Emulsifiers and Stabilisers in Food (Amendment) Regulations 1982
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1982/16 |
| Year | 1982 |
1982 No. 16
FOOD
COMPOSITION AND LABELLING
The Emulsifiers and Stabilisers in Food (Amendment) Regulations 19828thJanuary 1982
18thJanuary 1982
29thMay 1982
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Social Services and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 4, 7 and 123 of the Food and Drugs Act 1955(a), and now vested in them(b), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following regulations, after consultation in accordance with section 123(6) of the said Act with such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests substantially affected by the regulations and after reference in accordance with section 82 of the said Act to the Food Hygiene Advisory Council (in so far as the regulations are made in exercise of the powers conferred by the said section 7):—
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These regulations may be cited as the Emulsifiers and Stabilisers in Food (Amendment) Regulations 1982 and shall come into operation on 29th May 1982.
(2) Any reference in these regulations to a numbered regulation or schedule shall be construed as a reference to the regulation or schedule so numbered in the Emulsifiers and Stabilisers in Food Regulations 1980(c).
Amendment of the Emulsifiers and Stabilisers in Food Regulations 1980
2. The Emulsifiers and Stabilisers in Food Regulations 1980 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of these regulations.
Amendment of regulation 4(2)
3. For regulation 4(2) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—
"(2) No food sold or imported shall have in it or on it any added permitted emulsifier or added permitted stabiliser specified in column 1 of Part I of Schedule 2 unless the food is specified in relation to that emulsifier or stabiliser in column 2 of that Part of that Schedule and the proportion of that emulsifier or stabiliser in or on the food is the appropriate proportion specified in column 3 of that Part of that Schedule.".
(a) 1955 c. 16 (4 & 5 Eliz. 2); section 4 was amended by section 4(1) of, and paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 4 to, the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68).
(b) S.I. 1968/1699, 1978/272.
(c) S.I. 1980/1833.
Amendment of Schedule 1
4.—(1) the items relating to ghatti gum shall be deleted from Parts I and II of Schedule 1.
(2) In column 2 of the item relating to xanthan gum in Part I of Schedule 1...
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