{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bread-and-flour-regulations-1998/schedule-1n1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bread-and-flour-regulations-1998/schedule-1n1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/141",
  "legislation_title": "The Bread and Flour Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bread-and-flour-regulations-1998",
  "path": "schedule/1n1",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Essential Ingredients of Flour",
  "text": "Column 1\nSubstance\nColumn 2\nRequired quantity, in milligrams per hundred grams of flour, and conditions of use\n(1)\nCalcium carbonate\n(a) not less than 300, and\n(b) not more than 455,\n(c) conforming with the criteria for E 170 calcium carbonate in the Annex to Commission Regulation (EU)231/2012 laying down specifications for food additives listed in Annexes 2 and 3 to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council.\n(2)\nIron\n(a) not less than 2.10,\n(b) in the form of any, or any combination of two or more, of the following—\n(i) ferric ammonium citrate conforming to the criteria in the monograph for ferric ammonium citrate contained in the British Pharmacopoeia 1973 at page 201;\n(ii) ferrous sulphate conforming to the criteria in the monograph for ferrous sulphate heptahydrate contained in the British Pharmacopoeia 2023 at page I-1037;\n(iii) dried ferrous sulphate conforming to the criteria in the monograph for dried ferrous sulphate contained in the British Pharmacopoeia 2023 at page I-1036;\n(iv) iron powder conforming to the description, specification and requirements contained in Schedule 2.\n(3)\nThiamin (Vitamin B1)\n(a) not less than 0.24,\n(b) in a form conforming to the criteria in the monograph for thiamin hydrochloride contained in the British Pharmacopoeia 2023 at page II-1129.\n(4)\nNiacin\n(a) not less than 2.40,\n(b) in a form conforming to the criteria in the monograph for nicotinic acid contained in the British Pharmacopoeia 2023 at page II-404, or in a form conforming to the criteria in the monograph for nicotinamide contained in the British Pharmacopoeia 2023 at page II-399.\n(5)\nFolic Acid\n(a) 0.250,\n(b) in the form of pteroylmonoglutamic acid conforming to the criteria in the monograph for folic acid hydrate contained in the British Pharmacopoeia 2023 at page I-1110",
  "extent": "E",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (W.) (19.2.2025) by The Bread and Flour (Wales) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/88), regs. 1(2), 14 (with regs. 15, 16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 substituted (E.) (13.12.2024) by The Bread and Flour (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1162), regs. 2(2)(b), 3(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision applies to England only; a separate version has been created for Wales and Scotland only"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/141/schedule/1n1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:38:41.817252+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}