Condensed Milk and Dried Milk Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Statutory Rule 2003 No. 300

Condensed Milk and Dried Milk Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

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STATUTORY RULES OF NORTHERN IRELAND

2003 No. 300

FOOD

Condensed Milk and Dried Milk Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

	Made	10th June 2003
	Coming into operation	21st July 2003

Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Condensed Milk and Dried Milk Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 21st July 2003.

Interpretation

12.

In these Regulations -

"the 1996 Regulations" means the Food Labelling Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996[

"catering establishment" means a restaurant, canteen, club, public house, school, hospital or similar establishment (including a vehicle or a fixed or mobile stall) where, in the course of a business, food is prepared for delivery to the ultimate consumer and is ready for consumption without further preparation;

"designated product" means any food specified in column 2 of Schedule 1 (as read with the Notes relating to that Schedule);

"EEA State" means a State which is a Contracting Party to the EEA Agreement;

"the Order" means the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991;

"partly dehydrated milk" means the liquid product, whether or not sweetened, obtained directly by the partial removal of water from milk, from wholly or partly skimmed milk or from a mixture of those products and includes such a product to which cream or totally dehydrated milk has been added, provided the addition of totally dehydrated milk does not exceed, in the finished product, 25% of total milk solids;

"preparation" includes manufacture and any form of processing or treatment;

"reserved description", as respects any designated product, means any description specified in relation to that product in column 1 of Schedule 1 or any alternative description permitted by Schedule 2;

"sell" includes offer or expose for sale or have in possession for sale;

"totally dehydrated milk" means the solid product, where the water content does not exceed 5% by weight of the finished product, obtained directly by the removal of water from milk, from wholly or partly skimmed milk, from cream or from a mixture of those products;

"total milk solids" means all the constituents of milk other than water, including milk fat, the constituents other than milk fat being present in their natural proportions; and

"ultimate consumer" means any person who buys otherwise than -

Scope of the Regulations
3. These Regulations apply to designated products, intended for human consumption and ready for delivery to the ultimate consumer or to a catering establishment.

Reserved descriptions
4. No person shall sell any food with a label, whether or not attached to or printed on the wrapper or container, which bears, comprises or includes any reserved description or any derivative thereof or any word or description substantially similar thereto unless -

(a) such food is the designated product to which the reserved description relates;

(b) such description, derivative or word is used in such a context as to indicate explicitly or by clear implication that the substance to which it relates is only an ingredient of that food; or

(c) such description, derivative or word is used in such a context as to indicate explicitly or by clear implication that such food is not and does not contain a designated product.

Labelling and description of designated products
5. Without prejudice to the generality of Part II of the 1996 Regulations, no person shall sell any designated product unless it is marked or labelled with the following particulars -

(a) the reserved description of the product;

(b) except in the case of the products specified in paragraphs 1(d) and (g) and 2(d) of Schedule 1, the percentage of milk fat, expressed by weight in relation to the finished product;

(c) except in the case of the products specified in paragraph 2(a) to (d) of Schedule 1, the percentage of fat-free dried milk extract;

(d) in the case of the products specified in paragraph 2(a) to (d) of Schedule 1, the recommendations as to the method of dilution or reconstitution and the details of the fat content of the product when diluted or reconstituted;

(e) in the case of the products specified in paragraph 2(a) to (d) of Schedule 1, that the product is "not intended as a food for infants under 12 months".

Manner of marking or labelling
     6. - (1) Regulations 35, 36(1) and (5) and 38 of the 1996 Regulations (which relate to the manner of marking or labelling of food) shall apply to the particulars with which a designated product is required to be marked or labelled by regulation 5 as if they were particulars with which food is required to be marked or labelled by the 1996 Regulations.

    (2) The particulars which are required to appear on the label by virtue of regulation 5(b) and (c) shall appear near the name of the product.

    (3) Where designated products weighing less than 20 grams per unit are packed in an outer packaging, the particulars required by regulation 5(b) to (e) need appear on the outer packaging only.

Penalties and enforcement
     7. - (1) If any person contravenes regulation 4 or 5 he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.

    (2) Each district council shall enforce and execute these Regulations within its district.

Defence in relation to exports

    (8) In any proceedings for an offence under these Regulations it shall be a defence for the person accused to prove -

(a) that the food in respect of which the offence is alleged to have been committed was intended for export to a country which has legislation analogous to these Regulations and that the food complies with that legislation; and

(b) in the case of export to an EEA State, that the legislation complies with the provisions of Council Directive 2001/114/EC[

Application of provisions of the Order
9. The following provisions of the Order shall apply for the purposes of these Regulations and any reference in those provisions to the Order shall be construed for the purposes of these Regulations as a reference to these Regulations -

(a) Articles 2(4) and 3 (extended meaning of "sale" etc.);

(b) Article 4 (presumptions that food intended for human consumption);

(c) Article 19 (offences due to fault of another person);

(d) Article 20 (defence of due diligence) as it applies for the purposes of Article 7, 13 or 14 of the Order;

(e) Article 21 (defence of publication in the course of a business);

(f) Article 30(8) (which relates to documentary evidence);

(g) Article 34 (obstruction, etc., of officers);

(h) Article 36 (punishment of offences) in so far as it relates to offences under Article 34(1) and (2) as applied by paragraph (g).

(2) Article 29 of the Order (procurement of samples) shall apply in relation to the sampling for analysis of designated products for the purposes of these Regulations with the modification that the powers of an authorised officer under that Article and the duties of such an officer under any regulations made under the Order, shall be exercised and performed in accordance with the methods described in the Annex to Directive 87/524/EEC.

Amendments and revocations
10. - (1) In the 1996 Regulations the following provisions shall be omitted -

(a) in regulation 4(2) (scope of Part II) sub-paragraph (d);

(b) in regulation 49 (revocations and amendments), paragraph (5).

(2) The following entries relating to the Condensed Milk and Dried Milk Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1977[10] shall be omitted -

(3) The following statutory provisions are hereby revoked -

(4) In the Colours in Food Regulations (Northern Ireland 1996[20], in Schedule 2, paragraph 6, for "Directive 76/118/EEC" there is substituted "Directive 2001/114/EC".

(5) In the Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 -

Transitional provision
11. In any proceedings for an offence under these Regulations it shall be a defence for the person charged to prove that -

(a) the food concerned was marked or labelled before 17th July 2004, and

(b) the matters constituting the alleged offence would not have constituted an offence under the Condensed Milk and Dried Milk Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1977 as they stood immediately before the coming into operation of these Regulations.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on

10th June 2003.

L.S.

W. B. Smith
A Senior Officer of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety

SCHEDULE 1

Regulation 2

PARTLY OR WHOLLY DEHYDRATED PRESERVED MILK PRODUCTS AND THEIR RESERVED DESCRIPTIONS

Column 1	Column 2
Reserved descriptions	Designated products
1. Partly dehydrated milk
- Types of unsweetened condensed milk
(a) Condensed high-fat milk	Partly dehydrated milk containing, by weight, not less than 15% fat, and not less than 26.5% total milk solids.
(b) Condensed milk	Partly dehydrated milk containing, by weight, not less than 7.5% fat, and not less than 25% total milk solids.
(c) Condensed, partly skimmed milk	Partly dehydrated milk containing, by weight, not less than 1% and less than 7.5% fat, and not less than 20% total milk solids.
(d) Condensed skimmed milk	Partly dehydrated milk containing, by weight, not more than 1% fat, and not less than 20% total milk solids.
- Types of sweetened condensed milk
(e) Sweetened condensed milk	Partly dehydrated milk with an admixture of sucrose (semi-white sugar, white sugar or extra-white sugar) and containing, by weight, not less than 8% fat and not less than 28% total milk solids.
(f) Sweetened condensed, partly skimmed milk	Partly dehydrated milk with an admixture of sucrose (semi-white sugar, white sugar or extra-white sugar) and containing, by weight, not less than 1% and less than 8% fat, and not less than 24% total milk solids.
(g) Sweetened condensed skimmed milk	Partly dehydrated milk with an admixture of sucrose (semi-white sugar, white sugar or extra-white sugar) and containing, by weight, not more than 1% fat and not less than 24% total milk solids.
2. Totally dehydrated milk
(a) Dried high-fat milk or high-fat milk powder	Totally dehydrated milk containing, by weight, not less than 42% fat.
(b) Dried whole milk or whole milk powder	Totally dehydrated milk containing, by weight, not less than 26% and less than 42% fat.
(c) Dried partly skimmed milk or partly skimmed-milk powder	Totally dehydrated milk with a fat content of more than 1.5% and less than 26% by weight.
(d) Dried skimmed milk or skimmed-milk powder	Totally dehydrated milk containing, by weight, not more than 1.5% fat.

Notes:

1. Any designated product may contain any product pursuant to Council Directive 89/107/EEC on the approximation of laws of member States concerning food additives authorised for use in foodstuffs intended for human consumption[

4. The levels of dry matter, moisture content, fat, sucrose, lactic acid and lactates and phosphatase activity in the designated products shall be determined in accordance with the methods set out in Directive 79/1067.

SCHEDULE 2

Regulation 2

ALTERNATIVES TO THE RESERVED DESCRIPTIONS SPECIFIED IN SCHEDULE 1

     1. "Evaporated milk" may be used instead of "condensed milk" in the case of partly dehydrated milk containing, by weight, at least 9% fat and 31% total milk solids.

     2. "Evaporated semi-skimmed milk" may be used instead of "condensed partly skimmed milk" in the case of partly dehydrated milk containing, by weight, between 4% and 4.5% fat and not less than 24% total milk solids.

     3. "semi-skimmed milk powder" or "dried semi-skimmed milk" may be used instead of "dried partly skimmed milk" or "partly skimmed-milk powder" in the case of totally dehydrated milk with a fat content of between 14% and 16%.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations implement Council Directive 2001/114/EC relating to certain partly or wholly dehydrated preserved milk products intended for human consumption (O.J. No. L19, 17.1.2002, p.19). They revoke and replace the Condensed Milk and Dried Milk Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1977, as amended.

The Regulations -

Notes:

[1] Formerly the Department of Health and Social Services; see S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1), Article 3

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[2] S.I. 1991/762 (N.I. 7) as amended by S.I. 1996/1633 (N.I. 12) and paragraphs 26 to 42 of Schedule 5 and Schedule 6 to the Food Standards Act 1999 c. 28 back

[3] O.J. No. L31, 1.2.2002, p. 1 back

[4] S.R. 1996 No. 383; the relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1998 No. 253, S.R. 1999 Nos. 143, 242 and 286, S.R. 2000 Nos. 189 and 303, S.R. 2001 No. 45 and S.R. 2003 No. 159 back

[5] O.J. No. L327, 24.12.1979, p. 29 back

[6] O.J. No. L306, 28.10.1987, p. 24 back