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The Extraction Solvents in Food Regulations 1993

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2.—(1) In these Regulations, except where the context requires otherwise–

“the Act” means the Food Safety Act 1990;

“extraction procedure” means either–

(i)

the extraction from a food of any ingredient or other component part of that food, including any contaminant which is in or on that food, or

(ii)

the extraction of food from any other article or substance;

“extraction solvent” means any solvent which is used or intended to be used in an extraction procedure and includes in any particular case, further to its use in such a procedure, any substance other than such a solvent but deriving exclusively from such a solvent;

“permitted extraction solvent” means–

(i)

any extraction solvent described in Column 1 (as read, where applicable, with the corresponding entry in Column 2) of Part I of Schedule 1 which satisfies the general purity criteria in relation to extraction solvents specified in the first Note to that Part of that Schedule and, so far as is not otherwise provided in relation to particular extraction solvents, any mixture of two or more such extraction solvents, and

(ii)

any substance or material described in Column 1 of Part II of Schedule 1 when used (where applicable) in accordance with the conditions specified in Column 2 of that Part;

“residue” includes any residual substance other than an extraction solvent but deriving exclusively from an extraction solvent;

“solvent” means any substance which is capable of dissolving food, or any ingredient or other component part of food, including any contaminant which is in or on a food.

(2) Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation or Schedule shall, unless the reference is to a regulation of, or a Schedule to, specified Regulations, be construed as a reference to the regulation or Schedule bearing that number in these Regulations.

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