2009 No. 436
Food

F1The Food Additives (Scotland) Regulations 2009

Made
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
Coming into force
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 16(1)(a), (e) and (f), 17(1) and (2), 26(1)(a) and (b), (2)(e) and (3), and 48(1) of the Food Safety Act 19901, and paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to the European Communities Act 19722 and all other powers enabling them to do so.

These Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and it appears to the Scottish Ministers that it is expedient for any reference to an Annex to an EU instrument that is specified in regulation 2(5) to be construed as a reference to that Annex as amended from time to time.

In accordance with section 48(4A) of that Act, they have had regard to relevant advice given by the Food Standards Agency.

There has been consultation as required by Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety3.

Citation, commencement and extent1.

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Food Additives (Scotland) Regulations 2009 and come into force on 20th January 2010.

(2)

These Regulations extend to Scotland only.

Annotations:
Commencement Information

I1Reg. 1 in force at 20.1.2010, see reg. 1(1)

Interpretation2.

(1)

In these Regulations—

“acid” means any substance which increases the acidity of a food and/or imparts a sour taste to it;

“acidity regulator” means any substance which alters or controls the acidity or alkalinity of a food;

“the Act” means the Food Safety Act 1990;

“anti-caking agent” means any substance which reduces the tendency of individual particles of a food to adhere to each other;

“anti-foaming agent” means any substance which prevents or reduces foaming;

“antioxidant” means any substance which prolongs the shelf-life of a food by protecting it against deterioration caused by oxidation, including fat rancidity and colour changes;

“bulking agent” means any substance which contributes to the volume of a food without contributing significantly to its available energy value;

“carrier” and “carrier solvent” have the meanings respectively given to them in Directive 95/2;

“colour” has the meaning given to it in Directive 94/36;

“Directive 94/35” means European Parliament and Council Directive 94/35/EC on sweeteners for use in foodstuffs4;
“Directive 94/36” means European Parliament and Council Directive 94/36/EC on colours for use in foodstuffs5;
“Directive 95/2” means European Parliament and Council Directive 95/2/EC on food additives other than colours and sweeteners6;

“emulsifier” means any substance which makes it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases, such as oil and water, in a food;

“emulsifying salt” means any substance which converts proteins contained in cheese into a dispersed form, thereby bringing about homogenous distribution of fat and other components;

“firming agent” means any substance which makes or keeps tissues of fruit or vegetables firm or crisp or which interacts with a gelling agent to produce or strengthen a gel;

“flavour enhancer” means any substance which enhances the existing taste and/or odour of a food;

“flavouring” has the meaning that it bears in Article 1.2 of Council Directive 88/388/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to flavourings for use in foodstuffs and to source materials for their production7;

“flour treatment agent” means a substance added to flour or dough to improve its baking quality, but does not include any emulsifier;

“foaming agent” means any substance which makes it possible to form a homogenous dispersion of a gaseous phase in a liquid or solid food;

“food” means food sold, or intended for sale, for human consumption and, for the purposes of regulation 16 and in regulation 17, includes a colour, a sweetener and a food additive;

“food additive”—

(a)

subject to paragraphs (b) and (c), means any substance, whether or not it has nutritive value, that is not normally consumed as a food in itself or used as a characteristic ingredient of food, and which, if added intentionally for a technological purpose to food in its manufacture, processing, preparation, treatment, packaging, transport or storage, results, or may reasonably be expected to result, in the substance or its by-products becoming directly or indirectly a component the food concerned;

(b)

in the definition of “food” and for the purposes of regulations 8 to 10, 16 and 17, includes a carrier or carrier solvent; and

(c)

for the purposes of regulations 8 to 10, does not include—

  1. (i)
    any substance used for the treatment of drinking water as provided for in Council Directive 98/83/EC on the quality of water intended for human consumption8,
  2. (ii)

    any product containing pectin and derived from dried apple pomace or peel of citrus fruit, or from a mixture of both, by the action of dilute acid followed by partial neutralisation with sodium or potassium salts (liquid pectin),

  3. (iii)

    chewing gum bases,

  4. (iv)

    white or yellow dextrin, roasted or dextrinated starch, starch modified by acid or alkali treatment, bleached starch, physically modified starch and starch treated by amylolitic enzymes,

  5. (v)

    ammonium chloride,

  6. (vi)

    blood plasma, edible gelatine, protein hydrolysates and their salts, milk protein and gluten,

  7. (vii)

    amino acids and their salts (other than glumatic acid, glycine, cysteine and cystine and their salts) having no additive function,

  8. (viii)

    caseinates and casein, and

  9. (ix)

    inulin;

“food for infants or young children” means food covered by Article 1.1, 2 and 3(c) of Directive 2009/39/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on foodstuffs for particular nutritional uses (recast)9, but also includes any food for infants or young children who are not in good health;

“gelling agent” means any substance which gives a food texture through the formation of a gel;

“glazing agent” means any substance which, when applied to the external surface of a food, imparts a shiny appearance or provides a protective coating, and includes lubricants;

“humectant” means any substance which prevents a food from drying out by counteracting the effect of an atmosphere having a low degree of humidity, or which promotes the dissolution of a powder in an aqueous medium;

“infants” means children under the age of one year;

“miscellaneous additive” means any food additive which is used or intended to be used primarily as an acid, acidity regulator, anti-caking agent, anti-foaming agent, antioxidant, bulking agent, carrier, carrier solvent, emulsifier, emulsifying salt, firming agent, flavour enhancer, flour treatment agent, foaming agent, gelling agent, glazing agent, humectant, modified starch, packaging gas, preservative, propellant, raising agent, sequestrant, stabiliser or thickener, but does not include any processing aid or any enzyme except invertase or lysozyme;

“modified starch” means any substance obtained by one or more chemical treatments of edible starch, which may have undergone a physical or enzymatic treatment, and may be acid or alkali thinned or bleached;

“packaging gas” means any gas, other than air, which is introduced into a container before, during or after the placing of a food in that container;

F2“permitted colour” means—

(a)

before 1st December 2012, any colour listed in Annex I to Directive 94/36 which satisfies the specific purity criteria for that colour set out in Annex I to Commission Directive 2008/128/EC laying down specific purity criteria concerning colours for use in foodstuffs, as amended by Commission Directive 2011/3/EU amending Directive 2008/128/EC laying down specific purity criteria on colours for use in foodstuffs;

(b)

on or after 1st December 2012, any colour listed in Annex I to Directive 94/36 which satisfies the specific purity criteria for that colour set out in the Annex to Regulation 231/2012;

“permitted miscellaneous additive” means any miscellaneous additive listed in Annex I, III, IV or V of Directive 95/2 which satisfies the purity criteria (if any) for that additive;

F3“permitted sweetener” means—

(a)

before 1st December 2012—

  1. (i)

    any sweetener specified in the second column of the Annex to Directive 94/35 which satisfies the specific purity criteria for that sweetener set out in Annex I to Commission Directive 2008/60/EC laying down specific purity criteria concerning sweeteners for use in foodstuffs, as amended by Commission Directive 2010/37/EU amending Directive 2008/60/EC laying down specific purity criteria on sweeteners; or

  2. (ii)

    in the case of E960 steviol glycosides, a sweetener which satisfies the specific purity criteria for that sweetener set out in the Annex to Regulation 231/2012;

(b)

on or after 1st December 2012—

  1. (i)

    any sweetener specified in the second column of the Annex to Directive 94/35; or

  2. (ii)

    in the case of E960 steviol glycosides, a sweetener,

which satisfies the specific purity criteria for that sweetener set out in the Annex to Regulation 231/2012;

“placing on the market” has the meaning given to it in Article 3.8 of Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety;

“preservative” means any substance which prolongs the shelf-life of a food by protecting it against deterioration caused by micro-organisms;

“processing aid” means any substance not consumed as a food by itself, which is intentionally used in the processing of raw materials, foods or their ingredients to fulfil a certain technological purpose during treatment or processing and which may result in the unintentional but technically unavoidable presence of residues of the substance or its derivatives in the final product, but only if those residues do not present any health risk and do not have any technological effect on the finished product;

“propellant” means any gas, other than air, which expels a food from a container;

F4“purity criteria”, in relation to a miscellaneous additive, means—

(a)

before 1st December 2012—

  1. (i)

    the specific purity criteria set out in relation to that additive in Annex I to Commission Directive 2008/84/EC laying down specific purity criteria on food additives other than colours and sweeteners, as amended by Commission Directive 2010/67/EU amending Directive 2008/84/EC laying down specific purity criteria on food additives other than colours and sweeteners; or

  2. (ii)

    in the case of E1205 basic methacrylate copolymer, the specific purity criteria set out in the Annex to Regulation 231/2012;

(b)

on or after 1st December 2012, the specific purity criteria set out in relation to that additive in the Annex to Regulation 231/2012;

“raising agent” means any substance or combination of substances which liberates gas and thereby increases the volume of a dough or a batter;

“Regulation 1333/2008” means Regulation (EC) No. 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on food additives13 F5as read with Regulation 231/2012;

F6“Regulation 1129/2011” means Commission Regulation (EU) No 1129/2011 amending Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council by establishing a Union list of food additives , as read with Commission Regulation (EU) No 1131/2011 amending Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to steviol glycosides;

F6“Regulation 1130/2011” means Commission Regulation (EU) No 1130/2011 amending Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on food additives by establishing a Union list of food additives approved for use in food additives, food enzymes, food flavourings and nutrients ;

F6“Regulation 231/2012” means Commission Regulation (EU) No 231/2012 laying down specifications for food additives listed in Annexes II and III to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council;

“relevant food additive” means any miscellaneous additive, colour or sweetener, or an enzyme which is not acting as a processing aid;

“sell” includes possess for sale, and offer, expose or advertise for sale, and “sale” and “sold” shall be construed accordingly;

“sequestrant” means any substance which forms a chemical complex with metallic ions;

“specified permitted colour” means any permitted colour other than—

(a)

E123 Amaranth;

(b)

E127 Erythrosine;

(c)

E128 Red 2G;

(d)

E154 Brown FK;

(e)

E160b Annatto, bixin, norbixin;

(f)

E161g Canthaxanthin;

(g)

E173 Aluminium; and

(h)

E180 Litholrubine BK;

“specified Regulation 1333/2008 provision” means any provision of Regulation 1333/2008 that is specified in the first column of the Schedule and whose subject-matter is described in the second column of the Schedule;

“stabiliser” has the meaning given to it in Directive 95/2;

“sweetener” means any food additive which is used or intended to be used—

(a)

to impart a sweet taste to food; or

(b)

as a table-top sweetener;

“thickener” means any substance which increases the viscosity of a food; and

“young children” means children aged between one and three years.

(2)

Other expressions used in these Regulations and in Directive 94/35, 94/36 or 95/2 have, in so far as the context admits, the same meaning as they bear in the Directive concerned.

(3)

Any reference in these Regulations to—

(a)

a maximum level of permitted colour in or on a food is a reference to the maximum amount, in milligrams, of colouring principle contained in that permitted colour per kilogram or, as the case may be, per litre, of food which is ready to eat and which has been prepared according to any instructions for use;

(b)

a maximum level of permitted miscellaneous additive in or on a food, or in respect of a food additive, is a reference to the maximum level of that permitted miscellaneous additive in or on the food, or in respect of the food additive, as sold, unless otherwise indicated; or

(c)

quantum satis, means, in relation to the use of permitted colours or permitted miscellaneous additives in or on food, that no maximum level of permitted colour or permitted miscellaneous additive has been laid down for use in or on certain food but that a permitted colour or, permitted miscellaneous additive may be used in or on the food in accordance with good manufacturing practice at a level not higher than is necessary to achieve the intended purpose and only if such use does not mislead the consumer.

(4)

Any reference in these Regulations to an Annex to an EU instrument that is specified in paragraph (5) is a reference to that Annex as amended from time to time.

F7(5)

The EU instruments are Directive 94/35, Directive 95/2, Regulation 1333/2008 and Regulation 231/2012.

Use of colours in or on foodF13.

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Health marking etc. of certain meat and meat productsF14.

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Use of colours on eggshellsF15.

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Sale of colours and food containing coloursF16.

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Transitional provisionF17.

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Use of miscellaneous additivesF18.

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Sale of food additives and food containing miscellaneous additivesF19.

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Transitional provisions and exemptionF110.

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Placing on the market and use of sweetenersF111.

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Sale of food containing sweetenersF112.

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Transitional provisionF113.

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Offences and penaltiesF114.

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EnforcementF115.

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Application of various sections of the Food Safety Act 1990F116.

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Condemnation of foodF117.

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Consequential amendments18.

F8(1)

In paragraph (1) of regulation 4 (exemptions from the prohibition of mineral hydrocarbon in food) of the Mineral Hydrocarbons in Food (Scotland) Regulations 1966, for sub-paragraph (d) substitute—

“(d)

any food containing mineral hydrocarbon that is used in the food as a miscellaneous additive as defined in the Food Additives (Scotland) Regulations 2009 in compliance with the provisions of those   Regulations;”.

(2)

In the Fruit Juices and Fruit Nectars (Scotland) Regulations 200328, for paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 (additional ingredients permitted in particular designated products) there is substituted the following paragraph:—

“2.

In any designated product, any substance permitted pursuant to Regulation (EC) No. 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on food additives may be added.”.

(3)

In the Condensed Milk and Dried Milk (Scotland) Regulations 200329 for note 2 to Schedule 1 (partly or wholly dehydrated preserved milk products and their reserved descriptions) there is substituted the following note:—

“(a)

Any designated product may contain—

(i)

any substance permitted pursuant to Regulation (EC) No. 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on food additives, and

(ii)

vitamins and minerals in accordance with the requirements or Regulation (EC) No. 1925/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the addition of vitamins and minerals and of certain other substances to  foods30.”.

F9(4)

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(5)

In the Jam and Similar Products (Scotland) Regulations 200433—

(a)

in paragraph (1) of regulation 2 (interpretation) for the definition of “permitted sweetener” there is substituted the following definition:—

““permitted sweetener” means any sweetener in so far as its use is permitted in specified jam or similar product by the Food Additives (Scotland) Regulations 2009;”; and

(b)

in Schedule 2 (permitted additional ingredients and authorised treatments for products described in items 1 to 7 of Schedule 1), for sub-paragraph (m) of paragraph (1) there is substituted the following sub-paragraph:—

“(m)

any substance permitted pursuant to Regulation (EC) No. 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on food additives.”.

Amendment of the Specified Sugar Products (Scotland) Regulations 200319.

In the Specified Sugar Products (Scotland) Regulations 200334, for note 7 to Schedule 1 (specified sugar products and their reserved descriptions) there is substituted the following note:—

“7.

Specified sugar products may contain any substance permitted pursuant to Directive 2009/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the approximation of the laws of the Member States on extraction solvents used in the production of foodstuffs and food ingredients (Recast)35 or Regulation (EC) No. 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on food additives.”.
Annotations:
Commencement Information

I4Reg. 19 in force at 20.1.2010, see reg. 1(1)

RevocationsF120.

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SHONA ROBISON
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

SCHEDULESPECIFIED REGULATION 1333/2008 PROVISIONS

Regulation 2(1)

Annotations:
Commencement Information

I5Sch. in force at 20.1.2010, see reg. 1(1)

Provision of Regulation 1333/2008

Subject – matter

Article 4.1 (as read with Articles 11.3 and 4, 12, 13.2, 15, 16 and 18.1(a), 2 and 3)

Requirement that only food additives included in the list in Annex II to Regulation 1333/2008 be placed on the market as such and that they be used in accordance with any conditions specified in that Annex.

F10Article 4.2 (as read with Articles 12, 13.2 and 18.3)

Requirement that only food additives included in the list in Annex III to Regulation 1333/2008 may be used in food additives, food enzymes, food flavourings and nutrients and under the conditions of use specified in that Annex.

Article 4.5

Requirement that food additives comply with the specifications referred to in Article 14 of Regulation 1333/2008.

Article 5

Prohibition on placing on the market of food additives or food containing food additives if the use of the food additive does not comply with Regulation 1333/2008.

Article 11.2

Requirement to use food additives in accordance with the quantum satis principle where no maximum numerical level fixed for the additive concerned.

Article 15

Prohibition on use of food additives in unprocessed foods except where provided for in Annex II to Regulation 1333/2008.

Article 16

Prohibition on use of food additives in foods for infants and young children (including dietary foods for infants and young children for special medical purposes) except where provided for in Annex II to Regulation 1333/2008.

Article 17

Requirement to use only food colours listed in Annex II to Regulation 1333/2008 for the purpose of health marking meat or meat products, decorative colouring of eggshells or stamping of eggshells.

Article 18.1(b) (as read with Article 18.2)

Requirement that food additives be present in food to which a food additive, food enzyme or food flavouring has been added, only if the additive is permitted in the additive, enzyme or flavouring under Regulation 1333/2008, has been carried over to the food via the additive, enzyme or flavouring and has no technological function in the final food.

Article 18.1(c) (as read with Article 18.2)

Requirement that food additives be present in foods to be used solely in the preparation of a compound food only if the compound food complies with Regulation 1333/2008.

Article 18.4

Requirement that food additives be used as sweeteners in compound foods with no added sugars, energy reduced compound foods with no added sugars, energy reduced compound foods, compound dietary foods intended for low calorie diets, non cariogenic compound foods and compound foods with an increased shelf life only if the sweetener is permitted in any of the ingredients of the compound food.

Article 21.1

Requirement that food additives not intended for sale to the final consumer be labelled, in accordance with Article 22 of Regulation 1333/2008, visibly, clearly legibly and indelibly and in a language easily understandable to purchasers.

Article 22.1 (as read with Article 22.4 and 5 and the second paragraph of Article 31)

Requirement that food additives not intended for sale to the final consumer be sold only if their packaging or containers bear specified information.

Article 22.2 (as read with Article 22.4 and 5 and the second paragraph of Article 31)

Requirement that food additives mixed with each other and/or with other food ingredients be sold only if their packaging or containers bear a list of ingredients in descending order of their percentage by weight of the total.

Article 22.3 (as read with Article 22.4 and 5 and the second paragraph of Article 31)

Requirement that, where substances (including food additives or other food ingredients) are added to food additives to facilitate their storage, sale, standardisation or dissolution, their packaging or containers bear a list of all such substances in descending order of their percentage by weight of the total.

Article 23.1 (as read with Article 23.2 and 5)

Prohibition on marketing of food additives sold singly or mixed with each other and/or other food ingredients and intended for sale to the final consumer unless their packaging contains specified information.

Article 23.3 (as read with Article 23.5)

Requirement that the labelling of table-top sweeteners containing polyols and/or aspartame and/or aspartame – acesulfame salt bear specified warnings.

Article 26.1

Requirement that producers and users of food additives inform the Commission immediately of any new scientific or technical information which might affect the assessment of the safety of the food additive concerned.

Article 26.2

Requirement that producers and users of food additives, at the request of the Commission, inform it of the actual use of the food additive concerned.

EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations apply in relation to Scotland only. They revoke the Food Additives Labelling Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/1978), the Sweeteners in Food Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/3123), the Colours in Food Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/3124) and the Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/3187) (each of which extends to the whole of Great Britain) and re-enact with changes and on a transitional basis certain provisions of the last three of those instruments.

These Regulations provide for the execution and enforcement of Regulation (EC) No. 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on food additives (O.J. No. L354, 31.12.2008, p.16) (“the Regulation”) and give effect to Commission Directive 2009/10/EC amending Directive 2008/84/EC laying down specific purity criteria on food additives other than colours and sweeteners (O.J. No. L44, 14.2.2009, p.62).

These Regulations prohibit—

(a)

the use in or on any food of any colour other than a permitted colour and the use of any permitted colour unless specified requirements are satisfied (the terms “colour” and “permitted colour” are defined in regulation 2(1)) (regulation 3);

(b)

the use for health marking and other marking of certain meat and meat products of colours other than certain permitted colours (regulation 4);

(c)

the use of a colour for the decorative colouring of eggshells or the marking of eggshells as provided for in a specified EU instrument other than a permitted colour (regulation 5);

(d)

the sale—

(i)

of any colour for use in or on any food unless the colour is a permitted colour,

(ii)

direct to consumers of any colour other than a specified permitted colour (the term “specified permitted colour” is defined in regulation 2(1)), or

(iii)

of any food having in or on it any colour other than a permitted colour that has been used in or on the food without contravening specified provisions of these Regulations (regulation 6);

(e)

the use in or on any food of any miscellaneous additive other than a permitted miscellaneous additive (the terms “miscellaneous additive” and “permitted miscellaneous additive” are defined in regulation 2(1)) (regulation 8(1));

(f)

subject to a specified EU provision, the use of a permitted miscellaneous additive listed elsewhere in the EU instrument in which that provision appears in or on a food listed in a specified part of that instrument (regulation 8(2));

(g)

subject to a specified EU provision in the case of the prohibition imposed by regulation 8(3), the use of certain permitted miscellaneous additives in or on specified foods unless specified requirements are satisfied (regulation 8(3), (4) and (5));

(h)

the use of any miscellaneous additive primarily as a carrier or carrier solvent unless the additive is a permitted miscellaneous additive listed in a specified EU provision and its use complies with the restrictions, if any, mentioned in relation to the additive in that provision (the terms “carrier” and “carrier solvent” are defined in regulation 2(1)) (regulation 8(6));

(i)

subject to a specified EU provision, the use of any permitted miscellaneous additive in or on food for infants or young children unless it is listed in a specified EU provision and it is used only in accordance with the conditions contained in that provision (the term “food for infants or young children” is defined in regulation 2(1)) (regulation 8(7));

(j)

the use in or on any food for infants or young children of any relevant food additive in combination with a miscellaneous additive used primarily as a carrier or carrier solvent unless the miscellaneous food additive is listed in a specified EU provision and its presence in or on the food is in accordance with the conditions contained in that provision (the term “relevant food additive” is defined in regulation 2(1)) (regulation 8(8));

(k)

the sale of any miscellaneous additive for use in or on food other than a permitted miscellaneous additive (regulation 9(1));

(l)

the sale of any miscellaneous additive for use primarily as a carrier or carrier solvent unless the additive is a certain type of permitted miscellaneous additive (regulation 9(2));

(m)

the sale direct to consumers of any miscellaneous additive other than a permitted miscellaneous additive (regulation 9(3));

(n)

the sale of any food having in or on it any miscellaneous additive other than a permitted miscellaneous additive which has been used or is present in or on the food without contravening specified provisions of these Regulations (regulation 9(4));

(o)

the sale of any relevant food additive in combination with a miscellaneous additive used primarily as a carrier or carrier solvent unless the miscellaneous additive has been used in respect of the relevant food additive without contravening the requirements of regulation 8(6) (regulation 9(5));

(p)

the placing on the market of any sweetener intended for sale to the ultimate consumer or for use in or on any food other than a permitted sweetener (the terms “sweetener” and “permitted sweetener” are defined in regulation 2(1)) (regulation 11(1));

(q)

the use of any sweetener in or on any food other than a permitted sweetener which—

(i)

is used in or on a food listed in a specified EU provision in an amount not exceeding the maximum usable dose for the sweetener that is listed in relation to that food in that provision, and

(ii)

is listed in relation to that food in that provision (regulation 11(2));

(r)

the sale of any food having in or on it any sweetener other than a permitted sweetener which has been used in or on the food without contravening regulation 11(2) (regulation 12).

These Regulations also—

(a)

re-enact with changes on a transitional basis (as noted above) certain provisions included in the Sweeteners in Food Regulations 1995, the Colours in Food Regulations 1995 and the Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations 1995 (regulations 7, 10 and 13);

(b)

provide that a person who contravenes or fails to comply with specified provisions of these Regulations or (subject to a transitional provision contained in Article 34 of the Regulation) the Regulation, is guilty of a summary offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale (regulation 14);

(c)

make provision for the execution and enforcement of these Regulations and the Regulation (regulation 15);

(d)

apply with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations certain provisions of the Food Safety Act 1990 (regulation 16);

(e)

provide that, where food is certified as being food which it is an offence under these Regulations to use, sell or place on the market, the food will be treated for the purposes of section 9 of the Food Safety Act 1990 as failing to comply with food safety requirements (regulation 17);

(f)

make consequential amendments to the Mineral Hydrocarbons in Food Regulations 1966 (S.I. 1966/1073), the Fruit Juices and Fruit Nectars (Scotland) Regulations 2003 (S.S.I. 2003/293), the Condensed Milk and Dried Milk (Scotland) Regulations 2003 (S.S.I. 2003/311), the Meat Products (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/6) and the Jam and Similar Products (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/133) (regulation 18); and

(g)

make a minor amendment to the Specified Sugar Products (Scotland) Regulations 2003 (S.S.I. 2003/527) (regulation 19).

A full impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business and the voluntary sector has been prepared and placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre. Copies may be obtained from the Food Standards Agency (Scotland), 6th Floor, St Magnus House, 25 Guild Street, Aberdeen AB11 6NJ