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Flavourings in Food Regulations 1992 (S.I. No. 1971 of 1992).

Country/Territory
United Kingdom
Territorial subdivision
Great Britain
Document type
Regulation
Date
1992
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Food & nutrition
Keyword
Food quality control/food safety Food additives Packaging/labelling
Geographical area
Atlantic Ocean Islands, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Atlantic, North Sea, North-East Atlantic, Northern Europe
Abstract

These Regulations implement Council Directive 88/388/EC as amended on the approximation of laws of the Member States relating to flavourings for use in foodstuffs and to source materials for their production. The principal provisions of these Regulations: (a) define relevant flavourings (reg. 2); (b) define purity criteria with which permitted flavourings must comply; (c) prohibit the sale of food having in it other than permitted flavourings; (d) prohibit the sale and advertisement for sale of flavourings for use as an ingredient in the preparation of food, which are not permitted flavourings; (e) prescribe labelling requirements and restrict business and consumer sales of relevant flavourings. "Relevant flavouring" means "flavouring which does not consist entirely of excepted material and the components of which include at least one of the following: (i) a flavouring substance; (ii) a flavouring preparataion; (iii) a process flavouring; (iv) a smoke flavouring. The terms used are defined in regulation 2. The text consists of 12 regulations and 3 Schedules.

Full text
English
Website
www.opsi.gov.uk

References - Legislation

Implements

Council Directive 88/388/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to flavourings for use in foodstuffs and to source materials for their production.

Legislation | European Union | 1988

Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, Food additives, Standards, Packaging/labelling, Internal trade

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Amended by

Flavourings in Food (Amendment) Regulations 1994 (S.I. No. 1486 of 1994).

Legislation | United Kingdom | 1994

Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, Food additives

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Repealed by

Flavourings in Food (England) Regulations 2010 (S.I. No. 2817 of 2010).

Legislation | United Kingdom | 2010

Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, Food additives, Packaging/labelling, Institution, Offences/penalties

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Flavourings in Food (Wales) Regulations 2010 (S.I. No. 2922 (W.243) of 2010).

Legislation | United Kingdom | 2010

Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, Food additives, Packaging/labelling, Institution, Offences/penalties

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Flavourings in Food (Scotland) Regulations 2010 (S.S.I. No. 439 of 2010).

Legislation | United Kingdom | 2010

Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, Food additives, Packaging/labelling, Institution, Offences/penalties

Source: FAO, FAOLEX