The Food Supplements and Addition of Vitamins, Minerals and Other Substances (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

Who will this consultation be of most interest to?
Manufacturers and retailers of food supplements; manufacturers and retailers of foods other than food supplements, with added vitamins or minerals (‘fortified foods’); enforcement authorities; nutrition professionals and the wider general public who consume food supplements or fortified foods.

What is the subject of this consultation?
National regulations relating to Northern Ireland:

• (a) to permit the continued use in food supplements of 67 vitamin and mineral sources currently permitted for use under a legislative provision which expires on 31 December 2009
• (b) to give automatic effect to any future changes to the Annexes to Directive 2002/46/EC relating tovitamins, minerals and the sources of these permitted for use in food supplements
• (c) to provide for the execution and enforcement of Article 2 of the new Commission Regulation which adds one mineral to Annex I of Regulation (EC) 1925/2006 on addition of vitamins and minerals and of certain other substances to foods and 2 vitamin formulations and 8 mineral substances to Annex II.

What is the purpose of this consultation?
To seek comments on the draft Food Supplements and Addition of Vitamins, Minerals and OtherSubstances (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 and accompanying Impact Assessment. Separate legislation will need to be enacted in England, Scotland and Wales which will be subject to separate consultations in those parts of the United Kingdom.

This consultation has been prepared in accordance with the HM Government Code of Practice on Consultation, which states that a consultation must follow better regulation best practice, including carrying out an Impact Assessment (Regulatory Impact Assessment in Scotland). The assessment is included in the consultation documents.

We are interested in what you thought of this consultation and would therefore welcome your general feedback on both the consultation package and overall consultation process. If you would like to assist us to improve the quality of future consultations, please feel free to share your thoughts with us by using the consultation feedback questionnaire.

Consultation feedback questionnaire (Word)

Consultation feedback questionnaire (pdf)

In accordance with the FSA principle of openness our Information Centre at Aviation House will hold a copy of the completed consultation. The FSA will publish a summary of responses, which may include personal data, such as your full name. Disclosure of any other personal data would be made only upon request for the full consultation responses. If you do not want this information to be released, please complete and return the Publication of Personal Data Form. Return of this form does not mean that we will treat your response to the consultation as confidential, just your personal data.

Data protection form (Word)

Data protection form (pdf)

Within three months of a consultation ending we aim to publish a summary of responses received and provide a link to it from this page.

If, after three months, the summary is still not showing, please contact the person who was responsible for the original consultation. Alternatively, you can contact the FSA Consultation Co-ordinator by email: consultationcoordinator@foodstandards.gsi.gov.uk