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					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/60/note/made</dc:identifier><dc:title>The Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2001</dc:title><dc:subject>Food additives</dc:subject><dc:subject>Food standards</dc:subject><dc:subject>Food labelling</dc:subject><dc:subject>Food safety</dc:subject><dc:publisher>King's Printer of Acts of Parliament</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2013-12-09</dc:modified><dc:subject scheme="SIheading">FOOD, ENGLAND</dc:subject>
					<dc:description>These Regulations, which apply to England only, amend the Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations 1995, as amended (“the principal Regulations”).</dc:description>
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<Text>(This note is not part of the Regulations)</Text>
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<Text>These Regulations, which apply to England only, amend the Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations 1995, as amended (“the principal Regulations”).</Text>
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<Text>The Regulations implement Commission Directive <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/european/directive/2000/0063" id="c00003" Class="EuropeanUnionDirective" Year="2000" Number="63">2000/63/<Acronym Expansion="European Community">EC</Acronym></Citation> amending Directive <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/european/directive/1996/0077" id="c00004" Class="EuropeanUnionDirective" Year="1996" Number="77">96/77/EC</Citation> laying down specific purity criteria on food additives other than colours and sweeteners (<Acronym Expansion="Official Journal">OJ</Acronym> <Abbreviation Expansion="Number">No.</Abbreviation> L277, 30.10.2000, p. 1).</Text>
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<Text>Subject to a transitional provision, the Regulations amend the existing requirements in the principal Regulations as regards the purity criteria for butylated hydroxyanisole (<Abbreviation Expansion="butylated hydroxyanisole">BHA</Abbreviation>) and specify new purity criteria in relation to the additives specified in Annex <Acronym Expansion="2">II</Acronym> to Commission Directive <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/european/directive/2000/0063" id="c00005" Class="EuropeanUnionDirective" Year="2000" Number="63">2000/63/EC</Citation> (regulations 3 to 5).</Text>
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<Text>The Regulations also make consequential amendments to the instruments specified in regulation 4, as regards references in those instruments to the principal Regulations (regulation 6).</Text>
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<Text>No regulatory impact assessment has been prepared in respect of these Regulations.</Text>
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