Artificial Sweeteners in Food (Scotland) Regulations 1969
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1969/1848 |
| Year | 1969 |
1969 No. 1848 (S. 164)
FOOD AND DRUGS
COMPOSITION AND LABELLING—SCOTLAND
The Artificial Sweeteners in Food (Scotland) Regulations 196918thDecember 1969
31stDecember 1969
1stJanuary 1970
In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by sections 4, 7 and 56 of the Food and Drugs (Scotland) Act 1956(a), and of all other powers enabling me in that behalf, and after consultation with such organisations as appear to me to be representative of interests substantially affected by these regulations and after reference to the Scottish Food Hygiene Council under section 25 of the said Act (in so far as the regulations are made in exercise of the powers conferred by the said section 7), I hereby make the following regulations:—
PART I
PRELIMINARY
Citation and commencement
1. These regulations may be cited as the Artificial Sweeteners in Food (Scotland) 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 (Scotland) Act 1956;
"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;
"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;
(a) 1956 c. 30.
"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 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, in so far as they prescribe requirements as to composition for artificial sweetening tablets...
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