Food Safety Act 1990

Food Safety Act 1990

Infobox UK Legislation
short_title=Food Safety Act 1990
parliament=United Kingdom Parliament
long_title=An Act to make new provision in place of the Food Act 1984 (except Parts III and V), the Food and Drugs (Scotland) Act 1956 and certain other enactments relating to food; to amend Parts III and V of the said Act of 1984 and Part I of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985; and for connected purposes.
statute_book_chapter=1990 c. 16
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territorial_extent=Great Britain and certain sections extend to Northern Ireland
royal_assent=29 June 1990
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repeal_date=
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The Food Safety Act 1990, is an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It regulates the statutory obligation to treat food intended for human consumption in a controlled and managed way.

Definitions

advertisement includes any notice, circular, label, wrapping,invoice or other document or presentation, and any broadcast orpublic announcement by visual or acoustic presentation or both,and "to advertise" shall be construed accordingly;

authorised technique shall not include any technique whichinvolves no more than, or no more than the assistance of, naturallyoccurring processes of reproduction, including selective breedingtechniques or in vitrio fertilisation;

authorised officer means any person suitably qualified to thesatisfaction of the health authority;

authorised place means any port, airport or other placeauthorised by or under the regulations which is used, or is capableof being used, for the importation or exportation of food or foodsources, and, in relation to food in a particular consignment,includes any place so authorised for the importation of thatconsignment;

commercial operation in relation to any food or contactmaterial means any of the following:
# selling, possessing for sale, and offering, exposing or advertising for sale;
# consigning, delivering or serving by way of sale;
# preparing for sale or presenting, labelling or wrapping for the purpose of sale;
# storing or transporting for the purpose of sale;

Rules

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*No person shall engage in any food business unless such person, the food business and the food premises to be used for that purpose are registered with and, where required by or under this Act, licensed by the health authority.
*Any person who, in carrying out any food business, knowingly renders any food intended to be sold for human consumption injurious to health by any means whatsoever shall be guilty of an offence against this article.

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