The Food Additives and Novel Foods (Authorisations and Miscellaneous Amendments) and Food Flavourings (Removal of Authorisations) (Scotland) Regulations 2024

PART 4 Food Flavourings Authorisations

Amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008

6.—(1) Annex 1 (domestic list of flavourings and source materials approved for use in and on foods) to Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008 is amended in accordance with paragraph (2).

(2) In Part A (domestic list of flavouring substance), Section 2, in Table 1, the following entries are omitted—

(a) FL No.(1) 07.030, chemical name 1-(4-Methoxyphenyl)pent-1-en-3-one, CAS No. 104-27-8(2),

(b) FL No. 07.046, chemical name Vanillylidene acetone, CAS No. 1080-12-2,

(c) FL No. 07.049, chemical name 1-(4-Methoxyphenyl)-4-methylpent-1-en-3-one, CAS No. 103-13-9,

(d) FL No. 07.206, chemical name 4-(2,3,6-Trimethylphenyl)but-3-en-2-one, CAS No. 56681-06-2,

(e) FL No. 07.258, chemical name 6-Methyl-3-hepten-2-one, CAS No. 2009-74-7,

(f) FL No. 10.034, chemical name 5,6-Dihydro-3,6-dimethylbenzofuran-2(4H)-one, CAS No. 80417-97-6,

(g) FL No. 10.036, chemical name 5,6,7,7a-Tetrahydro-3,6-dimethylbenzofuran-2(4H)-one, CAS No. 13341-72-5,

(h) FL No. 10.042, chemical name 3,4-Dimethyl-5-pentylidenefuran-2(5H)-one, CAS No. 774-64-1,

(i) FL No. 10.043, chemical name 2,7-Dimethylocta-5(trans),7-dieno-1,4-lactone, CAS No. 78548-56-8,

(j) FL No. 10.046, chemical name Hex-2-eno-1,4-lactone, CAS No. 2407-43-4,

(k) FL No. 10.054, chemical name Non-2-eno-1,4-lactone, CAS No. 21963-26-8,

(l) FL No. 10.060, chemical name 2-Decen-1,4-lactone, CAS No. 2518-53-8,

(m) FL No. 10.170, chemical name 5-Pentyl-3H-furan-2-one, CAS No. 51352-68-2,

(n) FL No. 13.004, chemical name Allyl 2-furoate, CAS No. 4208-49-5,

(o) FL No. 13.034, chemical name 3-(2-furyl)acrylaldehyde, CAS No. 623-30-3,

(p) FL No. 13.043, chemical name Furfurylidene-2-butanal, CAS No. 770-27-4,

(q) FL No. 13.044, chemical name 4-(2-Furyl)but-3-en-2-one, CAS No. 623-15-4,

(r) FL No. 13.046, chemical name 3-(2-Furyl)-2-methylprop-2-enal, CAS No. 874-66-8,

(s) FL No. 13.066, chemical name 3-Acetyl-2,5-dimethylfuran, CAS No. 10599-70-9,

(t) FL No. 13.103, chemical name 2-Butylfuran, CAS No. 4466-24-4,

(u) FL No. 13.137, chemical name 3-(2-Furyl)-2-phenylprop-2-enal, CAS No. 65545-81-5,

(v) FL No. 13.150, chemical name 3-(5-Methyl-2-furyl)prop-2-enal, CAS No. 5555-90-8.

Transitional provision

7.—(1) The flavouring substances referred to in regulation 6(2) and foods containing them may, until their date of minimum durability of a food or ‘use by’ date, be placed on the market and, as the case may be, added to other foods, if—

(a) present in the United Kingdom and were, or could have been, lawfully placed on the market in Great Britain before the end of 27 June 2024, or

(b) in transit to Great Britain before the end of 27 June 2024, and could have lawfully been imported, or moved into Great Britain, and placed on the market as at the date of dispatch.

(2) Foods containing one or more flavouring substances to which paragraph (1) applies may, until their date of minimum durability of a food or ‘use by’ date, be placed on the market and, as the case may be, added to other foods.

(3) In this regulation—

“date of minimum durability of a food” has the same meaning as provided in Regulation (EU) No1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the provision of food information to consumers, amending Regulations (EC) No 1924/2006 and (EC) No 1925/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Commission Directive 87/250/EEC, Council Directive 90/496/EEC, Commission Directive 1999/10/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, Commission Directives 2022/67/EC and 2008/5/EC and Commission Regulation (EC) No 608/2004(3) (see Articles 2(2)(r) and 24),

“‘use by’ date” has the same meaning as in Article 24 of Regulation (EU)1169/2011.

(1)

The FL No. is the unique identification number of the substance.

(2)

The CAS Registry Number assigned to the substance by the Chemical Abstracts Service https://www.cas.org/cas-data/cas-registry.

(3)

EUR 2011/1169, as relevantly amended by S.I. 2019/778.