The Contaminants in Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005
These Regulations revoke and re-enact with changes the Contaminants in Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 (S.R. 2004 No. 487) as amended—make provision for the execution and enforcement of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 466/2001 setting maximum levels for contaminants in foodstuffs (O.J. No. L77, 16.3.2001, p. 1, as corrected and amended) (“the Commission Regulation”); andimplement—Commission Directive 98/53/EC laying down the sampling methods and the methods of analysis for the official control of the levels for certain contaminant in foodstuffs (O.J. No. L201, 17.7.98, p. 93, as amended),Commission Directive 2001/22/EC laying down the sampling methods and the methods of analysis for the official control of the levels of lead, cadmium, mercury and 3-MCPD in foodstuffs (O.J. No. L77, 16.3.2001, p. 14, as corrected and amended),Commission Directive 2002/26/EC laying down the sampling methods and the methods of analysis for the official control of levels of ochratoxin A in foodstuffs (O.J. No. L75, 16.3.2002, p. 38 as amended),Commission Directive 2002/69/EC laying down the sampling methods and the methods of analysis for the official control of dioxins and the determination of dioxin-like PCBs in foodstuffs (O.J. No. L209, 6.8.2002, p. 5, as corrected and amended),Commission Directive 2003/78/EC laying down the sampling methods and the methods of analysis for the official control of the levels of patulin in foodstuffs (O.J. No. L203, 12.8.2003, p. 40),Commission Directive 2004/16/EC laying down the sampling methods and the methods of analysis for the official control of the levels of tin in canned foods (O.J. No. L42, 13.2.2004, p. 16), andCommission Directive 2005/10/EC laying down the sampling methods and the methods of analysis for the official control of the levels of benzo(a)pyrene in foodstuffs (O.J. No. L34, 8.2.2005, p. 15).