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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-regulations-northern-ireland-1995/schedule-4/part-VIII/crossheading-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-regulations-northern-ireland-1995/schedule-4/part-VIII/crossheading-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1995/451",
  "legislation_title": "Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-regulations-northern-ireland-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-l, 2-diol\nC3H8O2\nDogs\n53000\nE240\nFormaldehyde\nCH2O\nAll species of animals\nPigs up to the age of six months\nNo limit (for silage only\n600 (skimmed milk only)\nE285\nMethylpropionic acid\nC4H8O2\nRuminants at the beginning of rumination\n4000\n1000",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/259",
      "affecting_title": "Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/259",
      "affecting_title": "Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/259",
      "affecting_title": "Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1998/373",
      "affecting_title": "Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1995/451/schedule/4/part/VIII/crossheading/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:38:50.292127+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."
}