel. [phone] Ext. 3329.

A Compliance Cost Assessment in relation to these Regulations has been placed in the libraries of both Houses of Parliament and copies can be obtained from the Food Labelling and Standards Division Branch B, of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Ergon House, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR.