No. S 444
Sale of Food Act
(CHAPTER 283)
Food
(Amendment No. 2)
Regulations 2012
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 56(1) of the Sale of Food Act, the Minister for National Development hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Food (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2012 and shall come into operation on 3rd September 2012.
Amendment of regulation 16A
2.  Regulation 16A of the Food Regulations (Rg 1) is amended —
(a)by deleting paragraph (1) and substituting the following paragraph:
“(1)  In these Regulations, “anti-foaming agent” means any substance which prevents or reduces foaming of the food.”; and
(b)by deleting sub-paragraphs (b) and (c) of paragraph (3) and substituting the following sub-paragraphs:
“(b)fruit juices and fruit cordials;
(c)non-alcoholic drinks; and
(d)jams, fruit jellies and marmalades.”.
Amendment of regulation 22
3.  Regulation 22(2) of the Food Regulations is amended by inserting, immediately after the words “benzyl alcohol,”, the word “beta-cyclodextrin,”.
Amendment of regulation 23
4.  Regulation 23 of the Food Regulations is amended ––
(a)by deleting sub-paragraphs (b) and (c) of paragraph (2) and substituting the following sub-paragraphs:
“(b)L-glutamic acid, mono-sodium L-glutamate, monopotassium L-glutamate, calcium di‑L‑glutamate, monoammonium L-glutamate and magnesium di-L-glutamate;
(c)Inosinic acid, guanylic acid, di-sodium 5’‑inosinate, di-potassium 5’-inosinate, calcium 5’-inosinate, disodium 5’-guanylate, di‑potassium 5’-guanylate and calcium 5’‑guanylate; and”; and
(b)by deleting paragraph (4).
Amendment of regulation 26
5.  Regulation 26(4) of the Food Regulations is amended by inserting, immediately after the word “crustaceans” in sub-paragraph (a), the words “and molluscs,”.
Amendment of regulation 31
6.  Regulation 31 of the Food Regulations is amended by deleting paragraph (7) (including the heading “Selenium”).
Amendment of regulation 32
7.  Regulation 32(3) of the Food Regulations is amended by inserting, immediately after the words “preservation of”, the words “liquid egg products,”.
Deletion and substitution of regulation 34
8.  Regulation 34 of the Food Regulations is deleted and the following regulation substituted therefor:
“Mycotoxins
34.—(1)  Subject to paragraphs (2), (3) and (4), no article of food shall contain any detectable amount of mycotoxins.
(2)  No person shall import, sell, advertise, manufacture, consign or deliver any article of food containing aflatoxin B1 or total aflatoxins (B1, B2, G1 and G2) in excess of 5 parts per billion.
(3)  No person shall import, sell, advertise, manufacture, consign or deliver any milk containing aflatoxin M1 in excess of 0.5 parts per billion.
(4)  No person shall import, sell, advertise, manufacture, consign or deliver the following foods containing patulin in excess of 50 parts per billion:
(a)fruit juice; or
(b)food containing fruit juice as ingredient.”.
New regulation 34A
9.  The Food Regulations are amended by inserting, immediately after regulation 34, the following regulation:
“3-monochloropropane-1,2-diol (3-MCPD)
34A.  No person shall import, sell, advertise, manufacture, consign or deliver any soy sauce or oyster sauce containing 3-monochloropropane-1,2-diol (3-MCPD) in excess of 20 parts per billion, calculated on 40% dry matter content.”.
Amendment of regulation 37
10.  Regulation 37 of the Food Regulations is amended by deleting paragraph (1) and substituting the following paragraph:
“(1)  No person shall import, sell, consign or deliver, or use or permit to be used in the preparation, packing, storage or delivery of, any food for sale if any package or container —
(a)contains more than 1 ppm of vinyl chloride monomer;
(b)yields, or is likely to yield, to its contents more than 0.01 ppm of vinyl chloride monomer; or
(c)yields, or is likely to yield, to its contents any compounds known to be carcinogenic, mutagenic or teratogenic or any other poisonous or injurious substance.”.
Amendment of Third Schedule
11.  Paragraph 1 of the Third Schedule to the Food Regulations is amended —
(a)by inserting, immediately below the last entry corresponding to item (a) of the table, the following entries corresponding thereto in the appropriate columns as shown hereunder:
“
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
 
or
Rosemary extract (lard, beef fat, poultry fat, sheep fat and porcine fat only)
50 (sum of carnosol and carnosic acid)
”; and
(b)by deleting the full-stop at the end of item (f) of the table, and by inserting, immediately after item (f), the following item and its corresponding entries in the appropriate columns as shown hereunder:
“
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
(g)Dehydrated meat
Rosemary extract
150 (sum of carnosol and carnosic acid)
or
Butylated hydroxanisole (B.H.A.)
200
or
Propyl gallate
200.
”.
Amendment of Fourth Schedule
12.  The Fourth Schedule to the Food Regulations is amended —
(a)by inserting, immediately below the item “Candied peel or cut and drained (syruped) peel”, the following item and its corresponding entry in the appropriate column as shown hereunder:
“
 
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Canned abalone (paua)
1,000
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
”;
(b)by inserting, immediately after the words “processed cheese” in the item “Cheese (excluding processed cheese)”, the words “and ripened cheese”;
(c)by inserting, immediately below the item “Cheese, processed”, the following item and its corresponding entries in the appropriate columns as shown hereunder:
“
 
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Cheese, ripened
 
 
 
1,000
 
 
50
 
”;
(d)by inserting, immediately below the item “Colouring matter, if in the form of a solution of a permitted colouring matter”, the following items and their corresponding entries in the appropriate columns as shown hereunder:
“
 
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Cooked molluscs, crustaceans and echinoderms
 
2,000
 
2,000
 
 
 
 
Crustaceans, uncooked
100
(in the edible portion)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
”;
(e)by inserting, immediately below the item “Fruits, dried (apples, apricots, figs, nectarines, peaches, pears, prunes, raisins)”, the following item and its corresponding entry in the appropriate column as shown hereunder:
“
 
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Fruits (fresh, whole and unpeeled, except longans and lychees)
30
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
”;
(f)by inserting, immediately below the item “Jellyfish, seasoned”, the following items and their corresponding entries in the appropriate column as shown hereunder:
“
 
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Longans (fresh, whole and unpeeled)
50
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lychees (fresh, whole and unpeeled)
50
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
”; and
(g)by inserting, immediately below the item “Sausages, or sausage meat”, the following item and its corresponding entries in the appropriate columns as shown hereunder:
“
 
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Semi-preserved fish and fish products, including molluscs, crustaceans and echinoderms
 
2,000
 
2,000
 
 
 
 
”.
Amendment of Sixth Schedule
13.  The Sixth Schedule to the Food Regulations is amended by inserting, immediately after the item “Curdlan;”, the item “Cyclodextrins, alpha- and gamma-;”.
Amendment of Seventh Schedule
14.  The Seventh Schedule to the Food Regulations is amended by inserting, immediately after the entry “Ferric saccharate” under the item “IRON” in item 2 of Part II, the entry “Ferrous ammonium phosphate”.
Amendment of Eighth Schedule
15.  The Eighth Schedule to the Food Regulations is amended —
(a)by inserting, immediately below the item “Beeswax;”, the following item:
“Beta-galactosidase (lactase from Kluyveromyces lactis);”;
(b)by inserting, immediately below the item “Glucono delta-lactone;”, the following item:
“Glucose oxidase (from Aspergillus niger);”;
(c)by inserting, immediately below the item “Lactitol;”, the following items:
“Lipase (triacylglycerol acylhydrolase from a genetically modified strain of Aspergillus niger);
Lipase, triacylglycerol (from a genetically modified strain of Aspergillus oryzae);”; and
(d)by inserting, immediately below the item “Propylene glycol;”, the following item:
“Protease (from Bacillus subtilis);”.
[G.N. Nos. S 515/2006; S 195/2011; S 175/2012]
Made this 27th day of August 2012.
BENNY LIM
Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of National Development,
Singapore.
[ND 202/1-76 V3; AG/LLRD/SL/283/2010/1 Vol. 2]
(To be presented to Parliament under section 56(4) of the Sale of Food Act).
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