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Mineral Oil in Food Regulations

[CAP. 132

MINERAL OIL IN FOOD REGULATIONS

(Cap. 132, section 55)

[30 November 1962.]

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G.N.A. 115/62.

L.N. 67/85. 10 of 1986. L.N. 333/87.

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These regulations may be cited as the Mineral Oil in Food

Citation.

1. Regulations.

2. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires Interpretation.

"mineral oil" means any hydro-carbon product, whether liquid,

semi-liquid or solid, derived from any substance of mineral origin and includes liquid paraffins (otherwise known as kero- sene), white oils, petroleum jellies and hard paraffins.

3. Except as provided in regulation 4-

(a) no person shall use or permit to be used any mineral oil in the composition or preparation of any article of food intended for sale for human consumption;

(b) no person shall sell or offer, expose, possess or manufac- ture for sale for human consumption any article of food containing any mineral oil.

4.

Regulation 3 shall not apply where-

(a) the amount of mineral oil contained in any article of food does not exceed 0.2 parts by weight of mineral oil per 100 parts by weight of the article of food; and

(b) the presence of mineral oil in any article of food is due not to its inclusion as an ingredient in the article of food but to its use as a lubricant or greasing agent on some surface with which the article of food has necessarily to come into contact in the course of its preparation.

5.

Any person who contravenes the provisions of regulation 3 shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $25,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.

6. Without prejudice to the provisions of any other enact- ment relating to the prosecution of criminal offences and without prejudice to the powers of the Attorney General in relation to the prosecution of such offences, prosecutions for an offence under any of the provisions of these regulations may be brought, in the case of offences committed in----

(a) Urban Council area, in the name of the Urban Council;

(b) the Regional Council area, in the name of the Regional

Council.

Prohibition of sale of food containing mineral oil.

Exemption from prohibition.

Offence and penalty. L.N. 333/87.

Name in which proceedings for offences may be brought. L.N. 67/85.

10 of 1986, s. 32(2),

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