Amendment of the Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

3.  In paragraph (1) of regulation 2 (interpretation) –

(a) after the definition of “colour”, there shall be inserted –

• “Directive 88/388 EC means Council Directive 88/388/EEC(1) on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to flavourings for use in foodstuffs and to source materials for their production”.

(b) in the definition of “Directive 95/2/EC” for “and European Parliament and Council Directive 2001/5/EC” there shall be substituted –

• “, European Parliament and Council Directive 2001/5/EC(2) and European Parliament and Council Directive 2003/114/EC(3)”;

(c) after the definition of flavour enhancer, there shall be inserted –

• ““flavouring” bears the same meaning as in Article 1.2 of Directive 88/388/EEC(4);”;

(d) for the definition of “stabiliser”, there shall be substituted –

““stabiliser” means any substance which makes it possible to maintain the physico-chemical state of a foodstuff; including any substance which enables the maintenance of a homogenous dispersion of two or more immiscible substances in a foodstuff, substances which stabilise, retain or intensify an existing colour of a foodstuff and substances which increase the binding capacity of the food, including the formation of cross-links between proteins enabling the binding of food pieces into re-constituted food;”.

(1)

O.J. No. L84, 15.7.1988, p. 61

(2)

O.J. No. L55, 24.2.2001, p. 59

(3)

O.J. No. L24, 29.1.2004, p. 58

(4)

O.J. No. L184, 15.7.1988, p. 61