Singapore legislation
Regulation 35
Regulation 35
Microbiological standards
Subregulation 1
A person must not import, sell, manufacture or produce for sale, any article of ready-to-eat food that does not comply with any relevant microbiological standard specified in the Eleventh Schedule.
Subregulation 1A
A person must not import, sell, manufacture or produce for sale, any article of non-ready-to-eat food unless —
that article complies with each relevant microbiological standard specified in the Eleventh Schedule; or
there is no relevant microbiological standard for that article specified in that Schedule.
Subregulation 2
In these Regulations —
Definition
“non-ready-to-eat food” means any food that is not ready-to-eat food;
Definition
“ready-to-eat food” —
means any article of food that is made available for sale for direct human consumption without the need for cooking or any other form of processing to eliminate, or reduce to a microbiological standard specified in the Eleventh Schedule, any pathogenic or other micro-organism of concern in the article of food; and
includes cup noodles, fruit juice cordial, squash or syrup, powdered beverages and other concentrated food which are meant to be reconstituted or diluted with fluids before consumption.