Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Meeting date: Tuesday, May 31, 2022

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Subordinate Legislation

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Food and Feed Safety (Fukushima Restrictions) (Scotland) Revocation Regulations 2022 (SSI 2022/166)

The final item on our agenda is consideration of a negative instrument. This instrument will revoke retained Commission implementing regulation EU 2016/6 imposing?special conditions governing the import of feed and food originating or consigned from Japan following the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power station.

These regulations also revoke declaration OFFC 2019/S/003, which was made in terms of regulation 35 of the Official Feed and Food Controls (Scotland) Regulations 2009 and which also imposed controls on the import of certain food and feed from Japan as a result of the Fukushima nuclear accident.

The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee considered the instrument at its meeting on 24 May 2022, and made no recommendations, and no motions to annul have been received in relation to the instrument.

Do members have any comments?

Although I am in favour of the instrument, I have a concern about why the level of 100 becquerels per kg was set in the first place. If that has a negligible impact, should the level not have been higher?

Your comments are on the record.

As there are no further comments, I propose that the committee does not make any?recommendations in relation to this negative?instrument. Are we agreed?

Members indicated agreement.

At its next meeting, on 7 June, the committee will consider in private its draft report on its inquiry into alternative pathways to primary care.

That concludes the public part of our meeting.

12:27 Meeting continued in private until 12:41.