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The Products Containing Meat etc. (Scotland) Regulations 2014

Scottish Statutory Instrument 2014 No. 289 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
3 November 2014
In force from
13 December 2014
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Food, consumer protection, trading standards, product safety and age-restricted sales
Made under
(EC) No. 178/2002, Agency in accordance with section 48(4A) of the Food Safety Act 1990, Food Safety Act 1990

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These Regulations revoke and replace the Meat Products (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/6). They apply to Scotland (regulation 1). The Regulations prohibit the use of specified names in the sale and advertising of regulated products if the products do not satisfy specific compositional requirements (regulation 4 and the Schedule). The Regulations prohibit, subject to an exception, the sale of uncooked regulated products which include among their ingredients specified parts of the carcase of any mammalian species of animal (regulation 5). The Regulations impose an obligation on food authorities (as defined for Scotland by section 5(2) of the Food Safety Act 1990 (1990 c.16)) to enforce the Regulations (regulation 6). The Regulations apply certain provisions of the Food Safety Act 1990 (1990 c.16) with modifications (regulation 7). As well as revoking the Meat Products (Scotland) Regulations 2004, the Regulations also revoke the Meat Products (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2008 (S.S.I. 2008/97) and regulation 18(4) of the Food Additives (Scotland) Regulations 2009 (S.S.I. 2009/436) (regulation 8). These Regulations retain existing national provisions on the reserved descriptions for meat products which are both produced and sold in Scotland and therefore a Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment has not been completed.

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