{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-1333/article-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-1333/article-17.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2008/1333",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on food additives (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-1333",
  "path": "article/17",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Use of colours for markings",
  "text": "Only food colours that are authorised for primary use may be used, as provided for in the authorisations concerned, for the purpose of health marking as provided for in Council Directive 91/497/EEC of 29 July 1991 amending and consolidating Directive 64/433/EEC on health problems affecting intra-Community trade in fresh meat to extend it to the production and marketing of fresh meat and other markings required on meat products, for the decorative colouring of eggshells and for the stamping of eggshells as provided for in Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 17 substituted (E.W.S.) (1.4.2025) by The Food and Feed (Regulated Products) (Amendment, Revocation, Consequential and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/361), regs. 1(2), 8(19) (with reg. 23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 268, 24.9.1991, p. 69."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 139, 30.4.2004, p. 55. Corrected by OJ L 226, 25.6.2004, p. 22."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2008/1333/article/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:51:44.765413+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."
}