(1) These regulations may be called the Food Safety and Standards (Recognition and Notification of Laboratories) Regulations, 2018.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
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2. Definitions (1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, --
(a) “Act” means the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 (34 of 2006);
(b) “accreditation” means a third party attestation of the competence of a food laboratory to carry out its function effectively;
(c) “accreditation body” means an authority that performs accreditation;
(d) “adequacy audit” means an audit conducted on site prior to notifying a laboratory to ensure that essential requirements of testing and other related facilities are available in a food laboratory;
(e) “audit” means an audit conducted after notifying a food laboratory to ensure its overall competence to carry out testing of food items and maintenance of specified standards in accordance with the provisions of the Act and the rules and regulations made thereunder;
(f) “notified food laboratory” means a food laboratory notified by the Food Authority under sub-section (1) of section 43;
(g) “referral food laboratory” means a food laboratory established or recognized by notification by the Food Authority under sub section (2) of section 43;
(h) “reference food laboratory” means a food laboratory referred to in regulation 3;
(i) “section” means a section of the Act.
(2) All words and expressions used herein and not defined, but defined in the Act, rules or regulations made thereunder, shall have the meanings as assigned to them in the Act, rules or regulations, respectively.