The Food Additives Labelling Regulations 1992

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

“the Act” means the Food Safety Act 1990;

“container”, in relation to food additives, has the same meaning as in the Act, except that it also includes a vehicle in which those food additives, not being in any other container, are placed;

“food” has the same meaning as in the Act, except that it is limited to food intended for sale for human consumption;

“food additive” means such food as comprises material (with or without nutritive value)—

(a)

which is within a category (or more than one category) listed in Part I, as supplemented by Part II, of Schedule 1 below,

(b)

which is neither normally consumed as a food in itself nor normally used as a characteristic ingredient of food,

(c)

which is not within a category (or more than one category) listed in Schedule 2 below, and

(d)

the intentional addition of which to other food for a technological purpose in the manufacture, processing, preparation, treatment, packaging, transport or storage of that other food results, or may be reasonably expected to result, in that material or its by-products becoming directly or indirectly a component of that other food;

“sell” includes offer or expose for sale or have in possession for sale, “sale” shall be construed accordingly and, in relation to food additives—

(a)

“consumer sale” means a sale of them—

(i)

to the ultimate consumer, or

(ii)

in a container in which they are ready for delivery to the ultimate consumer, and

(b)

“business sale” means a sale of them other than a consumer sale;

“supplementary material” means, in relation to a food additive, material (whether or not it comes within a category, or more than one category, listed in Schedule 2 below) the presence of which in or on the food additive may reasonably be expected to facilitate storage, sale, standardisation, dilution or dissolution of the food additive; and

“ultimate consumer” has the meaning which it has in the Food Labelling Regulations 1984(1).

(1)

S.I. 1984/1305; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1990/2486, 1992/1971.