The Bread and Flour Regulations 1995

Additional ingredients

5.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, no person shall use as an ingredient in the preparation of flour or bread any enzyme preparation, flour bleaching agent or flour treatment agent other than an enzyme preparation, flour bleaching agent or flour treatment agent specified in column 1 of Schedule 3.

(2) No person shall use as an ingredient in the preparation of flour or bread any enzyme preparation, flour bleaching agent or flour treatment agent specified in column 1 of Schedule 3 unless—

(a) the flour or bread is of a type specified in column 2 of that Schedule in relation to that enzyme preparation, flour bleaching agent or flour treatment agent; and

(b) the quantity of the enzyme preparation, flour bleaching agent or flour treatment agent used in the flour or bread does not exceed the maximum quantity, if any, specified in the appropriate entry in column 3 of that Schedule, or, if no maximum quantity is so specified, the quantity of the enzyme preparation, flour bleaching agent or flour treatment agent used in the flour or bread accords with good manufacturing practice.

(3) Notwithstanding regulation 18 of the labelling regulations, where a flour treatment agent has been used as an ingredient of any bread an indication of the presence of flour treatment agent shall appear—

(a) in the list of ingredients of the bread as prescribed by regulation 15 of the labelling regulations, where the bread is marked or labelled with a list of ingredients; or

(b) on a label, ticket or notice as prescribed by regulation 33 of the labelling regulations, where by virtue of regulation 24 of the labelling regulations the bread is not marked or labelled with a list of ingredients.