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

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Sweeteners in Food (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 and shall come into operation on 8th March 2002.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Sweeteners in Food Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996(1).

Amendment to the principal Regulations

2.  The principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with regulations 3 and 4.

3.  In regulation 2 (interpretation)—

(a) in paragraph (1)—

(i) in the definition of “Directive 95/31/EC” there shall be added at the end “, Directive 2000/51/EC(2) in so far as it relates to E965(ii) syrup maltitol and Directive 2001/52/EC(3)”;

(ii) for the definition of “permitted sweetener” there shall be substituted the following definition—

• ““permitted sweetener” means any sweetener specified in column 2 of Schedule 1 which satisfies the specific purity criteria for that sweetener set out—

  (a)

  in the case of any sweetener other than sucralose, in the Annex to Directive 95/31/EC; and

  (b)

  in the case of sucralose, at pages 119 to 124 of the Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Compendium of Food Additives Specifications Addendum 2 (1993) FAO Food and Nutrition Paper 52 Addendum 2;” and

(b) in paragraph (2)(b), for “40%” there shall be substituted “30%”.

4.  In Schedule 1 (permitted sweeteners and the foods in or on which they may be used) there shall be added at the end, in columns 2 to 4, the provisions specified in the Schedule.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 12th February 2002.

L.S.

Denis McMahon

A Senior Officer of the

Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety