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Paragraph 2

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The requirements for a consumer sale of food additives are observed in relation to that sale where—

(a)

the name used for the product comprising the food additives—

(i)

comprises a description of those food additives specified in regulations in force under the Act and is accompanied by an EEC number also specified in those regulations in relation to each additive in that description, or

(ii)

in any case where there is no such description so specified or there are food additives comprised in that description relating to which there is no EEC number so specified, comprises a description sufficiently precise to enable it to be distinguished from any product with which it could be confused,

(b)

there are stated on the container the essential contents, that is to say—

(i)

the name (or, as the case may be, the name and EEC number)

used for the product,

(ii)

the information, in relation to the food additives, required by paragraphs 1 to 7 of Part II of this Schedule, and

(iii)

insofar as neither regulation 21 of the Food Labelling Regulations 1984 nor regulation 21 of the Food Labelling (Scotland) Regulations 1984 applies to the product, the indication of minimum durability of the product which would be required by that regulation if the product had been a food to which either regulation applied, and

(c)

those essential contents are so stated as to be conspicuous, clearly legible and indelible.