The Food Irradiation Provisions (England) Regulations 2000

22.  In regulation 35 (general requirement as to the manner of marking or labelling of food other than food to which regulation 23, 27 or 31 applies)—

(a)the existing text shall be numbered “(1)";

(b)in the full-out words to paragraph (1), after the word “may" there shall be inserted the words “ (except as provided in paragraph (2) of this regulation) ”; and

(c)there shall be inserted after paragraph (1) the following paragraph—

(2) In the case of food to which paragraph (1) of this regulation applies which has been irradiated, other than food which is prepared for patients requiring sterile diets under medical supervision, the alternative provided for in the full-out words to that paragraph shall not apply as regards the particulars specified in regulations 14(2) and 26(4A) and paragraph 2 of Schedule 2, and the word “irradiated" or the words “treated with ionising radiation" shall in all cases appear on the commercial documents relating to such food..