Regulation 3 Amendment of the Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

after the definition of “colour”, there shall be inserted –

• “Directive 88/388 EC means Council Directive 88/388/EEC^f1 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to flavourings for use in foodstuffs and to source materials for their production”.

in the definition of “Directive 95/2/EC” for “and European Parliament and Council Directive 2001/5/EC” there shall be substituted –

• “, European Parliament and Council Directive 2001/5/EC^f2 and European Parliament and Council Directive 2003/114/EC^f3”;

after the definition of flavour enhancer, there shall be inserted –

• ““flavouring” bears the same meaning as in Article 1.2 of Directive 88/388/EEC^f4;”;

for the definition of “stabiliser”, there shall be substituted –

• ““stabiliser” means any substance which makes it possible to maintain the physico-chemical state of a foodstuff; including any substance which enables the maintenance of a homogenous dispersion of two or more immiscible substances in a foodstuff, substances which stabilise, retain or intensify an existing colour of a foodstuff and substances which increase the binding capacity of the food, including the formation of cross-links between proteins enabling the binding of food pieces into re-constituted food;”.