Health and Sport Committee
Meeting date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Official Report
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Subordinate Legislation
Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Scotland) Regulations 2010 (SSI 2010/327)
Food Irradiation (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2010 (SSI 2010/328)
Contaminants in Food (Scotland) Regulations 2010 (SSI 2010/329)
Good morning. I welcome everyone to the Health and Sport Committee’s 30th meeting in 2010. I apologise for the delay in starting and remind everyone to switch off mobile phones and other electronic equipment.
No apologies have been received. I welcome Gil Paterson MSP, who is attending the meeting for oral evidence taking on his Palliative Care (Scotland) Bill.
Item 1 on the agenda is consideration of three negative instruments that relate to the amendment of regulations regarding food safety standards to comply with the latest directives from the Council of the European Union on the issue.
Members have a cover note from the clerks that summarises the purpose of each set of regulations. As the Subordinate Legislation Committee had no substantive points to make on any of them, I do not propose to go through them one by one. If members have no comments to make on them, are they content not to make recommendations on any of the regulations?
Members indicated agreement.