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The Bread and Flour (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2024, 7 pages, English

The Bread and Flour (Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2024, English

The Bread and Flour (Wales) Regulations 2024, English and Welsh

The Bread and Flour (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024, 7 pages, English

The proposed instruments will update the Bread and Flour Regulations 1998 and the Bread and Flour Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 (collectively referred to below as 'the Regulations' or 'The Bread and Flour Regulations'). The changes will be introduced in Wales via the Bread and Flour (Wales) Regulations 2024.

Technical changes are being made to update current requirements to fortify non-wholemeal wheat flour and introduce the mandatory addition of folic acid.

The instrument also includes amendments to clarify requirements and definitions and introduce exemptions to avoid disproportionate impacts to businesses. These changes are not expected to significantly affect trade and will come into force on 1st October 2024.

An addition to the enforcement approach is also being incorporated, providing for the use of improvement notices as a frontline enforcement option, in the regulations for England, Northern Ireland and Wales. Scotland already have analogous enforcement provisions in place.