The Bread and Flour Regulations 1998

Interpretation E+W+S

2.—(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

• “the Act" means the Food Safety Act 1990;

• “bread" means a food of any size, shape or form which—

  (a)

  is usually known as bread, and

  (b)

  consists of a dough made from flour and water, with or without other ingredients, which has been fermented by yeast or otherwise leavened and subsequently baked or partly baked,

  but does not include buns, bunloaves, chapatis, chollas, pitta bread, potato bread or bread specially prepared for coeliac sufferers;

• F1 ...

• F1 ...

• “enzyme preparation" means any food additive which consists of one or more enzymes with or without the addition of supplementary material to facilitate the storage, sale, standardisation, dilution or dissolution of the enzyme or enzymes;

• “flour" means the product which is derived from, or separated during, the milling or grinding of cleaned cereal whether or not the cereal has been malted or subjected to any other process, and includes meal, but does not include other cereal products, such as separated cereal bran, separated cereal germ, semolina or grits;

• “flour bleaching agent" means any food additive primarily used to remove colour from flour;

• [F2 “flour treatment agent" means any food additive, other than an enzyme preparation, which is added to flour or dough to improve its baking quality;]

• “food additive" has the meaning assigned to it by [F3 Article 3(2)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on food additives] [F4 Article 3(2)(a) of Regulation (EC) No. 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on food additives as last amended by Commission Regulation (EU) 2018/1497];

• “food authority" does not include—

  (a)

  the council of a district in a non-metropolitan county in England except where the county functions have been transferred to that council pursuant to a structural change;

  (b)

  the appropriate Treasurer referred to in section 5(1)(c) of the Act (which deals with the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple);

• “ingredient" has the meaning assigned to it by [F5 Article 2(2)(f) of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011];

• “labelling" has the meaning assigned to it by [F6 Article 2(2)(j) of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011];

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• F8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• [F9 “Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011” 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 [F10 , as last amended by Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 of the European Parliament and of the Council on novel foods];]

• “sell" includes offer or expose for sale and includes have in possession for sale, and “sale" shall be construed accordingly.

• [F11 “third country” means any country, other than the United Kingdom, and includes—

  (a)

  the Bailiwick of Guernsey;

  (b)

  the Bailiwick of Jersey;

  (c)

  the Isle of Man.]

(2) Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation or Schedule shall, unless the reference is to a regulation of, or Schedule to, specified regulations, be construed as a reference to the regulation or Schedule so numbered in these Regulations.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (E.) (17.6.2021) by virtue of The Food (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (England) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/616), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(a); words omitted (S.) (22.2.2022) by virtue of The Food (Withdrawal of Recognition) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/477), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(a); and words omitted (W.) (3.3.2022) by virtue of The Food (Withdrawal of Recognition) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional Provisions) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/112), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(a)

F2 Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (W.) (26.7.2018) by virtue of The Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) (Wales) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/806), regs. 1(3), 4(2)(a); and words omitted (S.) (28.3.2019) by virtue of The Food Standards and Hygiene (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/33), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(a)

F3 Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (E.) (1.6.2018) by The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/575), regs. 1(2), 15; and words substituted (W.) (26.7.2018) by The Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) (Wales) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/806), regs. 1(3), 4(2)(b)

F4 Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (S.) (28.3.2019) by The Food Standards and Hygiene (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/33), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(b)

F5 Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (W.) (13.12.2014) by The Food Information (Wales) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2303), reg. 1(3), Sch. 7 para. 20(a); words in reg. 2(1) substituted (S.) (13.12.2014) by The Food Information (Scotland) Regulations 2014 (S.S.I. 2014/312), reg. 1(2), Sch. 5 para. 5(a)(i) (as read with S.S.I. 2015/410, regs. 1(2), 3(10)(c)); words in reg. 2(1) substituted (E.) (13.12.2014) by The Food Information Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1855), Sch. 7 para. 20(a)

F6 Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (W.) (13.12.2014) by The Food Information (Wales) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2303), reg. 1(3), Sch. 7 para. 20(b); words in reg. 2(1) substituted (S.) (13.12.2014) by The Food Information (Scotland) Regulations 2014 (S.S.I. 2014/312), reg. 1(2), Sch. 5 para. 5(a)(ii) (as read with S.S.I. 2015/410, regs. 1(2), 3(10)(c)); words in reg. 2(1) substituted (E.) (13.12.2014) by The Food Information Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1855), Sch. 7 para. 20(b)

F7 Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (W.) (13.12.2014) by virtue of The Food Information (Wales) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2303), reg. 1(3), Sch. 7 para. 20(c); words in reg. 2(1) omitted (S.) (13.12.2014) by virtue of The Food Information (Scotland) Regulations 2014 (S.S.I. 2014/312), reg. 1(2), Sch. 5 para. 5(a)(iii) (as read with S.S.I. 2015/410, regs. 1(2), 3(10)(c)); words in reg. 2(1) omitted (E.) (13.12.2014) by virtue of The Food Information Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1855), Sch. 7 para. 20(c)

F8 Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (W.) (13.12.2014) by virtue of The Food Information (Wales) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2303), reg. 1(3), Sch. 7 para. 20(c); and words omitted (E.) (13.12.2014) by virtue of The Food Information Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1855), Sch. 7 para. 20(c); and words omitted (S.) (22.2.2022) by virtue of The Food (Withdrawal of Recognition) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/477), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(c)

F9 Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (W.) (13.12.2014) by The Food Information (Wales) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2303), reg. 1(3), Sch. 7 para. 20(d); words in reg. 2(1) inserted (S.) (13.12.2014) by The Food Information (Scotland) Regulations 2014 (S.S.I. 2014/312), reg. 1(2), Sch. 5 para. 5(a)(iv) (as read with S.S.I. 2015/410, regs. 1(2), 3(10)(c)); words in reg. 2(1) inserted (E.) (13.12.2014) by The Food Information Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1855), Sch. 7 para. 20(d)

F10 Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (S.) (28.3.2019) by The Food Standards and Hygiene (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/33), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(c)

F11 Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (E.) (17.6.2021) by The Food (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (England) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/616), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(b); words inserted (S.) (22.2.2022) by The Food (Withdrawal of Recognition) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/477), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(d); and words inserted (W.) (3.3.2022) by The Food (Withdrawal of Recognition) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional Provisions) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/112), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(b)