The Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) Regulations 1998

Amendment of the principal Regulations

5.  In regulation 7 of the principal Regulations–

(a) the word “and” shall be deleted in paragraph (b);

(b) in paragraph (c) the words “of Part 1” shall be inserted between the words “paragraph 3, 4 or 5” and the words “of Schedule 2” and the words “that part of” shall be inserted between the words “has been dried” and “that Schedule”;

(c) after paragraph (c) there shall be inserted the following paragraphs:

“(d) in the case of any product named in Part 2 of Schedule 2 which has been dried or processed that part of that Schedule shall have effect where no such maximum permitted level of pesticide residue is specified therein for the product in its dried or processed form as if the maximum permitted level of pesticide residue specified opposite the name of the product in that Part of that Schedule had been modified to take account of the concentration of the product caused by the drying process or, as the case may be, the dilution or concentration of the product caused by the processing;

(e) in a case where two or more products have been mixed to form a single composite food in relation to which no such maximum permitted levels are specified in Part 2 of Schedule 2, that Part of that Schedule shall have effect as if such maximum permitted levels had been specified in relation to that composite food for each of the pesticide residues which are specified therein opposite the names of each of the products which have been mixed to form the composite food taking into account–

(i) the relative concentrations of each of the constituent products in the mixture; and

(ii) the provisions of paragraph (d).”.