The Food Additives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

Regulation 2(1)

SCHEDULE 1N.I.SPECIFIED REGULATION 1333/2008 PROVISIONS

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 1 in operation at 20.1.2010, see reg. 1

Provision of Regulation 1333/2008Subject – matter
Article 4.1 (as read with Articles 11.3 and 4, 12, 13.2, 15, 16 and 18.1(a), 2 and 3)

Requirement that only food additives included in the list in Annex II to Regulation 1333/2008 be placed on the market as such and that they be used in accordance with any conditions specified in that Annex.

Article 4.5

Requirement that food additives comply with the specifications referred to in Article 14 of Regulation 1333/2008.

Article 5

Prohibition on placing on the market of food additives or food containing food additives if the use of the food additive does not comply with Regulation 1333/2008.

Article 11.2

Requirement to use food additives in accordance with the quantum satis principle where no maximum numerical level fixed for the additive concerned.

Article 15

Prohibition on use of food additives in unprocessed foods except where provided for in Annex II to Regulation 1333/2008.

Article 16

Prohibition on use of food additives in foods for infants and young children (including dietary foods for infants and young children for special medical purposes) except where provided for in Annex II to Regulation 1333/2008.

Article 17

Requirement to use only food colours listed in Annex II to Regulation 1333/2008 for the purpose of health marking meat or meat products, decorative colouring of eggshells or stamping of eggshells.

Article 18.1(b) (as read with Article 18.2)

Requirement that food additives be present in food to which a food additive, food enzyme or food flavouring has been added, only if the additive is permitted in the additive, enzyme or flavouring under Regulation 1333/2008, has been carried over to the food via the additive, enzyme or flavouring and has no technological function in the final food.

Article 18.1(c) (as read with Article 18.2)

Requirement that food additives be present in foods to be used solely in the preparation of a compound food only if the compound food complies with Regulation 1333/2008.

Article 18.4

Requirement that food additives be used as sweeteners in compound foods with no added sugars, energy reduced compound foods with no added sugars, energy reduced compound foods, compound dietary foods intended for low calorie diets, non cariogenic compound foods and compound foods with an increased shelf life only if the sweetener is permitted in any of the ingredients of the compound food.

Article 21.1

Requirement that food additives not intended for sale to the final consumer be labelled, in accordance with Article 22 of Regulation 1333/2008, visibly, clearly legibly and indelibly and in a language easily understandable to purchasers.

Article 22.1 (as read with Article 22.4 and 5 and the second paragraph of Article 31)

Requirement that food additives not intended for sale to the final consumer be sold only if their packaging or containers bear specified information.

Article 22.2 (as read with Article 22.4 and 5 and the second paragraph of Article 31)

Requirement that food additives mixed with each other and/or with other food ingredients be sold only if their packaging or containers bear a list of ingredients in descending order of their percentage by weight of the total.

Article 22.3 (as read with Article 22.4 and 5 and the second paragraph of Article 31)

Requirement that, where substances (including food additives or other food ingredients) are added to food additives to facilitate their storage, sale, standardisation or dissolution, their packaging or containers bear a list of all such substances in descending order of their percentage by weight of the total.

Article 23.1 (as read with Article 23.2 and 5)

Prohibition on marketing of food additives sold singly or mixed with each other and/or other food ingredients and intended for sale to the final consumer unless their packaging contains specified information.

Article 23.3 (as read with Article 23.5)

Requirement that the labelling of table-top sweeteners containing polyols and/or aspartame and/or aspartame – acesulfame salt bear specified warnings.

Article 26.1

Requirement that producers and users of food additives inform the Commission immediately of any new scientific or technical information which might affect the assessment of the safety of the food additive concerned.

Article 26.2

Requirement that producers and users of food additives, at the request of the Commission, inform it of the actual use of the food additive concerned.

Regulation 20

SCHEDULE 2N.I.REGULATIONS REVOKED

Commencement Information

I2Sch. 2 in operation at 20.1.2010, see reg. 1

TitleYear and Number

The Food Additives Labelling Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992

S.R. 1992 No. 417

The Sweeteners in Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

S.R. 1996 No. 48

The Colours in Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

S.R. 1996 No. 49

The Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

S.R. 1996 No. 50

The Sweeteners in Food (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

S.R. 1997 No. 257

The Colours in Food (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

S.R. 2000 No. 188

The Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

S.R. 2001 No. 46

The Colours in Food (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

S.R. 2001 No. 408

The Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

S.R. 2001 No. 419

The Sweeteners in Food (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

S.R. 2002 No. 39

The Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

S.R. 2003 No. 158

The Sweeteners in Food (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

S.R. 2003 No. 257

The Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

S.R. 2003 No. 535

The Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

S.R. 2004 No. 439

The Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

S.R. 2005 No. 19

The Colours in Food (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

S.R. 2005 No. 75

The Colours in Food (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

S.R. 2007 No. 123

The Miscellaneous Food Additives and the Sweeteners in Food (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

S.R. 2007 No. 325

The Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

S.R. 2008 No. 41

The Purity Criteria for Colours, Sweeteners and Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

S.R. 2009 No. 167