Fruit Juices and Similar Products (Amendment) Regulations,

L.N. 41 of 2011

FOOD SAFETY ACT

(CAP. 449)

Fruit Juices and Similar Products (Amendment) Regulations,

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 Fruit Juices

and Similar Products (Amendment) Regulations, 2011 and they

shall be read and construed as one with the fruit Juices and Similar

Products Regulations, 2004, hereinafter referred to as “the principal

regulations”.

(2) These regulations shall be deemed to have come

into force on the 1st January, 2011.

These regulations implement the provisions of

Commission Directive 2009/106/EC amending Council Directive

2001/112/EC relating to fruit juices and certain similar products

intended for human consumption.

In regulation 4.1.6 the words “made with concentrate(s)”

and “partially made with concentrate(s)” shall be replaced by the

words “from concentrate(s)” and “partially from concentrate(s)”

respectively.

In the First Schedule to the principal regulations, in

Part I thereof, for paragraph 1, sub-paragraph (b) there shall be

substituted the following

“(b) Fruit juice from concentrate

The product obtained by replacing in the concentrated

fruit juice water extracted from that juice during

concentration, and restoring the flavours, and, if appropriate,

pulp and cells lost from the juice but recovered during

the process of producing the fruit juice in question or of

fruit juice of the same kind. The water added must display

appropriate characteristics, particularly from the chemical,

microbiological and organoleptic viewpoints, in such a way

as to guarantee the essential qualities of the juice.

The product thus obtained shall display organoleptic

and analytical characteristics at least equivalent to those of

an average type of juice obtained from fruits of the same kind

within the meaning of point (a). The minimum Brix levels

from fruit juices from concentrate are indicated in the Fifth

Schedule.”.

Immediately after the Fourth Schedule to the principal

regulations, there shall be added the following new schedule

Fifth Schedule.”.

Adds the Fifth Schedule to the principal regulations.

Immediately after the Fourth Schedule to the principal regulations, there

VERŻJONI

ELETTRONIKA

B

shall be added the following

new

schedule

“Fifth Schedule

Fruit’s Common Name

Botanical Name

Minimum degree Brix

values for reconstituted fruit

juice and reconstituted fruit

purée

2

Apple (*)

Malus domestica Borkh.

Apricot (**)

Prunus armeniaca L.

11.2

Banana (**)

Musa sp.

0

Blackcurrant (*)

Ribes nigrum L.

11.6

Grape (*)

Vitis vinifera L. or hybrids

15.9

thereof Vitis labrusca L. or

hybrids thereof

Grapefruit (*)

Citrus x paradise Macfad.

10.0

Guava (**)

Psidium guajava L.

9.5

Lemon (*)

Citrus limon (L.) Burm.f.

8.0

Mango (**)

Mangifera indica L.

15.0

Orange (*)

Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck

11.2

Passion Fruit (*)

Passiflora edulis Sims

13.5

Prunus persica (L.) Batsch

Peach (**)

10.0

var. Persica

Pear (**)

Pyrus communis L.

11.9

Pineapple (*)

Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.

12.8

Raspberry (*)

Rubus idaeus L.

7.0

Sour Cherry (*)

Prunus cerasus L.

13.5

Strawberry (*)

Fragaria x ananassa Duch.

7.0

11.2

Mandarin (*)

Citrus reticulata Blanco

If a juice from concentrate is manufactured from a fruit not mentioned in the above list,

Adds the Fifth Schedule to the principal

var. regulations.

Persica

Pear (**)

Immediately after the

Pyrus

Fourth

communis

Schedule L. to the principal regulations,

11.9

there

shall be added the following new schedule

VERŻJONI

Ananas ELETTRONIKA

12.8 B

Pineapple (*)

comosus (L.) Merr.

“Fifth Schedule

Raspberry

Common (*) Name

L.

Minimum 7.0

Rubus

idaeus

Fruit’s

Botanical

Name

degree Brix

values for reconstituted fruit

juice and reconstituted

fruit

Sour Cherry (*)

Prunus cerasus L.

13.5

purée

11.2

Apple (*) (*)

Malus domestica

Borkh.

Strawberry

Fragaria

x ananassa

Duch.

7.0

11.2

Apricot (**)

Prunus

armeniaca

L.

Mandarin

(*)

Citrus

reticulata

Blanco

If a juice Banana

from concentrate

is manufactured

from

sp. a fruit not mentioned in the

21.0 above list,

(**)

Musa

the minimum Brix level of the reconstituted juice shall be the Brix level of the juice as

extracted from the fruit used to make the concentrate.

Blackcurrant

(*)

Ribes nigrum

L. are produced as a juice,

11.6 a

For those

products marked

with an asterisk

(*), which

minimum relative density is determined as such in relation to water at 20/20 °C.

For those Grape

products

(*) marked with Vitis

two asterisks

(**),

which are produced as 15.9

a purée, only a

vinifera L.

or hybrids

minimum uncorrected Brix reading

(without

correction

of

acid)

is

determined.

thereof Vitis labrusca L. or

In respect of blackcurrant, guava, mango

and thereof

passion fruit, the minimum Brix degree

hybrids

values only apply to reconstituted fruit juice and reconstituted fruit purée produced in the

Community.”.