# The Food Additives Labelling Regulations 1992, 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)—
(a) which is within a category (or more than one category) listed in Part I, as supplemented by Part II, of Schedule 1 below,
(b) which is neither normally consumed as a food in itself nor normally used as a characteristic ingredient of food,
(c) which is not within a category (or more than one category) listed in Schedule 2 below, and
(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—
(a) “consumer sale” means a sale of them—
(i) to the ultimate consumer, or
(ii) in a container in which they are ready for delivery to the ultimate consumer, and
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1978/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/food-additives-labelling-regulations-1992/regulation-2
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