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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-848/article-7",
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  "legislation": "eur/2018/848",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) 2018/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on organic production and labelling of organic products and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-848",
  "path": "article/7",
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  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Specific principles applicable to the processing of organic food",
  "text": "The production of processed organic food shall be based, in particular, on the following specific principles:\n(a) the production of organic food from organic agricultural ingredients;\n(b) the restriction of the use of food additives, of non-organic ingredients with mainly technological and sensory functions, and of micronutrients and processing aids, so that they are used to a minimum extent and only in cases of essential technological need or for particular nutritional purposes;\n(c) the exclusion of substances and processing methods that might be misleading as regards the true nature of the product;\n(d) the processing of organic food with care, preferably through the use of biological, mechanical and physical methods;\n(e) the exclusion of food containing, or consisting of, engineered nanomaterials.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2018/848/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:44:05.823342+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."
}