{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-1333/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-1333/article-8.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/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Specific conditions for colours",
  "text": "A food additive may be authorised for primary use for the functional class of colour only if, in addition to serving one or more of the purposes set out in Article 6(2), it serves one of the following purposes:\n(a)restoring the original appearance of food of which the colour has been affected by processing, storage, packaging and distribution, whereby visual acceptability may have been impaired;\n(b)making food more visually appealing;\n(c)giving colour to food otherwise colourless.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 8 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(9) (with reg. 23)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2008/1333/article/8",
    "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."
}