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The Imported Food (Bivalve Molluscs and Marine Gastropods from Japan) Regulations 1992

UK Statutory Instrument 1992 No. 1601 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
3 July 1992
In force from
24 July 1992
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Food, consumer protection, trading standards, product safety and age-restricted sales
Made under
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 prohibit the importation into Great Britain of bivalve molluscs and marine gastropods (whether dead or alive) originating in Japan, and products thereof (regulation 2). The prohibition contained in regulation 2 of these Regulations gives effect to Commission Decision 92/293/EEC (OJ No. L155, 6.6.92, p39) which amends Commission Decision 92/91/EEC (OJ No. L32, 8.2.92, p37) and which requires, in the light of the existence of toxins capable of constituting a danger to public health, protective measures with respect to bivalve molluscs and marine gastropods originating in Japan. The Regulations replace the Imported Food (Safeguards against Paralytic Toxin) (Pectinidae from Japan) Regulations 1992 which are revoked, and extend the prohibition against importing scallops from Japan to all bivalve molluscs and marine gastropods from Japan. Contravention of regulation 2 is an offence (regulation 3). Various provisions of the Food Safety Act 1990 are applied for the purposes of the Regulations (regulation 4). The Regulations are to be enforced in England and Wales by district councils, London borough councils and the Common Council of the City of London, and in Scotland by district and islands councils, except that within the area of port health authorities in England and Wales or port local authorities in Scotland, they are instead to be enforced by those authorities (regulation 5).

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