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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/miscellaneous-food-additives-amendment-england-regulations-2001/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/60",
  "legislation_title": "The Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/miscellaneous-food-additives-amendment-england-regulations-2001",
  "path": "note",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations, which apply to England only, amend the Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations 1995, as amended (“the principal Regulations”).\nThe Regulations implement Commission Directive 2000/63/EC amending Directive 96/77/EC laying down specific purity criteria on food additives other than colours and sweeteners (OJ No. L277, 30.10.2000, p. 1).\nSubject to a transitional provision, the Regulations amend the existing requirements in the principal Regulations as regards the purity criteria for butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and specify new purity criteria in relation to the additives specified in Annex II to Commission Directive 2000/63/EC (regulations 3 to 5).\nThe Regulations also make consequential amendments to the instruments specified in regulation 4, as regards references in those instruments to the principal Regulations (regulation 6).\nNo regulatory impact assessment has been prepared in respect of these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/60/note",
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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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