
2001 No. 60
FOOD, ENGLAND
The Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2001
 Made 11th January 2001
 Laid before Parliament 15th January 2001
 Coming into force 30th March 2001
 The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 16(1)(a), 17(1), 26(1) and (3) and 48(1) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to, the Food Safety Act 1990, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after having regard, in accordance with section 48(4) of that Act, to relevant advice given by the Food Standards Agency, and after consultation in accordance with section 48(4) and (4B) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:
 Title, commencement, extent and interpretation
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2001, shall come into force on 30th March 2001 and shall extend to England.
 Amendment of the principal Regulations
2 
The Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations 1995  shall be amended, in so far as they extend to England, in accordance with regulations 3 to 5 below.

3 
In regulation 2(1) (interpretation), in the definition of “Directive 96/77/EC” there shall be added at the end the words “
            and Commission Directive 2000/63/EC
          ”.

4 
In regulation 11 (transitional provision and exemptions) there shall be inserted after paragraph (1B) the following paragraph—“
(1C) In any proceedings for an offence under these Regulations in respect of any food additive or food, it shall be a defence to prove that—
(a) the food additive or food concerned was put on the market or labelled before 31st March 2001; and
(b) the matter constituting the offence would not have constituted an offence under these Regulations if the amendments made by regulations 3 and 5 of the Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2001 had not been made when that matter occurred.”.

5 
In Schedule 5 (purity criteria) the entries relating to the miscellaneous additives listed in the Schedule to these Regulations shall be omitted.
 Consequential amendments
6 

(1) In so far as any Instrument listed in regulation 14(1) of the Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) Regulations 1999  extends to England, that provision shall cease to have effect in relation to that instrument.
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 Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.
 Gisela Stuart
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Health
11th January 2001
SCHEDULE
 MISCELLANEOUS ADDITIVES FOR WHICH PURITY CRITERIA SPECIFIED OR REFERRED TO IN SCHEDULE 5 TO THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS ARE OMITTED
Regulation 5

E 296 Malic acid
E 297 Fumaric acid
E 350(i) Sodium malate
E 350(ii) Sodium hydrogen malate
E 351 Potassium malate
E 352(i) Calcium malate
E 352(ii) Calcium hydrogen malate
E 355 Adipic acid
E 363 Succinic acid
E 380 Triammonium citrate
E 500(i) Sodium carbonate
E 500(ii) Sodium hydrogen carbonate
E 500(iii) Sodium sesquicarbonate
E 501(i) Potassium carbonate
E 501(ii) Potassium hydrogen carbonate
E 503(i) Ammonium carbonate
E 503(ii) Ammonium hydrogen carbonate
E 507 Hydrochloric acid
E 509 Calcium chloride
E 513 Sulphuric acid
E 514(i) Sodium sulphate
E 515(i) Potassium sulphate
E 516 Calcium sulphate
E 522 Aluminium potassium sulphate
E 524 Sodium hydroxide
E 525 Potassium hydroxide
E 526 Calcium hydroxide
E 527 Ammonium hydroxide
E 528 Magnesium hydroxide
E 529 Calcium oxide
E 530 Magnesium oxide
E 535 Sodium ferrocyanide
E 536 Potassium ferrocyanide
E 541 Sodium aluminium phosphate, acidic
E 551 Silicon dioxide
E 552 Calcium silicate
E 553a(i) Magnesium silicate
E 553a(ii) Magnesium trisilicate
E 575 Glucono-delta-lactone
E 576 Sodium gluconate
E 577 Potassium gluconate
E 578 Calcium gluconate
E 640 Glycine
E 900 Dimethylpolysiloxane
E 901 Beeswax, white and yellow
E 903 Carnauba wax
E 904 Shellac
E 941 Nitrogen
E 942 Nitrous oxide
E 948 Oxygen
E 999 Extract of quillaia
E 1200 Polydextrose
 Propane-1, 2-diol (propylene glycol)