Artificial Sweeteners in Food Regulations 1967
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1967/1119 |
| Year | 1967 |
1967 No. 1119
FOOD AND DRUGS
COMPOSITION AND LABELLING
The Artificial Sweeteners in Food Regulations 196724thJuly 1967
31stJuly 1967
1stDecember 1967Remainder1stAugust 1967
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, 123 and 136(2) of, and paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 12 to, 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 of food):—
PART I
PRELIMINARY
Citation and commencement
1. These regulations may be cited as the Artificial Sweeteners in Food Regulations 1967; and shall come into operation as follows:—
(a) regulations 10 and 16 shall come into operation on 1st December 1967;
(b) in all other respects, these regulations shall come into operation on 1st August 1967.
Interpretation
2.—(1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
"the Act" means the Food and Drugs Act 1955;
"artificial sweetener" means any chemical compound which is sweet to the taste, but does not include any sugar or any polyhydric alcohol;
"artificial sweetening tablet" means any tablet which contains an artificial sweetener and which is intended for sale with a view to its use in the preparation of food;
"calcium cyclamate" means the substance conforming to the description, specifications and requirements for calcium cyclamate contained in the Addendum 1964 to the British Pharmacopoeia 1963 and containing not more than 100 parts per million by weight cyclohexylamine;
(a) 4 & 5 Eliz. 2. c. 16.
"carbohydrate" means a substance containing carbon, hydrogen and oxygen only in which the hydrogen and oxygen occur in the same proportion as in water;
"cyclamate" means calcium cyclamate, sodium cyclamate or cyclamic acid, or a mixture of two or all of these substances;
"cyclamic acid" means the substance conforming to the description, specifications and requirements for cyclamic acid contained in the Addendum 1964 to the British Pharmacopoeia 1963 and containing not more than 100 parts per million by weight cyclohexylamine;
"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 by section 83 of the Act;
"full strength tablets" means artificial sweetening tablets which comply with the requirements as to composition set out in Part I of Schedule 2 to these regulations;
"half strength tablets" means artificial sweetening tablets which comply with the requirements as to composition set out in Part II of Schedule 2 to these regulations;
"human consumption" includes use in the preparation of food for human consumption;
"permitted artificial sweetener" means saccharin, saccharin calcium, saccharin sodium, cyclamic acid, calcium cyclamate or sodium cyclamate;
"polyhydric alcohol" means an alcohol with three or more free hydroxyl groups;
"saccharin" means the substance conforming to the description, specifications and requirements for saccharin contained in the British Pharmacopoeia 1963;
"saccharin calcium" means the substance conforming to the description, specifications and requirements for saccharin calcium contained in Schedule 1 to these regulations;
"saccharin sodium" means the substance conforming to the description, specifications and requirements for saccharin sodium 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;
"sodium cyclamate" means the substance conforming to the description, specifications and requirements for sodium cyclamate contained in the Addendum 1964 to the British Pharmacopoeia 1963 and containing not more than 100 parts per million by weight cyclohexylamine;
"sugar" means any soluble carbohydrate sweetening matter; AND other expressions have the same meaning as in the Act.
(2) For the purposes of these regulations, the supply of any artificial sweetener or any food containing any artificial sweetener otherwise than by sale, at, in or from any place where artificial sweeteners or such food are or is supplied in the course of a business shall be deemed to be a sale of that artificial sweetener or that food, as the case may be; and references to purchasing and purchaser shall be construed accordingly.
(3) For the purposes of the Labelling of Food Order 1953(a), as amended(b), these regulations, insofar as they prescribe requirements as to composition for artificial sweetening tablets, shall be taken to prescribe standards for such tablets.
(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) Any reference in...
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