Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

• “the Act” means the Food Safety Act 1990;

• “container”, in relation to food additives, has the same meaning as in the Act, except that it also includes a vehicle in which those food additives, not being in any other container, are placed;

• “food” has the same meaning as in the Act, except that it is limited to food intended for sale for human consumption;

• “food additive” means such food as comprises material (with or without nutritive value)—

  1. (a)

     which is within a category (or more than one category) listed in Part I, as supplemented by Part II, of Schedule 1 below,

  2. (b)

     which is neither normally consumed as a food in itself nor normally used as a characteristic ingredient of food,

  3. (c)

     which is not within a category (or more than one category) listed in Schedule 2 below, and

  4. (d)

     the intentional addition of which to other food for a technological purpose in the manufacture, processing, preparation, treatment, packaging, transport or storage of that other food results, or may be reasonably expected to result, in that material or its by-products becoming directly or indirectly a component of that other food;

• “sell” includes offer or expose for sale or have in possession for sale, “sale” shall be construed accordingly and, in relation to food additives—

  1. (a)

     “consumer sale” means a sale of them—

     1. (i)

        to the ultimate consumer, or

     2. (ii)

        in a container in which they are ready for delivery to the ultimate consumer, and

  2. (b)

     “business sale” means a sale of them other than a consumer sale;

• “supplementary material” means, in relation to a food additive, material (whether or not it comes within a category, or more than one category, listed in Schedule 2 below) the presence of which in or on the food additive may reasonably be expected to facilitate storage, sale, standardisation, dilution or dissolution of the food additive; and

• “ultimate consumer” has the meaning which it has in the Food Labelling Regulations 1984^f1.