Paragraph 2

England, Wales and Scotland

Fruit, fruit pulp, fruit purée and aqueous extract of fruit may be treated in the following ways:

(a)

heated, chilled or frozen;

(b)

freeze-dried;

(c)

concentrated, to the extent that is technically possible;

(d)

except in relation to extra jam or extra jelly, sulphited, that is to say sulphur dioxide (E 220) or its salts (E 221, E 222, E 223, E 224, E 226 and E 227) may be used as an aid to manufacture provided that the maximum sulphur-dioxide content laid down in F1Regulation (EU) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on food additives F2, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EU) 2018/1497, is not exceeded.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in Sch. 2 para. 2(d) substituted (1.6.2018) by The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/575), regs. 1(2), 19(5)
F2: Words in Sch. 2 para. 2(d) inserted (29.3.2019) by The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/526), regs. 1(2), 26(3)(b)