The Coffee Extracts and Chicory Extracts (England) Regulations 2000

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Food Safety Act 1990;

“chicory” means the roots of Cichorium intybus L. (other than the roots of plants used for the production of witloof chicory) which have been suitably cleaned, dried and roasted;

“chicory extracts” means the concentrated product obtained by extraction from roasted chicory using only water as the method of extraction (excluding any process of hydrolysis involving the addition of an acid or a base);

“coffee extracts” means the concentrated product obtained by extraction from roasted coffee beans using only water as the medium of extraction (excluding any process of hydrolysis involving the addition of an acid or a base) and which contains only the soluble and aromatic constituents of coffee, apart from those insoluble substances which it is impossible to remove and insoluble oils derived from coffee;

“designated product” means any food specified in column 2 of Part I or II of the Schedule (as read with any Note in those columns relating to that food) but does not include any product which contains such a food as an ingredient and which is sold, consigned or delivered as a compound product;

“food authority” does not include—

(a)

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

(b)

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

“the 1996 Regulations” means the Food Labelling Regulations 1996(1);

“reserved description”, as respects any designated product, means any description specified in relation to that product in column 1 of Part I or II of the Schedule and the use of any such description in these Regulations shall be construed as meaning the designated product specified in relation to that description in column 2 of that Part;

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

(2) All proportions mentioned in these Regulations are proportions calculated by weight and, unless the context otherwise requires, are calculated on the total weight of the product.

(3) Any reference in these Regulations to the Schedule shall be construed as a reference to the Schedule to these Regulations.

(1)

S.I. 1996/1499; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1998/1398.