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2001 No. 46

FOOD

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

  Made 7th February 2001 
  Coming into operation 30th March 2001 

The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety[1] in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 15(1)(a), 16(1), 25(1) and (3), 26(3) and 47(2) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to, the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991[2] and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, having had regard in accordance with Article 47(3A) of the said Order to relevant advice given by the Food Standards Agency and after consultation in accordance with Article 47(3) and (3B) of the said Order, hereby makes the following Regulations: - 

Citation, commencement and interpretation  - 
     1.     

    (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 and shall come into operation on 30th March 2001.

    (2) In these Regulations "the principal Regulations" means the Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996[3].

Amendment of the principal Regulations
     2. The principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 5.

     3. In regulation 2(1) (interpretation), in the definition of "Directive 96/77/EC" there shall be inserted at the end "and Commission Directive 2000/63/EC"[4].

     4. In regulation 11 (transitional provisions and exemptions) there shall be inserted after paragraph (1B) the following paragraph - 

     5. In Schedule 5 (purity criteria) the entries relating to the miscellaneous additives listed in the Schedule to these Regulations shall be omitted.

Consequential amendments
     6. In the following Regulations, references to the principal Regulations shall be construed as references to those Regulations as amended by the Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997, the Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 and these Regulations: - 



Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on


7th February 2001.

L.S.


John McGrath
Senior Officer of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety


SCHEDULE
Regulation 5


Miscellaneous additives for which specific purity criteria specified or referred to in Schedule 5 to the principal Regulations are omitted


E 296 Malic acid
E 297 Fumaric acid
E 350(i) Sodium malate
E 350(ii) Sodium hydrogen malate
E 351 Potassium malate
E 352(i) Calcium malate
E 352(ii) Calcium hydrogen malate
E 355 Adipic acid
E 363 Succinic acid
E 380 Triammonium citrate
E 500(i) Sodium carbonate
E 500(ii) Sodium hydrogen carbonate
E 500(iii) Sodium sesquicarbonate
E 501(i) Potassium carbonate
E 501(ii) Potassium hydrogen carbonate
E 503(i) Ammonium carbonate
E 503(ii) Ammonium hydrogen carbonate
E 507 Hydrochloric acid
E 509 Calcium chloride
E 513 Sulphuric acid
E 514(i) Sodium sulphate
E 515(i) Potassium sulphate
E 516 Calcium sulphate
E 522 Aluminium potassium sulphate
E 524 Sodium hydroxide
E 525 Potassium hydroxide
E 526 Calcium hydroxide
E 527 Ammonium hydroxide
E 528 Magnesium hydroxide
E 529 Calcium oxide
E 530 Magnesium oxide
E 535 Sodium ferrocyanide
E 536 Potassium ferrocyanide
E 541 Sodium aluminium phosphate, acidic
E 551 Silicon dioxide
E 552 Calcium silicate
E 553a(i) Magnesium silicate
E 553a(ii) Magnesium trisilicate
E 575 Glucono-delta-lactone
E 576 Sodium gluconate
E 577 Potassium gluconate
E 578 Calcium gluconate
E 640 Glycine
E 900 Dimethylpolysiloxane
E 901 Beeswax, white and yellow
E 903 Carnauba wax
E 904 Shellac
E 941 Nitrogen
E 942 Nitrous oxide
E 948 Oxygen
E 999 Extract of quillaia
E 1200 Polydextrose
  Propane-1,2-diol (propylene glycol)


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)


These Regulations amend the Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996, as amended ("the principal Regulations").

The Regulations implement Commission Directive 2000/63/EC amending Directive 96/77/EC laying down specific purity criteria on food additives other than colours and sweeteners (O.J. No. L277, 30.10.2000, p. 1).

Subject to a transitional provision, the Regulations amend the existing requirements in the principal Regulations as regards the purity criteria for butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and specify new purity criteria in relation to the additives specified in Annex II to Commission Directive 2000/63/EC (regulations 3 to 5).

The Regulations also make consequential amendments to the Regulations specified in regulation 6, as regards references in those Regulations to the principal Regulations (regulation 6).

Notes:

 [1] Formerly the Department of Health and Social Services; see S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1), Article 3back

[2] S.I. 1991/762 (N.I. 7) as amended by S.I. 1996/1633 (N.I. 12) and paragraphs 26 to 42 of Schedule 5 and Schedule 6 to the Food Standards Act 1999 c. 28back

[3] S.R. 1996 No. 50 as amended by S.R. 1997 No. 340 and S.R. 1999 No. 244back

[4] O.J. No. L277, 30.10.2000, p. 1back

[5] S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1966 No. 200; the relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1996 No. 50back

[6] S.R. 1976 No. 165; the relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1996 No. 50back

[7] S.R. 1976 No. 183; the relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1996 No. 50back

[8] S.R. 1977 No. 182; the relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1996 No. 50back

[9] S.R. 1977 No. 196; the relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1996 No. 50back

[10] S.R. 1982 No. 105; the relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1996 No. 50back

[11] S.R. 1984 No. 408; the relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1996 No. 50back

[12] S.R. 1992 No. 417; the relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1996 No. 50back

[13] S.R. 1996 No. 383; the relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1998 No. 253 and S.R. 1999 No. 143back


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Prepared 16 February 2001

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