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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-labelling-regulations-1996/regulation-17",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1499",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Labelling Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-labelling-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/17",
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  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Ingredients which need not be named",
  "text": "The following ingredients of a food need not be named in its list of ingredients:\n(a) constituents of an ingredient which have become temporarily separated during the manufacturing process and are later re-introduced in their original proportions;\n(b) any additive whose presence in the food is due solely to the fact that it was contained in an ingredient of the food, if it serves no significant technological function in the finished product;\n(c) any additive which is used solely as a processing aid;\n(d) any substance other than water which is used as a solvent or carrier for an additive and is used in an amount that is no more than that which is strictly necessary for that purpose.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "affecting": "uksi/2004/2824",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Labelling (Amendment) (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2004"
    },
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      "affecting_title": "The Food Labelling (Amendment) (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2004"
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      "affecting_title": "The Food Labelling (Amendment) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/3235",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Enzymes Regulations 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
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      "affecting_title": "The Food Enzymes Regulations 2009"
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      "affecting_title": "The Food Labelling (Amendment) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2009/3377",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Enzymes (Wales) Regulations 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2004/472",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Labelling Amendment (No. 2) (Scotland) Regulations 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2004/472",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Labelling Amendment (No. 2) (Scotland) Regulations 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2009/435",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Enzymes (Scotland) Regulations 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2009/435",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Enzymes (Scotland) Regulations 2009"
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1499/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:42:11.542130+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."
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