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Fruits, Legumes and Vegetables Regulations

Made 1978-05-01 · Text as of 2026-10-01

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Language
English
Kind
Regulation
Organisation
European Union
Country
Malta
Subjects
Food and nutrition
Keywords
food safety and quality, vegetables/legumes, fruits/edible nuts, internal trade, international trade
Categories
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  1. FRUITS, LEGUMES AND VEGETABLES [S.L.231.09 1 SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 231.09 FRUITS, LEGUMES AND VEGETABLES REGULATIONS 1st May, 1978 LEGAL NOTICE 8 of 1977. Title.1. The title of these Regulations is Fruits, Legumes and Vegetables Regulations. Interpretation.2. In these Regulations, "to sell" includes to offer, expose, advertise or keep for sale and to supply by way of compensation or otherwise. State of fruits, etc.3. (1) No person may sell, for human consumption, any fruits, legumes, vegetables or other like products which are unripe, rotten, fermented, artificially coloured, or which are in any way deteriorated or unfit for human consumption. (2) No person may sell, for human consumption, any potatoes or other tubers which are budding or frosted or affected with any such parasit ic disease as renders them injurious to health or otherwise unfit for human consumption. Importation of tomatoes. 4. No person may import any tomatoes unless each consignment thereof is accompanied by a document or documents, to the satisfaction of the Superintendent of Public Health, showing that the tomatoes of that consignment had not been treated with sewage or grown on land irrigated with sewage. Non-applicability of regulations. 5. These Regulations shall not apply to any fruits, legumes, vegetables or other like products, which are canned or otherwise preserved in sealed containers.

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