Antioxidant in Food Regulations 1966
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1966/1500 |
| Year | 1966 |
1966 No. 1500
FOOD AND DRUGS
COMPOSITION AND LABELLING
The Antioxidant in Food Regulations 196630thNovember 1966
8thDecember 1966
9thDecember 1966
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Minister of Health, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 4, 7 and 123 of the Food and Drugs Act 1955(a) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following regulations after consultation with such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests substantially affected by the regulations and reference to the Food Hygiene Advisory Council under section 82 of the said Act (insofar as the regulations relate to the labelling, marking or description of food):—
Citation and commencement
1. These regulations may be cited as the Antioxidant in Food Regulations 1966; and shall come into operation on 9th December 1966.
Interpretation
2.—(1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
"the Act" means the Food and Drugs Act 1955;
"antioxidant" means any substance which delays, retards or prevents the development in food of rancidity or other flavour deterioration due to oxidation but does not include lecithin, ascorbic acid, or its salts or esters, tocopherols, citric acid, tartaric acid, phosphoric acid or any permitted preservative, permitted emulsifier, permitted stabiliser, or permitted colouring matter;
"butter for manufacturing purposes" means butter sold or intended for sale, otherwise than by retail, for use in the manufacture or production of any other article of food;
"butylated hydroxyanisole" means the substance conforming to the description, specifications and requirements for butylated hydroxyanisole contained in the Addendum 1964 to the British Pharmacopoeia 1963;
"butylated hydroxytoluene" means the substance conforming to the description, specifications and requirements for butylated hydroxytoluene contained in the Addendum 1964 to the British Pharmacopoeia 1963;
"container" includes any form of packaging of food for sale as a single item, whether by way of wholly or partly enclosing the food or by way of attaching the food to some other article, and in particular includes a wrapper or confining band;
(a) 4 & 5 Eliz. 2. c. 16.
"dairy product" means any butter (other than butter for manufacturing purposes), milk, cream, condensed milk, evaporated milk, dried milk or cheese;
"dodecyl gallate" means the substance conforming to the description, specifications and requirements for dodecyl gallate contained in the Addendum 1964 to the British Pharmacopoeia 1963;
"ethoxyquin" means 1:2 dihydro-6-ethoxy-2:2:4-trimethylquinoline conforming to the specification relating thereto in Schedule 1 to these regulations;
"food" means food intended for sale for human consumption and includes drink, chewing gum and other products of a like nature and use, and articles and substances used as ingredients in the preparation of food or drink or of such products, but does not include—
(a) water, live animals or birds,
(b) fodder or feeding stuffs for animals, birds or fish, or
(c) articles or substances used only as drugs;
"food and drugs authority" has the meaning assigned to it in Section 83 of the Act;
"octyl gallate" means the substance conforming to the description, specifications and requirements for octyl gallate contained in the Addendum 1964 to the British Pharmacopoeia 1963;
"partial glycerol esters" has the meaning assigned to it in the Emulsifiers and Stabilisers in Food Regulations 1962(a);
"permitted colouring matter" means any colouring matter inasmuch as its use is permitted by the Colouring Matter in Food Regulations 1966(b);
"permitted emulsifier" means any emulsifier inasmuch as its use is permitted by the Emulsifiers and Stabilisers in Food Regulations 1962;
"permitted preservative" means any preservative inasmuch as its use is permitted by the Preservatives in Food Regulations 1962(c);
"permitted stabiliser" means any stabiliser inasmuch as its use is permitted by the Emulsifiers and Stabilisers in Food Regulations 1962;
"propyl gallate" means the substance conforming to the description, specifications and requirements for propyl gallate contained in the British Pharmacopoeia 1963;
"sell" includes offer or expose for sale or have in possession for sale and "sale" and "sold" shall be construed accordingly;
"specified food" means any food of a description specified in column 1 of table 1 or of table 2 of Schedule 2 to these regulations;
AND other expressions have the same meaning as in the Act.
(2) The Interpretation Act 1889(d) shall apply to the interpretation of these regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament, and as if these regulations and the regulations hereby revoked were Acts of Parliament.
(3) All amounts mentioned in these regulations are amounts calculated by weight and, unless a contrary intention is expressed, are calculated on the weight of the product as sold.
(4) Any reference in these regulations to a label borne on a container shall be construed as including a reference to any legible marking on the container however effected.
(5) For the purposes of these regulations, the supply of food, otherwise than by sale, at, in...
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