Poultrymeat Marketing Standards Regulations, 2006

L.N. 279 of 2006

VETERINARY SERVICES ACT

(CAP. 437)

FOOD SAFETY ACT

(CAP. 449)

Poultrymeat Marketing Standards Regulations, 2006

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 10 of the Veterinary

Services Act and by article 10 of the Food Safety Act respectively, the

Minister for Rural Affairs and the Environment and the Minister of

Health, the Elderly and Community Care have made the following

regulations>–

The title of these regulations is the Poultrymeat Standards

Regulations, 2006

(1) The Food Safety Commission is hereby being designated

as the competent authority responsible for supervising compliance with

Council Regulation (ECC) No. 1906#90 on certain marketing standards

for poultrymeat.

(2) The Food Safety Commission shall specify the

responsibilities for enforcement of the provisions of Council Regulation

(EEC) No. 1906#09 on certain marketing standards for poultrymeat and

of Commission (EEC) No. 1538#91 introducing detailed rules for

implementing Regulation (ECC) No. 1906#90 on certain marketing

standards for poultrymeat at all stages of marketing, including transport.

(3) Save where otherwise provided for by the Food Safety

Commission, responsibility for enforcement at retail level shall be

assigned to the Superintendent of Public Health while responsibility

for enforcement at all previous stages of marketing shall be assigned to

the Director, Veterniary Services.

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