Erucic acid in food Regulations 1987.

These Regulations, as regards the territory of Gibraltar, are setting the food safety standards and issues related to the use of eruric acids in foodstuff intended for human consumption. As Defined in this text, eruric acid is a fatty acid cis-docos-13-enoic acid, or any carboxylic acid obtained by the hydrolysis of oil or fat, and includes any such acid existing in a free state in oil or fat.
This text is divided into 7 different sections as follows: Title and Commencement; Interpretation; Exemptions; Sale of oil or fat and of food to which oil or fat has been added; Determination of erucic acid content; Penalties; Application of various sections of the Act.
This text also involves the following document: Commission Directive 80/891/EEC of 25 July 1980 relating to the Community method of analysis for determining the erucic acid content in oils and fats intended to be used as such for human consumption and foodstuffs containing added oils or fats.
The provisions of these Regulations shall not apply to any oil, fat or food which is intended at the time of sale, consignment or delivery, as the case may be, for exportation to any place outside Gibraltar; to any food which contains not more than 5% oil or fat unless it is described directly or by implication as specially prepared for infants or young children; to any oil, fat or food sold, consigned or delivered to a manufacturer for the purposes of his manufacturing business or to a caterer for the purposes of his catering business.