Flour

(asked on 22nd October 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that UK milled flour fortified in line with the Bread and Flour Regulations 1998 will be recognised as compliant with EU rules after the transition period.


Answered by
Victoria Prentis Portrait
Victoria Prentis
Attorney General
This question was answered on 2nd November 2020

As a matter of public health, national measures contained in UK Bread and Flour rules require the mandatory addition of minimum levels of calcium, iron, niacin and thiamine to most wheat flour (except wholemeal) sold in the UK. As food is a devolved matter Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales are responsible in their respective nations.

The EU does not have an equivalent ruling on bread and flour, but it has laid down harmonised measures on the addition of vitamins and minerals to food more generally. There is nothing within the existing national rules on bread and flour that prevents businesses wishing to export goods to the EU from also complying with EU rules.

It is the Government’s future intention to review domestic requirements on bread and flour further to ensure they continue to meet national interests fully.

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