Food and Drugs (Food Fortification) (Amendment) Regulations, 2011

STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS SUPPLEMENT No. 30 14th October, 2011 STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS SUPPLEMENT to The Uganda Gazette No. 61 Volume CJV dated 14th October, 2011 Printed by UPPC, Entebbe, by Order of the Government. STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS 2011 No. 53. THE FOOD AND DRUGS (FOOD FORTIFICATION) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 2011. ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS. Regulation 1. Title. 2. Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations. 3. Amendment of regulation 4 of the principal Regulations. 4. Amendment of regulation 5 of the principal Regulations. 5. Insertion of a new Fifth Schedule to the principal Regulations. 385 STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS 2011 No. 53. The Food and Drugs (Food Fortification) (Amendment) Regulations, 2011 (Under section 41 of the Food and Drugs Act, Cap. 278) IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred on the minister responsible for health by section 41 of the Food and Drugs Act, these Regulations are made this 11th day of October, 2011 . 1. Title These Regulations may be cited as the Food and Drugs (Food Fortification) (Amendment) Regulations, 2011. 2. Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations. The Food and Drugs (Food Fortification) Regulations, 2005, in these regulations referred to as the principal Regulations, are amended in regulation 2 by inserting immediately after the definition of "diluents", the following "foodstuff' means a foodstuff defined in the Fifth Schedule;" 3. Amendment of regulation 4 of the principal Regulations Regulation 4 of the principal Regulations is amended by substituting for .sub regulation (1) the following "( 1) All foodstuffs in Uganda shall be fortified in accordance with national standards." 4. Amendment of regulation 5 of the principal Regulations Regulation 5 of the principal Regulations is amended by revoking sub regulation (1). 5. Insertion of a new Fiith Schedule to the principal Regulations There is inserted immediately after the Fourth Schedule of the principal Regulations, the following 386 "FIFTH SCHEDULE FOODSTUFF 1. Milled maize product, including maize meal and maize flour which produced in Uganda from industrial mills of a capacity of twenty met1 tonnes in twenty four continuous hours in a single or multiple m:i owned by the same producer or which is imported into Uganda. 2. Edible fat and oil which is produced in Uganda from industrial mi of a capacity ten metric tonnes in twenty four continuous hours in a sin or multiple mills owned by the same producer or which is imported ir Uganda. 3. Wheat flour, including white and brown flour which is produced Uganda from industrial mills or which is imported into Uganda." 387 Dr. ONDOA D. J. CHPJSTIN Minister of Heal,