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Statutory Instruments
Agriculture, england
Made
22nd October 2007
Laid before Parliament
26th October 2007
Coming into force
30th November 2007
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 66(1), 68(1), 74A and 84 of the Agriculture Act 1970(1), as read with regulation 14 of the Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000(2) and with Articles 2 and 6 of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002(3).
There has been consultation during the preparation of these Regulations in accordance with the requirements of section 84(1) of the Agriculture Act 1970 or as appropriate of Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council(4) laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety.
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Feed (Specified Undesirable Substances) (England) Regulations 2007 and come into force on 30th November 2007.
2.—(1) The Feeding Stuffs (England) Regulations 2005(5) are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (5).
(2) In paragraph 11(c)(iv) of Part 1 of Schedule 3 (contents of the statutory statement or other declaration etc), for the word “soluble” substitute “insoluble”.
(3) The table entries and footnotes comprising Chapter D of Schedule 5 (prescribed limits for undesirable substances) are replaced by the entries and footnotes set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.
(4) The table entries set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations are added at the end of the table in Schedule 6 (control of certain protein sources).
(5) In column 4 of Chapter A of Schedule 7 (permitted feeding stuffs intended for particular nutritional purposes and provisions relating to their use), opposite the entry in column 1 relating to reduction of cystine stones formation, for the word “acidifying” substitute “alkalising”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.
Dawn Primarolo
Minister of State,
Department of Health
22nd October 2007
Regulation 2(3)
(1)
Singly or combined, expressed as dieldrin. |
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(2)
Maximum level for aldrin and dieldrin, singly or combined, expressed as dieldrin. |
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(3)
Numbering system according to Parlar, prefixed by either “CHB” or “Parlar”: |
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| — CHB 26: 2-endo,3-exo,5-endo,6-exo,8,8,10,10-octochlorobornane, | ||
| — CHB 50: 2-endo,3-exo,5-endo,6-exo,8,8,9,10,10-nonachlorobornane, | ||
| — CHB 62: 2,2,5,5,8,9,9,10,10-nonachlorobornane. | ||
| Column 1: Undesirable substances | Column 2: Products intended for animal feed | Column 3: Maximum content in mg/kg of feeding stuffs referred to a moisture content of 12% |
|---|---|---|
| Aldrin(1) | All feeding stuffs | 0.01(2) |
| Dieldrin(1) | except: | |
| – fats and oils | 0.1(2) | |
| – feeding stuffs for fish | 0.02(2) | |
| Camphechlor (toxaphene) – sum of indicator congeners CHB 26, 50 and 62(3) | Fish, other aquatic animals, their products and by-products | 0.02 |
| except: | ||
| – fish oil | 0.2 | |
| Feeding stuffs for fish | 0.05 | |
| Chlordane (sum of cis- and trans-isomers and of oxychlordane, expressed as chlordane) | All feeding stuffs | 0.02 |
| except: | ||
| – fats and oils | 0.05 | |
| DDT (sum of DDT–, TDE– and DDE– isomers, expressed as DDT) | All feeding stuffs | 0.05 |
| except: | ||
| – fats and oils | 0.5 | |
| Endosulphan (sum of alpha– and beta–isomers and of endosulphansulphate expressed as endosulphan) | All feeding stuffs | 0.1 |
| except: | ||
| – maize and maize products derived from the processing thereof | 0.2 | |
| – oilseeds and products derived from the processing thereof, with the exception of crude vegetable oil | 0.5 | |
| – crude vegetable oil | 1.0 | |
| – complete feeding stuffs for fish | 0.005 | |
| Endrin (sum of endrin and delta-keto-endrin, expressed as endrin) | All feeding stuffs | 0.01 |
| except: | ||
| – fats and oils | 0.05 | |
| Heptachlor (sum of heptachlor and of heptachlorepoxide, expressed as heptachlor) | All feeding stuffs | 0.01 |
| except: | ||
| – fats and oils | 0.2 | |
| Hexachlorobenzene (HCB) | All feeding stuffs | 0.01 |
| except: | ||
| – fats and oils | 0.2 | |
| Hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) | ||
| – alpha-isomers | All feeding stuffs | 0.02 |
| except: | ||
| – fats and oils | 0.2 | |
| – beta-isomers | All feed materials | 0.01 |
| except: | ||
| – fats and oils | 0.1 | |
| All compound feeding stuffs | 0.01 | |
| except: | ||
| – compound feeding stuffs for dairy cattle | 0.005 | |
| – gamma-isomers | All feeing stuffs | 0.2 |
| except: | ||
| – fats and oils | 2.0 | |
1970 c.40. Section 66(1) contains definitions of the expressions “the Ministers”, “prescribed” and “regulations”. The definition of “the Ministers” was amended by the Transfer of Functions (Wales) (No. 1) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/272), Schedule 5, paragraph 1. Functions of “the Ministers”, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by S.I. 1999/672 and thereafter transferred to the Welsh Ministers by paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (2006 c.32). Those functions, so far as exercisable in relation to Scotland, were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (1998 c. 46). By virtue of S.I. 1999/3141, functions of the Secretaries of State for Wales and Scotland previously exercisable in relation to England ceased to be so exercisable and were transferred to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Section 74A was inserted by the European Communities Act 1972 (1972 c. 68), Schedule 4, paragraph 6. Back [1]
S.I. 2000/656. Back [2]
S.I. 2002/794. Back [3]
OJ No. L31, 1.2.2002, p.1, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No. 575/2006 (OJ No. L100, 8.4.2006, p.3). Back [4]
S.I. 2005/3281, as amended by S.I. 2006/113, S.I. 2006/2808 and S.I. 2006/3120. Back [5]
The Feed (Specified Undesirable Substances) (England) Regulations 2007