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CHAPTER IIU.K.COMMUNITY LISTS OF APPROVED FOOD ADDITIVES

Article 8U.K.Specific conditions for colours

A food additive may be included in the Community list in Annex II for the functional class of colour only if, in addition to serving one or more of the purposes set out in Article 6(2), it serves one of the following purposes:

(a)

restoring the original appearance of food of which the colour has been affected by processing, storage, packaging and distribution, whereby visual acceptability may have been impaired;

(b)

making food more visually appealing;

(c)

giving colour to food otherwise colourless.