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  "legislation_title": "Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001",
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  "text": "Column 1\nColumn 2\nColumn 3\nColumn 4\nColumn 5\nColumn 6\nColumn 7\nEEC No.\nName or Description\nChemical formula\nKind of animal permitted\nMaximum content (mg/kg in complete feeding stuff)\nMinimum content (mg/kg in complete feeding stuff)\nConditions\n(1) Note also that one preservative is permitted by virtue of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1594/1999 as referred to in Part IX of this Table.\nE222\nSodium hydrogensulphite (Sodium bisulphite)\nNaHSO3\nDogs and Cats\n500 alone or together expressed as SO2\nAll feeding stuffs except unprocessed meat and fish\nE223\nDisodium disulphite (Sodium metabisulphite)\nNa2S2O5\nDogs and Cats\n500 alone or together expressed as SO2\nAll feeding stuffs except unprocessed meat and fish\nE250\nSodium nitrite\nNaNO2\nDogs and Cats\n100 (feeding stuffs with a moisture content exceeding 20% only)\nE214\nEthyl 4-hydroxybenzoate\nC9H10O3\nPet animals\nNo limit\nAll feeding stuffs\nE215\nSodium ethyl 4-hydroxybenzoate\nC9H9O3Na\nPet animals\nNo limit\nAll feeding stuffs\nE216\nPropyl 4-hydroxybenzoate\nC10H12O3\nPet animals\nNo limit\nAll feeding stuffs\nE217\nSodium propyl 4-hydroxybenzoate\nC10H11O3Na\nPet animals\nNo limit\nAll feeding stuffs\nE218\nMethyl 4-hydroxybenzoate\nC8H8O3\nPet animals\nNo limit\nAll feeding stuffs\nE219\nSodium methyl 4-hydroxybenzoate\nC8H7O3Na\nPet animals\nNo limit\nAll feeding stuffs\nE490\nPropan- 1, 2-diol\nC3H8O2\nDogs\n53,000\nAll feeding stuffs\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",
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