The Food Additives, Flavourings, Enzymes and Extraction Solvents (Wales) Regulations 2013

Article 4.1 (as read with Articles 11.3 and 11.4, 12, 13.2 and 18.1(a), 18.2 and 18.3)

Requirement that only food additives F28authorised in accordance with Regulation 1333/2008 be placed on the market as such and that they be used in accordance with any conditions specified in those Articles and F29in the authorisations concerned.

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

Requirement that only food additives F30authorised in accordance with Regulation 1333/2008 may be used in food additives, food enzymes, food flavourings and nutrients and under the conditions of use specified in F31the authorisations concerned.

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 F32authorisations in accordance with 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 F32authorisations in accordance with Regulation 1333/2008.

Article 17

Requirement to use only food colours F33authorised in accordance with 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 26.1

Requirement that producers and users of food additives inform the F34Authority immediately of any new scientific or technical information which might affect the assessment of the safety of the food additive concerned.

Article 21.1 (as read with Article 22)

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 F35English, or in English and Welsh.

Article 23.1 (as read with Article 23.2 and 23.5)

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 23.4

Requirement that manufacturers of table top sweeteners make available by appropriate means the information necessary to allow safe use by consumers.

Article 24.1 (as read with Article 24.2)

Requirement that labelling of the food containing the colours listed in Annex V should contain the additional information specified in that Annex.

Article 26.2

Requirement that producers and users of food additives, at the request of the F36Authority, inform it of the actual use of the food additive concerned.

Article 4

Requirement that the use of flavourings or food ingredients with flavouring properties does not pose a safety risk or mislead the consumer.

Article 5

Prohibition on the placing on the market of non-compliant flavourings or non-compliant food.

Article 6.1 (as read with Part A of Annex III)

Prohibition on adding certain specified substances as such in foods.

Article 6.2 (as read with Part B of Annex III)

Requirement that certain substances naturally present in flavourings or food ingredients with flavouring properties should not exceed specified levels in compound foods as a result of the use of flavourings or food ingredients with flavouring properties.

Article 7.1 (as read with Part A of Annex IV)

Prohibition on the use of certain source materials to produce flavourings or food ingredients with flavouring properties.

Article 7.2 (as read with Part B of Annex IV)

Restrictions on the use of flavourings or food ingredients with flavouring properties produced from certain source materials.

Article 10

Restriction on the placing on the market or use of flavourings and source materials that are not F37permitted to be placed on the market or used in or on foods in accordance with Regulation 1334/2008.

Article 19.2

Requirement that a producer or user of an approved flavouring that is prepared by production methods or using starting materials significantly different from those included in the risk assessment must submit the necessary data to the F38Authority to allow an evaluation with regard to the modified production method or characteristics before marketing the flavouring

Article 19.3

Requirement on food business operators to inform the F39Authority immediately if they become aware of any new scientific or technical information that might affect the assessment of the safety of a flavouring substance.

Article 14.1 (as read with Articles 15 and 16)

Requirements for the labelling of flavourings not intended for sale to the final consumer.

Article 17 (as read with Articles 15.1(a) and 16)

Requirements for the labelling of flavourings intended for sale to the final consumer.

Article 4.2

Prohibition on marketing a smoke flavouring F40that is not authorised in accordance with Regulation 2065/2003, or any food in or on which such a smoke flavouring is present

Article 4.2

Prohibition on marketing an authorised smoke flavouring, or any food in or on which such a smoke flavouring is present, otherwise than in accordance with any conditions of use laid down in the authorisation

Article 5.1, first subparagraph

Prohibition on using treated wood, unless it can be demonstrated by appropriate certification or documentation that the substance used in treatment does not give rise to potentially toxic substances during combustion

Article 5.1, second subparagraph

Requirement to be able to demonstrate by documentation or certification that the prohibition in the first paragraph of Article 5.1 has been observed

Article 5.2, first sentence

Requirement to observe conditions in Annex I during production of primary products (primary smoke condensates or primary tar fractions)

Article 5.2, second sentence

Prohibition on the use of water-insoluble oily phase during the production of smoke flavourings

Article 9.4

Requirement that an authorisation holder or any other food business operator using an authorised product, or a derived smoke flavouring produced from an authorised product, must comply with any conditions or restrictions attached to the authorisation

Article 9.5

Requirement that an authorisation holder inform the F41Authority immediately of any new scientific or technical information relating to an authorised product which might influence the assessment of its safety

Article 13.1

Requirement that food business operators ensure the specified information is transmitted to the receiving food business operator when the product is first placed on the market

Article 13.2

Requirement that following the first placing on the market, on each subsequent occasion that the product is placed on the market, food business operators placing products on the market transmit the information specified in Article 13.1 to the receiving food business operators

Article 4

Requirement that food enzymes may not be placed on the market as such or used in foods unless they F42are authorised in accordance with Regulation 1332/2008, and in accordance with any specifications and conditions of use set out in the authorisations concerned, subject to Article 24 of Regulation 1332/2008.

Article 5

Prohibition on placing on the market of non-compliant food enzymes or foods containing such enzymes which do not comply with Regulation 1332/2008 and its implementing measures.

Article 14.1

Requirement that a producer of user of a food enzyme shall inform the F43Authority immediately of any new scientific or technical information that might affect its safety assessment.

Article 14.2

Requirement that a producer or user of an approved food enzyme that is prepared by production methods or using starting materials significantly different from those included in the risk assessment must submit the necessary data to the F44Authority to allow an evaluation with regard to the modified production method or characteristics before marketing the enzyme.

Article 10.1 (as read with Article 11)

Requirements for labelling of food enzymes and preparations not intended for sale to the final consumer.

Article 12.1

Requirements for labelling of food enzymes and preparations intended for sale to the final consumer.

Propane

Butane

Ethyl Acetate

Ethanol

Carbon dioxide

Nitrous oxide

Production or fractionation of fats and oils and production of cocoa butter

1 mg/kg in the fat or oil or cocoa butter

Preparation of defatted protein products and defatted flours

10 mg/kg in the food containing the defatted protein products and the defatted flours

30 mg/kg in the defatted soya products as sold to the final consumer

Preparation of defatted cereal germs

5 mg/kg in the defatted cereal germs

Methyl acetate

Decaffeination of, or removal of irritants and bitterings from coffee and tea

20 mg/kg in the coffee or tea

Production of sugar from molasses

1 mg/kg in the sugar

Fractionation of fats and oils

5 mg/kg in the fat or oil

Decaffeination of, or removal of irritants and bitterings from coffee and tea

20 mg/kg in the coffee or tea

Dichloromethane

Decaffeination of, or removal of irritants and bitterings from coffee and tea

2 mg/kg in the roasted coffee and 5 mg/kg in the tea

Methanol

For all uses

10 mg/kg

Propan-2-ol

For all uses

10 mg/kg

Dimethyl ether

0.009 mg/kg in the defatted animal protein products including gelatine

3 mg/kg in the collagen and collagen derivatives, except gelatine

Diethyl ether

2 mg/kg

1 mg/kg

Cyclohexane

1 mg/kg

Methyl acetate

1 mg/kg

Butan-1-ol

1 mg/kg

Butan-2-ol

1 mg/kg

Ethylmethylketone(1)

1 mg/kg

Dichloromethane

0.02 mg/kg

Propan-1-ol

1 mg/kg

1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane

0.02 mg/kg

Methanol

1.5 mg/kg

Propan-2-ol

1 mg/kg

The Extraction Solvents in Food Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/1658)

The whole Regulations

The Extraction Solvents in Food (Amendment) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/1440)

The whole Regulations

The Extraction Solvents in Food (Amendment) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/2257)

The whole Regulations

The Extraction Solvents in Food (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1849 (W.199))

The whole Regulations

The Smoke Flavourings (Wales) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1350 (W.98))

The whole Regulations

The Food (Suspension of the Use of E128 Red 2G Food Colour) (Wales) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2315 (W.186))

The whole Regulations

The Food Enzymes Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3377 (W.299))

Regulations 3, 4, 5, 6, 7(2)(b) and 8

The Food Additives (Wales) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3378 (W.300))

All provisions except regulations 1, 2, 18(4) and 19

The Food Additives (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/655 (W.93))

The whole Regulations

The Food Additives (Wales) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1450 (W.172))

The whole Regulations

The Food Additives (Wales) (Amendment) and the Extraction Solvents in Food (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1198 (W.148))

The whole Regulations

The Flavourings in Food (Wales) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2922 (W.243))

All provisions except regulations 1, 2 and 7.