Extraction Solvents for Foodstuffs

L.N. 373 of 2018

FOOD SAFETY ACT

(CAP. 449)

Extraction Solvents for Foodstuffs

(Amendment) Regulations, 2018

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

Safety Act, the Minister for Health has made the following

regulations:-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Extraction

Solvents for Foodstuffs (Amendment) Regulations, 2018 and these

regulations shall be read and construed as one with the Extraction

Solvents for Foodstuffs Regulations, hereinafter referred to as the

"principal regulations".

(2) These regulations shall come into force on the 8th

November 2018.

The aim of these regulations is to adopt the provisions of

Directive (EU) 2016/1855 of 19 October 2016 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.

The item "Dimethyl ether" in regulation 3.3 of the principal

regulations shall be substituted by the following

"Dimethyl ether

Preparation of defatted animal

0,009 mg/kg in the defatted

protein products including

animal protein products

gelatine (*)

including gelatine

Preparation of collagen (**)

3 mg/kg in the collagen and

collagen derivatives, except

and collagen derivatives,

except gelatine

gelatine

"Gelatine" means natural, soluble protein, gelling or non-gelling, obtained by the partial

hydrolysis of collagen produced from bones, hides and skins, tendons and sinews of animals,

in accordance with the relevant requirements of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004.

"Collagen" means the protein-based product derived from animal bones, hides, skins and

tendons manufactured in accordance with the relevant requirements of Regulation (EC) No

853/2004.".

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