The Mineral Hydrocarbons in Food Regulations 1966 No. 1073

SCHEDULE

PART I SPECIFICATIONS FOR LIQUID MINERAL HYDROCARBON, SEMI-LIQUID MINERAL HYDROCARBON AND SOLID MINERAL HYDROCARBON

Specification for liquid mineral hydrocarbon

1.  Liquid mineral hydrocarbon—

(a) shall be a transparent, almost colourless and tasteless mixture of liquid mineral hydrocarbons;

(b) shall have an ultra-violet extinction (otherwise called absorbance) over the range 240–280 millimicrons not greater than 0.04 for a 1 centimetre layer of a solution in iso-octane containing 1 gram per litre, that is to say,

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where E=log₁₀ (Io/I) and Io and I are the intensities of the incident radiation and of the transmitted radiation respectively; and

(c) shall comply with the tests for acidity or alkalinity, carbonisable substances, solid paraffins, and sulphur compounds given in the monograph for Liquid Paraffin in the British Pharmacopoeia 1963.