Food law and the regulatory framework for artisan and small scale oil and conserve production, jams, jellies and marmalade, honey, oils and sugar.

The production of fruit jams, jellies and marmalades, sweetened chestnut puree, fruit curd, lemon cheese, flavoured curd and mincemeat in England are subject to The Jam and Similar Products (England) Regulations 2003. The 2003 Regulations do not apply to specifi

The Honey (England) Regulations 2015 set out the specifications with which a product must comply in order to be described as ‘honey’.

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The Food Safety Act 1990 predates general food law Regulation (EC) 178/2002 by some 12 years and remains the original source of domestic UK food law.

The Food Standards Agency summarises the main responsibilities of food businesses under the 1990 Act as being to ensure:

1. You do not include anything in food, remove anything from food or treat food in any way which means it would be damaging to the health of people eating it.
2. The food you serve or sell is of the nature, substance or quality which consumers would expect.
3. The food is labelled, advertised and presented in a way that is not false or misleading.

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Investigating and managing incidents to ensure food safety is a key part of the work of the Food Standards Agency (FSA). The Incidents and Resilience Unit of the FSA maintains the Incident Management Plan for Non-Routine Incidents. The FSA defines a food incident as:

"Any event where, based on the information available, there are concerns about actual or suspected threats to the safety, quality or integrity of food and/or feed that could require intervention to protect consumers’ interests. Quality should be considered to include food standards, authenticity and composition."

Food business operators are under a duty to cooperate with food authorities and, in particular, every food business operator must notify the appropriate food authority with details of each establishment under its control that carries out any of the stages of production, processing and distribution of food. This must be done in the way prescribed to register each establishment.