The Food (Scotland) Act 2015 (Compliance Notice) Regulations 2023 come into force - Food Standards Scotland

Link: The Food (Scotland) Act 2015 Compliance Notice Regulations 2023

The Regulations provide authorised officers (AO) in food law with an additional enforcement option to rectify any breaches in food information or food composition standards that are contained within this Scottish Statutory Instrument (SSI). The Food Scotland Act 2015 s.42 and s.43 gave powers to bring into force the Compliance Notice.

This notice will give AOs who carry out official controls in food law, the flexibility to take a more graduated and proportionate approach to enforcing food labelling and composition standards regulations. Before the introduction of this notice, the only formal option AOs had was to submit a report to the Procurator Fiscal, which was found in some incidents to be disproportionate to the breach.

The main aim of this notice is to improve business compliance regarding information and composition standards of food products.