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The Food Safety Act 1990 provides the framework for food safety regulation in England and Wales. It creates offences for selling food that is unfit, injurious to health, or not of the nature, substance, or quality demanded, and provides enforcement powers for local authorities and the Food Standards Agency.
Pwyntiau allweddol
- Offence to sell food that does not comply with food safety requirements (s.8)
- Offence to sell food not of the nature, substance, or quality demanded (s.14)
- Offence to falsely describe or present food (s.15)
- Due diligence defence — reasonable precautions and all due diligence (s.21)
- Improvement and prohibition notices — enforcement powers for inspectors
- Emergency prohibition orders for immediate closure of food premises
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Hanes diwygiadau
1999 — Food Standards Act 1999
Created the Food Standards Agency.