{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-regulations-1988/schedule-4/part-VIII/crossheading-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-regulations-1988/schedule-4/part-VIII/crossheading-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/396",
  "legislation_title": "The Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-regulations-1988",
  "path": "schedule/4/part/VIII/crossheading/2",
  "kind": "crossheading",
  "number": "CHAPTER B",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1)\n(2)\n(3)\n(4)\n(5)\nEEC No.\nName or Description\nChemical formula\nKind of Animal\nMaximum content (mg/kg in complete feeding stuff)\nE222\nSodium hydrogensulphite (sodium bisulphite)\n} Not permitted in unprocessed meat and fish\nNaHSO3\nDogs and Cats\n500 alone or together expressed as SO22\nE223\ndiSodium disulphite (sodium metabisulphite)\nNa2S2O5\nE250\nSodium nitrite\nNaNO2\nDogs and Cats\n100 (canned feeding stuffs only)\nE214\nEthyl 4-hydroxybenzoate\nC9H10O3 }\nPet animals\nNo limit\nE215\nSodium ethyl 4-hydroxybenzoate\nC9H9O3Na }\nE216\nPropyl 4-hydroxybenzoate\nC10H12O3 }\nE217\nSodium propyl 4-hydroxybenzoate\nC10H11O3Na }\nE218\nMethyl 4-hydroxybenzoate\nC8H8O3 }\nE219\nSodium methyl 4-hydroxybenzoate\nC8H7O3Na }\nE490\nPropane-1,2-diol\nC3H8O2\nCats\n75,000\nDogs\n53,000\nE240\nFormaldehyde\nCH2O\nAll species of animal\nNo limit (for silage only)\nPigs up to the age of six months\n600 (in skimmed milk only)",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/2014",
      "affecting_title": "The Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations 1989"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/1475",
      "affecting_title": "The Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations 1991"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/396/schedule/4/part/VIII/crossheading/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:10:34.656802+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."
}