{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-additives-labelling-regulations-1992/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-additives-labelling-regulations-1992/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1978",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Additives Labelling Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-additives-labelling-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the Food Safety Act 1990;\n“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;\n“food” has the same meaning as in the Act, except that it is limited to food intended for sale for human consumption;\n“food additive” means such food as comprises material (with or without nutritive value)—\n(a) which is within a category (or more than one category) listed in Part I, as supplemented by Part II, of Schedule 1 below,\n(b) which is neither normally consumed as a food in itself nor normally used as a characteristic ingredient of food,\n(c) which is not within a category (or more than one category) listed in Schedule 2 below, and\n(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;\n“sell” includes offer or expose for sale or have in possession for sale, “sale” shall be construed accordingly and, in relation to food additives—\n(a) “consumer sale” means a sale of them—\n(i) to the ultimate consumer, or\n(ii) in a container in which they are ready for delivery to the ultimate consumer, and\n(b) “business sale” means a sale of them other than a consumer sale;\n“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\n“ultimate consumer” has the meaning which it has in the Food Labelling Regulations 1984.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1984/1305; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1990/2486, 1992/1971."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/3187",
      "affecting_title": "The Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/1499",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Labelling Regulations 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1978/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:17:23.952169+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."
}