{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-regulations-1995/schedule-4/part-VIII/crossheading-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-regulations-1995/schedule-4/part-VIII/crossheading-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1412",
  "legislation_title": "The Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-regulations-1995",
  "path": "schedule/4/part/VIII/crossheading/2",
  "kind": "crossheading",
  "number": "CHAPTER B",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Column 1\nColumn 2\nColumn 3\nColumn 4\nColumn 5\nColumn 6\nEEC No.\nName or description\nChemical formula\nKind of animal\nMaximum content (mg/kg in complete feeding stuff)\nMinimum content (mg/kg in complete feeding stuff)\nE222\nSodium hydrogensulphite (sodium bisulphite)—Not permitted in unprocessed meat and fish\nNaHSO3\nDogs and Cats\n500 alone or together expressed as SO2\nE223\ndiSodium disulphite (Sodium metabisulphite)——Not permitted in unprocessed meat and fish\nNa2S2O5\nDogs and Cats\n500 alone or together expressed as SO2\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\nPet animals\nNo limit\nE216\nPropyl 4-hydroxybenzoate\nC10H12O3\nPet animals\nNo limit\nE217\nSodium propyl 4-hydroxybenzoate\nC10H11O3Na\nPet animals\nNo limit\nE218\nMethyl 4-hydroxybenzoate\nC8H8O3\nPet animals\nNo limit\nE219\nSodium methyl 4-hydroxybenzoate\nC8H7O3Na\nPet animals\nNo limit\nE490\nPropane-1, 2-diol\nC3H8O2\nDogs\n53,000\nE240\nFormaldehyde\nCH2O\nAll species of animals Pigs up to the age of six months\nNo limit (for silage only) 600 (skimmed milk only)\nE285\nMethylpropionic acid\nC4H8O2\nRuminants at the beginning of rumination\n4,000\n1,000",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/1260",
      "affecting_title": "The Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/1260",
      "affecting_title": "The Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/104",
      "affecting_title": "The Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/2072",
      "affecting_title": "The Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1998"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1412/schedule/4/part/VIII/crossheading/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:08:39.063561+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."
}