{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mineral-hydrocarbons-in-food-regulations-1966/schedule/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mineral-hydrocarbons-in-food-regulations-1966/schedule/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1966/1073",
  "legislation_title": "The Mineral Hydrocarbons in Food Regulations 1966",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mineral-hydrocarbons-in-food-regulations-1966",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Specification for semi-liquid mineral hydrocarbon",
  "text": "Semi-liquid mineral hydrocarbon—\n(a) shall be a white translucent unctuous mixture, barely fluorescent in daylight, of semi-liquid mineral hydrocarbons;\n(b) shall contain not more than 0.1 per cent. by weight of sulphated ash;\n(c) shall have an ultra-violet extinction (otherwise called absorbance) at 290 millimicrons not greater than 1.0 for a 1 centimetre layer of a solution in iso-octane containing 1 gram per litre, that is to say, E ⁢ 0.1% 1 cm. shall not be greater than 1.0 where E=log10 (Io/I) and Io and I are the intensities of the incident radiation and of the transmitted radiation respectively; and\n(d) shall comply with the tests for acidity or alkalinity and sulphur compounds given in the monograph for Liquid Paraffin in the British Pharmacopoeia 1963.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1966/1073/schedule/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:43:23.536367+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."
}