Labelling, Presentation and Advertising of Foodstuffs

L.N. 339 of 2005

FOOD SAFETY ACT

(CAP. 449)

Labelling, Presentation and Advertising of Foodstuffs

(Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 2005

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 10 of the Food Safety

Act, the Minister of Health, the Elderly and Community Care has made

the following regulations>–

The title of these regulations is the Labelling, Presentation Citation.

and Advertising of Foodstuffs (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 2005,

and they shall be read and construed as one with the Labelling,

Presentation and Advertising of Foodstuffs Regulations, 2004, L.N. 483 of 2004.

hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”.

These regulations implement the provisions of Commission

Directive 2005#26#EC of the 21 st March, 2005.

These regulations shall come into force on the 25 th November, Commencement.

2005.

Immediately at the end of Part B of the Third Schedule to the Amends the Third

Schedule to the

principal regulations, there shall be added the following new Part C>– principal

regulations.

“PART C

List of food ingredients and substances provisionally excluded until the 25 th November,

2007 from Part B of this Schedule

Products thereof provisionally excluded

— Wheat based glucose syrups including dextrose (1)

— Wheat based maltodextrins (1)

— Glucose syrups based on barley

— Cereals used in distillates for spirits

— Lysozym (produced from egg) used in wine

— Albumin (produced from egg) used as fining agent in

wine and cider

— Fish gelatine used as carrier for vitamins and flavours

— Fish gelatine or Isinglass used as fining agent in beer,

cider and wine

Fully refined soybean oil and fat (1)

— Natural mixed tocopherols (E306), natural D-alpha

tocopherol, natural D-alpha

tocopherol acetate, natural D-alpha tocopherol succinate

from soybean sources

— Vegetable oils derived phytosterols and phytosterol esters

from soybean sources

— Plant stanol ester produced from vegetable oil sterols

from soybean sources

— Whey used in distillates for spirits

— Lactitol

— Milk (casein) products used as fining agents in cider and

wines

— Nuts used in distillates for spirits

— Nuts (almonds, walnuts) used (as flavour) in spirits

— Celery leaf and seed oil

— Celery seed oleoresin

— Mustard oil

— Mustard seed oil

— Mustard seed oleoresin

(1) and products thereof, in so far as the process that they have undergone is not likely to

increase the level of allergenicity assessed by the European Food Safety Authority for the

relevant product from which they originated.”.

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