Regulations, 2011

L.N. 67 of 2011

FOOD SAFETY ACT

(CAP. 449)

Materials in Contact with 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 Materials in Citation and

Contact with Foodstuffs (Amendment) Regulations, 2011, and they commencement.

shall be read and construed as one with the Materials in Contact

with Foodstuffs Regulations, 2003, hereinafter referred to as “the L.N. 138 of 2003.

principal regulations”.

(2) These regulations shall be deemed to have come

into force on the 15 February, 2011.

(1) Regulation 3 implements the provisions of

Commission Directive 2011/8/EU of 28 January 2011 amending

Directive 2002/72/EC as regards the restriction of use of Bisphenol

A in plastic infant feeding bottles.

(2) The manufacture of plastic materials and articles

intended to come into contact with foodstuffs which do not comply

with Directive 2011/8/EU amending Directive 2002/72/EC, shall

be prohibited as from 1 March 2011.

(3) The placing on the market and importation into

the Union of plastic materials and articles intended to come into

contact with foodstuffs which do not comply with Directive

2011/8/EU amending 2002/72/EC, shall be prohibited as from 1

June 2011.

In the Fifth Schedule to the principal regulations, in

Section A in Part II thereof, immediately after item 5 thereof, there

shall be added the following item

B

“6. Commission Directive 2011/8/EU (OJ L 26,

29. 1.2011, p. 11-14)”. €0.09