{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-1925/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-1925/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2006/1925",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 1925/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 on the addition of vitamins and minerals and of certain other substances to foods",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-1925",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Restrictions on the addition of vitamins and minerals",
  "text": "Vitamins and minerals may not be added to:\n(a)unprocessed foodstuffs, including, but not limited to, fruit, vegetables, meat, poultry and fish;\n(b)beverages containing more than 1,2 % by volume of alcohol, except and by way of derogation from Article 3(2), to products:\n(i)referred to in paragraph B3 of Annex VIII to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013; and\n(ii)which were marketed prior to the adoption of this Regulation; ...\n(iii). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .,\nand provided that no nutrition or health claim is made.\nThe appropriate authority may by regulations determine the additional foods or categories of foods to which particular vitamins and minerals may not be added, in the light of scientific evidence and taking into account their nutritional value.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 4(b)(i) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Nutrition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/651), regs. 1(1), 18(5)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Art. 4(b)(ii) omitted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Nutrition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/651), regs. 1(1), 18(5)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 4(b)(iii) omitted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Nutrition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/651), regs. 1(1), 18(5)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4 substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Nutrition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/651), regs. 1(1), 18(5)(d); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2006/1925/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:53:11.707115+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."
}