Food (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2020 - Singapore Statutes Online

No. S 424

Sale of Food Act

(CHAPTER 283)

Food (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2020

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 56(1) of the Sale of Food Act, the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Food (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2020 and come into operation on 1 June 2021.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2(1) of the Food Regulations (Rg 1) is amended by inserting, immediately after the definition of “premises”, the following definition:

“ “trans fatty acids” means the geometrical isomers of monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids having non‑conjugated, interrupted by at least one methylene group, carbon‑carbon double bonds in the trans configuration;”.

New sub-heading and regulation 36A

3. The Food Regulations are amended by inserting, immediately after regulation 36, the following sub‑heading and regulation:

“PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED OILS

Partially hydrogenated oils

36A.—(1) A person must not —

(a)	import any edible fat or oil that contain any partially hydrogenated oil for use as an ingredient of any other edible fat or oil or any prepacked food; or
(b)	use any edible fat or oil that contain any partially hydrogenated oil as an ingredient in the manufacture of any other edible fat or oil or any prepacked food.

(2) In these Regulations, “partially hydrogenated oil” means any edible fat or oil that has undergone the process of hydrogenation but is not fully saturated as a result of that process.”.

Amendment of regulation 78

4. Regulation 78 of the Food Regulations is amended by deleting paragraphs (3) and (4).

Amendment of First Schedule

5. The First Schedule to the Food Regulations is amended by deleting the following item:

“Any deodorised edible vegetable oil, whether hydrogenated or not, when forming an ingredient of any food other than edible fats and oils

Vegetable oil/fat qualified by the words ‘hydrogenated’ or ‘partially‑hydrogenated’ as appropriate.”,

and substituting the following item:

“Any deodorised edible vegetable oil that is fully hydrogenated or not hydrogenated, when forming an ingredient of any food other than edible fats and oils

Vegetable oil/fat qualified by the words ‘fully hydrogenated’ if appropriate.”.

[G.N. Nos. S 515/2006; S 195/2011; S 175/2012; S 444/2012; S 493/2013; S 816/2014; S 49/2016; S 152/2017; S 302/2017; S 146/2018; S 59/2019; S 580/2019; S 237/2020]

Made on 28 May 2020.

ALBERT CHUA

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of the Environment and
Water Resources,
Singapore.

[MEWR C030/01/114; AG/LEGIS/SL/283/2015/1 Vol. 4]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 56(4) of the Sale of Food Act).

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