{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colours-in-food-regulations-1995/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colours-in-food-regulations-1995/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/3124",
  "legislation_title": "The Colours in Food Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colours-in-food-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Sale of colours and food containing colours",
  "text": "(1) No person shall sell any colour for use in or on food unless such colour is a permitted colour.\n(2) No person shall sell directly to the consumer any colour other than a specified permitted colour.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2) above, a “specified permitted colour” shall be any permitted colour other than—\n(a) E 123 Amaranth;\n(b) E 127 Erythrosine;\n(c) E 128 Red 2G;\n(d) E 154 Brown FK;\n(e) E 160b Annatto, bixin, norbixin;\n(f) E 161g Canthaxanthin;\n(g) E 173 Aluminium, and\n(h) E 180 Litholrubine BK.\n(4) No person shall sell any food having in it or on it any added colour other than a permitted colour that has been used in or on that food without contravening any of the provisions of regulations 3, 4, 5 and 6.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/3124/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:56:55.708248+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."
}