Environmental Public Health (Food Hygiene) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

No. S 471

Environmental Public Health Act

(Chapter 95)

Environmental Public Health (Food Hygiene) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 113(1) of the Environmental Public Health Act, the Minister for the Environment hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Environmental Public Health (Food Hygiene) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into operation on 1st November 1999.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2 of the Environmental Public Health (Food Hygiene) Regulations (Rg 16) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately before the definition of “cooked food”, the following definition:

“ “chilled fresh”, in relation to raw meat, means raw meat stored in a refrigerated facility at a temperature not below 0º C and not above 4º C;”; and

(b)

by deleting the full-stop at the end of the definition of “street vendor” and substituting a semi-colon and, by inserting immediately thereafter the following definition:

“thawed frozen”, in relation to raw meat, means raw meat frozen and then thawed at a temperature not above 4º C.

New regulation 9A

3. The principal Regulations are amended by inserting, immediately after regulation 9, the following regulation:

“Licensee not to sell raw pork in any state other than chilled fresh, frozen or thawed frozen

9A. No licensee shall sell raw pork at his licensed premises unless the raw pork is chilled fresh, frozen or thawed frozen.”.

Amendment of regulation 11

4. Regulation 11 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by deleting the word “and” at the end of paragraph (d)(iii); and

(b)

by deleting the full-stop at the end of paragraph (e) and substituting the word “; and” and, by inserting immediately thereafter the following paragraph:

“(f)

raw pork that is thawed frozen is suitably wrapped or packed and a label is affixed to the wrapper or package stating in printed letters of not less than 5 millimetres in height —

(i)	the date on which the pork is thawed;
(ii)	the words “thawed from frozen pork”;
(iii)	the words “keep chilled, do not re-freeze”; and
(iv)	the words “to be consumed within 3 days from (the date referred to in sub-paragraph (i))”.”.

New regulations 11A and 11B

5. The principal Regulations are amended by inserting, immediately after regulation 11, the following regulations:

“Frozen pork to be thawed in approved manner

11A. A person engaged in the sale or preparation for sale of any raw pork that has been frozen shall only thaw the pork in a chiller maintained at a temperature not below 0º C and not above 4º C, or in such other manner as may be approved by the Commissioner in writing.

Storage of raw pork

11B. Any person who is engaged in the sale or preparation for sale of any raw pork shall —

(a)	in the case of raw pork that has been frozen, store the pork in a freezer, cold room or other refrigerated facility at all times; and
(b)	in the case of raw pork that is chilled fresh or thawed frozen, store the pork in a chiller at all times.”.

Deletion and substitution of Schedule

6. The Schedule to the principal Regulations is deleted and the following Schedule substituted therefor:

“THE SCHEDULE

Regulation 10(e)

TEMPERATUREs FOR STORAGE OF FOOD

Type of Food

Temperature

(1) Frozen meat

not above – 12º C

(2) Ice-cream

not above – 2º C

(3) Chilled meat (other than pork)

not below 0º C and not above 4º C

(4) Chilled fresh pork

not below 0º C and not above 4º C

(5) Thawed meat (other than pork)

not below 0º C and not above 4º C

(6) Thawed frozen pork

not below 0º C and not above 4º C

(7) Dairy products and any other product that is required to be stored at a chilled temperature as stated on its product label

not above 7º C.”.

[G.N. No. S 268/96]

Made this 27th day of October 1999.

TAN GEE PAW

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of the Environment,
Singapore.

[ENV/LD/39/3.1.2; AG/LEG/SL/95/97/1 Vol. 2]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 113(4) of the Environmental Public Health Act).

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