{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-supplements-england-regulations-2003/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-supplements-england-regulations-2003/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1387",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Supplements (England) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-supplements-england-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Prohibitions on sale relating to composition of food supplements",
  "text": "(1) ..., no person shall sell a food supplement in the manufacture of which a vitamin or mineral has been used unless that vitamin or mineral—\n(a) is listed in Schedule 1 to the Nutrition (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019; and\n(b) is in a form which—\n(i) is listed in Schedule 2 to the Nutrition (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, and\n(ii) meets the relevant purity criteria.\n(2) The relevant purity criteria for the purposes of paragraph (1)(b)(ii) are—\n(a) the purity criteria, if any, specified in EU-derived domestic legislation, assimilated direct legislation or in regulations made by the Secretary of State under regulation 3 of the Nutrition (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019; or\n(b) in the absence of such purity criteria, generally acceptable purity criteria for the substance in question recommended by international bodies.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5(1) omitted (1.1.2010) by virtue of The Food Supplements (England) and Addition of Vitamins, Minerals and Other Substances (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3251), regs. 1, 2(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5(1)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Nutrition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/651), regs. 1(1), 12(4)(a)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5(1)(b)(i) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Nutrition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/651), regs. 1(1), 12(4)(a)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 5(2)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Nutrition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/651), regs. 1(1), 12(4)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5(2)(a) substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 5(3) omitted (1.1.2010) by virtue of The Food Supplements (England) and Addition of Vitamins, Minerals and Other Substances (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3251), regs. 1, 2(5)(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1387/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:23:34.699582+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."
}