{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/miscellaneous-food-additives-regulations-1995/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/miscellaneous-food-additives-regulations-1995/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/3187",
  "legislation_title": "The Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/miscellaneous-food-additives-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Use of miscellaneous additives in or on compound foods",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4) below, any food in or on which a permitted miscellaneous additive is used without contravening any of the provisions of paragraphs (2) to (5) or (7) of regulation 3 may itself be used as an ingredient in a compound food in or on which the use of such miscellaneous additive is not otherwise permitted; and the presence in or on that compound food of such miscellaneous additive as a result of its containing such an ingredient shall not constitute a contravention of any of the provisions of those paragraphs of regulation 3.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (4) below, there may be used in or on a food any permitted miscellaneous additive the use of which would otherwise constitute a contravention of any of the provisions of paragraphs (2) to (5) or (7) of regulation 3, where such a food is destined to be used solely in the preparation of a compound food and the resulting presence in or on that compound food of such miscellaneous additive does not itself constitute a contravention of any of the provisions of those paragraphs of regulation 3.\n(3) Paragraph (1) above shall not apply in the case of any compound food listed in Schedule 6 or in column 1 of Schedule 7.\n(4) Paragraphs (1) and (2) above shall not apply in the case of any food for infants or young children as referred to in Directive 89/398/EEC, except where specifically provided in these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/1413",
      "affecting_title": "The Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) Regulations 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/1099",
      "affecting_title": "The Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2005/1311",
      "affecting_title": "The Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) (No.2) (Wales) Regulations 2005 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2005/214",
      "affecting_title": "The Miscellaneous Food Additives Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2005 (revoked)"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/3187/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:56:15.550986+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."
}