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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-additives-scotland-regulations-2009/schedule",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2009/436",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Additives (Scotland) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-additives-scotland-regulations-2009",
  "path": "schedule",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "SPECIFIED REGULATION 1333/2008 PROVISIONS",
  "text": "Provision of Regulation 1333/2008\nSubject – matter\nArticle 4.1 (as read with Articles 11.3 and 4, 12, 13.2, 15, 16 and 18.1(a), 2 and 3)\nRequirement that only food additives included in the list in Annex II to Regulation 1333/2008 be placed on the market as such and that they be used in accordance with any conditions specified in that Annex.\nArticle 4.2 (as read with Articles 12, 13.2 and 18.3)\nRequirement that only food additives included in the list in Annex III to Regulation 1333/2008 may be used in food additives, food enzymes, food flavourings and nutrients and under the conditions of use specified in that Annex.\nArticle 4.5\nRequirement that food additives comply with the specifications referred to in Article 14 of Regulation 1333/2008.\nArticle 5\nProhibition on placing on the market of food additives or food containing food additives if the use of the food additive does not comply with Regulation 1333/2008.\nArticle 11.2\nRequirement to use food additives in accordance with the quantum satis principle where no maximum numerical level fixed for the additive concerned.\nArticle 15\nProhibition on use of food additives in unprocessed foods except where provided for in Annex II to Regulation 1333/2008.\nArticle 16\nProhibition on use of food additives in foods for infants and young children (including dietary foods for infants and young children for special medical purposes) except where provided for in Annex II to Regulation 1333/2008.\nArticle 17\nRequirement to use only food colours listed in Annex II to Regulation 1333/2008 for the purpose of health marking meat or meat products, decorative colouring of eggshells or stamping of eggshells.\nArticle 18.1(b) (as read with Article 18.2)\nRequirement that food additives be present in food to which a food additive, food enzyme or food flavouring has been added, only if the additive is permitted in the additive, enzyme or flavouring under Regulation 1333/2008, has been carried over to the food via the additive, enzyme or flavouring and has no technological function in the final food.\nArticle 18.1(c) (as read with Article 18.2)\nRequirement that food additives be present in foods to be used solely in the preparation of a compound food only if the compound food complies with Regulation 1333/2008.\nArticle 18.4\nRequirement that food additives be used as sweeteners in compound foods with no added sugars, energy reduced compound foods with no added sugars, energy reduced compound foods, compound dietary foods intended for low calorie diets, non cariogenic compound foods and compound foods with an increased shelf life only if the sweetener is permitted in any of the ingredients of the compound food.\nArticle 21.1\nRequirement that food additives not intended for sale to the final consumer be labelled, in accordance with Article 22 of Regulation 1333/2008, visibly, clearly legibly and indelibly and in a language easily understandable to purchasers.\nArticle 22.1 (as read with Article 22.4 and 5 and the second paragraph of Article 31)\nRequirement that food additives not intended for sale to the final consumer be sold only if their packaging or containers bear specified information.\nArticle 22.2 (as read with Article 22.4 and 5 and the second paragraph of Article 31)\nRequirement that food additives mixed with each other and/or with other food ingredients be sold only if their packaging or containers bear a list of ingredients in descending order of their percentage by weight of the total.\nArticle 22.3 (as read with Article 22.4 and 5 and the second paragraph of Article 31)\nRequirement that, where substances (including food additives or other food ingredients) are added to food additives to facilitate their storage, sale, standardisation or dissolution, their packaging or containers bear a list of all such substances in descending order of their percentage by weight of the total.\nArticle 23.1 (as read with Article 23.2 and 5)\nProhibition on marketing of food additives sold singly or mixed with each other and/or other food ingredients and intended for sale to the final consumer unless their packaging contains specified information.\nArticle 23.3 (as read with Article 23.5)\nRequirement that the labelling of table-top sweeteners containing polyols and/or aspartame and/or aspartame – acesulfame salt bear specified warnings.\nArticle 26.1\nRequirement that producers and users of food additives inform the Commission immediately of any new scientific or technical information which might affect the assessment of the safety of the food additive concerned.\nArticle 26.2\nRequirement that producers and users of food additives, at the request of the Commission, inform it of the actual use of the food additive concerned.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in sch. Table inserted (23.5.2012) by The Food Additives (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2012 (S.S.I. 2012/119), regs. 1, 2(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. in force at 20.1.2010, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "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."
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