Regulations, 2011

L.N. 405 of 2011

FOOD SAFETY ACT

(CAP. 449)

Extraction Solvents for Foodstuffs (Amendment)

Regulations, 2011

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

Safety Act, the Minister for Health, the Elderly and Community

Care, has made the following regulations:-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Extraction Citation and

Solvents for Foodstuffs (Amendment) Regulations, 2011, and they commencement.

shall be read and construed as one with the Extraction Solvents

for Foodstuffs Regulations, 1999, hereinafter referred to as “the L.N. 25 of 1999.

principal regulations”.

(2) These regulations shall be deemed to have come

into force on the 15th September 2011.

Regulation 3 implements the provisions of Commission Scope.

Directive 2010/59/EU of 26 August 2010 amending Directive

2009/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on

the approximation of the laws of the Member States on extraction

solvents used in the production of foodstuffs and food ingredients.

(1) For regulation 3.3 of the principal regulations,

immediately after the entry for ‘propan-2-ol’, there shall be added

the following:-

“Dimethyl

Preparation of defatted

0,009mg/kg in the

ether

animal protein

defatted protein

products

product”.

(2) In regulation 3.4 of the principal regulations, there

shall be added the following :-

“Methanol

1,5 mg/kg

Propan-2-ol

1 mg/kg”.

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