Labelling, Presentation and Advertising of Foodstuffs

L.N. 70 of 2006

FOOD SAFETY ACT

(CAP. 449)

Labelling, Presentation and Advertising of Foodstuffs

(Amendment) Regulations, 2006

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

and Advertising of Foodstuffs (Amendment) Regulations, 2006, and

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

Presentation and Advertising of Foodstuffs Regulations, 2004,

hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”.

These regulations further implement the provisions of

Commission Directive 2005#26#EC of the 21 st March, 2005 and

Commission Directive 2005#63#EC of 3 rd October, 2005 and amend

the principal regulations as amended by the Labelling, Presentation

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

2005, and they shall be deemed to have come into force together

with the said amending regulations on the 25 th November, 2005.

In Part C of the Third Schedule to the principal regulations,

with regards to the Ingredient “Fish”, in the corresponding column

“Products thereof provisionally excluded” for the words “carrier for

vitamins and flavours” there shall be substituted the words “carrier

for vitamins or carotenoid preparations and flavours”.

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