Artificial Sweeteners in Food Regulations 1969
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1969/1817 |
| Year | 1969 |
1969 No. 1817
FOOD AND DRUGS
COMPOSITION AND LABELLING
The Artificial Sweeteners in Food Regulations 196917thDecember 1969
30thDecember 1969
1stJanuary 1970
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State for Social Services, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 4, 7 and 123 of the Food and Drugs Act 1955(a), as read with the Secretary of State for Social Services Order 1968(b), 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 are made in exercise of the powers conferred by the said section 7):—
PART I
PRELIMINARY
Citation and commencement
1. These regulations may be cited as the Artificial Sweeteners in Food Regulations 1969, and shall come into operation on 1st January 1970.
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 ;
"carbohydrate" means a substance containing carbon, hydrogen and oxygen only in which the hydrogen and oxygen occur in the same proportion as in water;
(a) 4 & 5 Eliz. 2. c. 16.
(b) S.I. 1968/1699 (1968 III, p. 4585).
"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 paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to these regulations;
"half strength tablets" means artificial sweetening tablets which comply with the requirements as to composition set out in paragraph 2 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 or saccharin sodium;
"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 1968;
"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 1968 ;
"sell" includes offer or expose for sale or have in possession for sale ; and
"sale" and "sold" shall be construed accordingly;
"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...
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