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Listen to this siteGuidance notes for Regulations in Wales.
Guidance Notes on certain of the provisions of the Draft Feeding Stuffs (Establishments And Intermediaries) Regulations 2004.
A food for a particular nutritional use is one which owing to its special composition or process of manufacture, is clearly distinguishable from food intended for normal consumption and is sold in such a way as to indicate its suitability for its claimed particular nutritional purpose.
Guidance for Wales on regulation (EC) No 1829/2003, genetically modified food and feed; and regulation (EC) No 1830/2003, traceability and labelling and the traceability of food and feed products produced from genetically modified organisms, and amending Directive 2001/18.
The Food Standards Agency has issued guidance notes to provide advice in relation to Regulation 43 of the Official Feed and Food Controls (England) Regulations 2009. Parallel regulations apply in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
From 1 January 2010, food chain information (FCI) will be required for all cattle, sheep and goats submitted for slaughter for human consumption. The Agency has determined the minimum FCI that must be provided and has written to the relevant food business operators at slaughterhouses to provide them with this information.
The FSA has produced a number of guidance documents, which can be accessed from this page, to the 2006 regulations to help food businesses understand the legal requirements with which they will have to comply.
This document is an introductory guide to the main provisions. It is intended for the use of enforcement personnel and feed business operators (for example, feed manufacturers, importers, merchants, food businesses selling food products into the animal feed chain), including new businesses wishing to gain an understanding of the legislation.
Published 30 June 2009
Food Standards Agency guidance on illegal meat and poultry meat for food law enforcement officers in Wales is in the process of being updated. Following the introduction of the European Union Food Hygiene Regulations on 1 January 2006, much of the legislation contained with the guidance has been repealed.
An introductory guide to the provisions of the new legislation intended for the use of enforcement personnel and feed business operators (for example, feed manufacturers, importers, merchants and food businesses selling food products into the animal feed chain), including new businesses wishing to gain an understanding of the legislation.
This guidance provides information and advice to food authorities in Wales who have dairy herds and/or dairy establishments in their area producing raw cows� drinking milk and/or unpasteurised milk-based products.
The Food Safety (General Food Hygiene) (Butchers' Shops) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2000 cover Wales only and came into force on 31 December 2000. They amend the Food Safety (General Food Hygiene) Regulations 1995 to require the annual licensing by food authorities of retail butchers' shops and other retail outlets in Wales which handle unwrapped raw meat.
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