Notification of Marketing of Food for Particular Nutritional Uses (Scotland) Regulations 2002 (S.S.I. No. 50 of 2002).

The Regulations cover foodstuffs which, owing to their special composition or manufacturing process, are clearly distinguishable from foodstuffs for normal consumption and which are marketed as suitable for categories of consumers with disturbed digestive processes or metabolism or in a special physiological condition, or for infants or young children in good health, but which are neither covered, nor to be covered, by other Directives on specific types of foodstuffs for particular nutritional uses. Article 9 of the Directive requires notification to competent authorities of placing on the market of such products; the requirement applies when the product is manufactured or imported, and regulation 3 of these Regulations prohibits sale of products of that type by manufacturers and importers covered by the requirement unless they have complied with the notification requirements. Labelling provisions of the Directive are implemented in the Food Labelling Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1499).