Novel Foods and Novel Food Ingredients Regulations 1997 (S.I. No. 1335 of 1997).

These Regulations provide for the enforcement and execution of certain specified provisions of Regulation (EC) No. 258/97 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning novel foods and novel food ingredients. In particular these Regulations: (a) Designate the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State for Health to act jointly as the food assessment body in Great Britain for the purposes of Regulation (EC) No. 258/97 (reg. 3); (b) Appoint food authorities to enforce and execute the provisions of Regulation (EC) No. 258/97 and of these Regulations (reg. 4), and; (c) Specify certain provisions of Regulation (EC) No. 258/97 and establish penalties for contravening those provisions (reg. 5 and the Schedule)