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Food Alert: for Information
Ref: 41/2004 (Update 1) (England): 42/2004 (Update 1) (Scotland)
Local authorities were advised in FHW 41/2004 of a survey conducted by the Food Standards Agency of erucic acid in certain foods preserved in oil.
Heads of Environmental Health Services and Directors of Trading Standards will wish to be aware that, since that time, we have been notified of further products in which erucic acid has been found to exceed the statutory limit, as prescribed by the Erucic Acid in Food Regulations 1977, i.e.
(a) erucic acid is more than 5% of the fatty acid content of any oil or fat or mixture of the two, or
(b) for foods with more than 5% total fat content, the erucic acid comprises more than 5% of the fatty acid content of all the oil or fat in the case of a food to which oil and/or fat has been added.
(c) where a product to which oil and/or fat have been added is aimed explicitly or implicitly at young children and infants, the same conditions in (b) apply except there is no minimum fat level, all such foods must comply irrespective of total fat content.
All the products listed in the attached annex are subject to a trade withdrawal.
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