Food Standards Act 1999 (Chapter 28).

The main body of the Act is arranged as follows: The Food Standards Agency (sects. 1-5), concerns the establishment of the Agency, its main objective and its main organizational arrangements including the establishment of advisory committees; General functions in relation to food (sects. 6-8), confers on the Agency responsibility for developing food policy and advising Ministers and other public authorities, for advising consumers and other interested parties and for keeping abreast of developments relevant to its remit; General functions in relation to animal feedingstuffs (sect. 9) supplements the Agency's functions in relation to animal feed; Observations with a view to acquiring information (sects. 10-11) gives the Agency functions in relation to surveillance and provides powers to enable it to carry them out; Monitoring of enforcement action (sects. 12-16) gives the Agency a function of monitoring food and feedingstuffs law enforcement and provides powers to enable it to carry it out; Other functions of the Agency (sects. 17-21) describes the Secretary of State and the devolved authorities' powers to delegate the making of emergency orders to the Agency, the Agency's power to publish its advice, its functions under other Acts and supplementary functions (detailed functions under the Food Safety Act 1990 and other primary legislation are provided for in Schedule 3); General provisions relating to the functions of the Agency (sects. 22-25), concerns certain considerations which the Agency must observe in carrying out its functions; provides for directions by Ministers and the devolved authorities should the Agency fail to perform its duties, and allows for modification of enactments to allow disclosure of information to the Agency and publication by it; Miscellaneous provisions (sects. 26-35), sets out the functions no longer to be exercised by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland and makes various provisions for consultation with other parts of Government or the devolved administrations on aspects of food safety. It also allows secondary legislation to apply to animal feedingstuffs provisions equivalent to those of the Food Safety Act 1990, etc.; Final provisions (sects. 36-43).