Statutory Instruments

1993 No. 1161

FOOD

The Emulsifiers and Stabilisers in Food (Amendment) Regulations 1993

Made

26th April 1993

Laid before Parliament

10th May 1993

Coming into force

31st May 1993

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Health and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in relation to England and Wales, and the Secretary of State for Scotland in relation to Scotland, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 6(4), 16(1)(a) and (e) and (3), 26(1) and (3) and 48(1) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to, the Food Safety Act 1990(1), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations, after consultation in accordance with section 48(4) of the said Act with such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by the Regulations:-

Title and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Emulsifiers and Stabilisers in Food (Amendment) Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 31st May 1993.

Interpretation

2. In these Regulations "the English and Welsh Regulations" means the Emulsifiers and Stabilisers in Food Regulations 1989(2) and "the Scottish Regulations" means the Emulsifiers and Stabilisers in Food (Scotland) Regulations 1989(3).

Amendment of the English and Welsh and the Scottish Regulations

3. In Part II of Schedule 1 to, respectively, the English and Welsh Regulations and the Scottish Regulations there shall be added, after the words "Commission Directive 90/612/EEC" in the entry relating to E473 Sucrose esters of fatty acids, the words "and Article 1 of Commission Directive 92/4/EEC"(4).

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 26th April 1993.

L.S.

John Selwyn Gummer

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health:

Cumberlege

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Health

23rd April 1993

David Hunt

Secretary of State for Wales

22nd April 1993

Hector Monro

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

22nd April 1993

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which apply to Great Britain, come into force on 31st May 1993.

The Regulations amend the Emulsifiers and Stabilisers in Food Regulations 1989 and the Emulsifiers and Stabilisers in Food (Scotland) Regulations 1989 by specifying that the purity criteria for sucrose esters of fatty acids given in Part II of Schedule 1 to both sets of Regulations are those contained in Council Directive 78/663/EEC as further amended by Commission Directive 92/4/EEC (OJ No.L55, 29.2.92, p. 96) (regulation 3).

(1)

1990 c. 16; "the Ministers" is defined in section 4(1) of the Act.

(2)

S.I. 1989/876; relevant amendment is S.I. 1992/165.

(3)

S.I. 1989/945; relevant amendment is S.I. 1992/165.

(4)

OJ No. L55, 29.2.92, p. 96.