Official Feed and Food Controls Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. No. 482 of 2007).

These Regulations provide for the execution and enforcement of Regulation (EC) No. 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on official controls performed to ensure the verification of compliance with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules in relation to relevant feed law and relevant food law . This legislation is defined in Schedules 2 and 3 of these Regulations.
These Regulations also impose prohibitions on the introduction of certain feed and food into Northern Ireland in the light of Article 11 of Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety.
The principal changes to the revoked Regulations are: (a) the introduction into Northern Ireland of certain feed and food products is prohibited and a person who contravenes such a prohibition is guilty of an offence; (b) an authorized officer of an enforcement authority must serve a notice when he proposes to place a consignment of feed or food under official detention (i) in case of suspicion of non-compliance or because there is doubt as to the identity or the destination of the consignment, or (ii) because the feed or food does not comply with feed or food law; (c) a person who contravenes certain obligations relating to the checking of products that are introduced into Northern Ireland is guilty of an offence; and (d) the definitions of relevant feed law and relevant food law in Schedules 2 and 3 respectively are revised.