The Imported Food Regulations 1997

Regulations 2(1), 3(1) and 4

SCHEDULE 1 EXEMPT PRODUCTS OF ANIMAL ORIGIN

1.  Fishery products and products derived from aquaculture animals.

2.  Live filter-feeding lamellibranch molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates and marine gastropods.

3.  Frogs' legs and snails.

4.  The meat of domestic animals of the following species: bovine animals (including buffalo of the species Bubalus bubalis and Bison bison), swine, sheep, goats, solipeds and rabbits.

5.  The meat of wild land mammals which are hunted.

6.  The meat of non-domesticated animals which are reared and slaughtered in captivity.

7.  The meat of domestic fowls, turkeys, guinea fowls, ducks and geese.

8.  The meat of birds, including ratites, which are either wild or not generally considered domestic (including the meat of such birds in circumstances where they have been reared and slaughtered in captivity).

9.  Meat preparations, meat products, mechanically recovered meat and minced meat.

10.  Shell eggs laid by a hen, duck, goose, turkey or guinea fowl.

11.  Egg products, other than finished foodstuffs, obtained from eggs laid by a hen, duck, goose, turkey or guinea fowl, including where partially supplemented by other foodstuffs or additives and where liquid, concentrated, crystallised, frozen, quick-frozen, coagulated or dried.

12.  Milk and milk-based products.

13.  Honey.

14.  Meat extracts and meat powder.

15.  Lard and rendered animal fat.

16.  Greaves, fishmeal, meatmeal and pork-rind powder.

17.  Stomachs, bladders and intestines.

18.  Blood and blood products.

19.  Bones, bone products, horns, horn products, hooves and hoof products.

20.  Gelatin and tallow.

Regulation 10

SCHEDULE 2 AMENDMENTS TO THE GENERAL FOOD HYGIENE REGULATIONS

1.  In paragraph (1) of regulation 2 of the General Food Hygiene Regulations (interpretation), after the definition of “hygiene” there shall be inserted the following definition—

““list of acceptable previous cargoes for liquid oils or fats” means the list set out in the Annex to Commission Directive 96/3/EC granting a derogation from certain provisions of Council Directive 93/43/EEC on the hygiene of foodstuffs as regards the transport of bulk liquid oils and fats by sea(1);”.

2.  In sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 2 of Chapter IV of Schedule 1 to the General Food Hygiene Regulations (transportation of certain bulk foodstuffs)—

(a) before the words “bulk foodstuffs” there shall be inserted the words “subject to sub-paragraphs (3) and (4)”; and

(b) for the word “granular” there shall be substituted the word “granulate”.

3.  After sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 2 of Chapter IV of Schedule 1 to the General Food Hygiene Regulations there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraphs —

“(3) The bulk transport in sea-going vessels of liquid oils or fats which are to be processed, and which are intended for or likely to be used for human consumption, is permitted in tanks that are not exclusively reserved for the transport of foodstuffs, subject to the following conditions—

(a) where the oil or fat is transported in a stainless steel tank, or tank lined with epoxy resin or technical equivalent, the immediately previous cargo transported in the tank shall have been a foodstuff or a cargo from the list of acceptable previous cargoes for liquid oils or fats;

(b) where the oil or fat is transported in a tank of materials other than those in paragraph (a) above, the three previous cargoes transported in the tanks shall have been foodstuffs or from the list of acceptable previous cargoes for liquid oils or fats.

(4) The bulk transport in sea-going vessels of liquid oils or fats which are not to be further processed, and which are intended for or are likely to be used for human consumption, is permitted in tanks that are not exclusively reserved for the transport of foodstuffs, subject to the following conditions—

(a) the tank shall be of stainless steel or lined with epoxy resin or technical equivalent;

(b) the three previous cargoes transported in the tank shall have been foodstuffs.”.

4.  After paragraph 2 of Chapter IV of Schedule 1 to the General Food Hygiene Regulations there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“2A.— (1) The captain of a sea-going vessel transporting, in tanks, bulk liquid oils or fats intended for or likely to be used for human consumption shall keep accurate documentary evidence relating to the three previous cargoes carried in the tanks concerned, and the effectiveness of the cleaning process applied between these cargoes.

(2) Where the cargo has been trans-shipped, in addition to the documentary evidence required in sub-paragraph (1), the captain of the receiving vessel shall keep accurate documentary evidence that the transport of the bulk liquid oil or fat complied with the provisions in paragraph 2(3) or (4) of this Chapter during previous shipment and of the effectiveness of the cleaning process used between these cargoes on the other vessel.

(3) Upon request, the captain of the vessel shall provide the food authority with the documentary evidence described in sub-paragraphs (1) and (2).”.

(1)

OJ No. L 21, 27.1.96, p. 42.