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Bread and Flour Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2024 (SSI 2024/387)
The first item on our agenda is consideration of a negative instrument, the purpose of which is to introduce the mandatory fortification of non-wholemeal wheat flour with folic acid. That is intended to be a public health intervention that will work alongside other public health measures to help to reduce the incidence of foetal neural tube defects in Scotland by increasing the dietary intake of folic acid, and therefore blood folate levels, in women of child-bearing age.
The amendments that will be made by the instrument specify that mandatory flour fortification will take place by requiring that non-wholemeal wheat flour be fortified with folic acid in the specified quantities. The instrument amends the Bread and Flour Regulations 1998 in Scotland by introducing the mandatory requirement for non-wholemeal wheat flour to be fortified with folic acid, amending the required quantities of fortificants that are currently added to flour, introducing an exemption from the fortification requirements for small mills, and making other technical amendments.
The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee considered the instrument at its meeting on 14 January 2025 and made no recommendations in relation to the instrument. No motion to annul has been lodged in relation to the instrument.
As no members wish to make comments, I propose that the committee does not make any recommendations in relation to the instrument. Do members agree?
Members indicated agreement.
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