{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/miscellaneous-food-additives-regulations-1995/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/miscellaneous-food-additives-regulations-1995/regulation-5.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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Sale of food additives and food containing miscellaneous additives",
  "text": "(1) No person shall sell any miscellaneous additive for use in or on food unless that additive is a permitted miscellaneous additive.\n(2) No person shall sell any miscellaneous additive for use primarily as a carrier or carrier solvent unless that additive is a permitted miscellaneous additive listed in Schedule 4.\n(3) No person shall sell directly to the consumer any miscellaneous additive other than a permitted miscellaneous additive.\n(4) No person shall sell any food having in it or on it any added miscellaneous additive other than a permitted miscellaneous additive which has been used, or is present, in or on that food without contravening any of the provisions of paragraphs (1) to (5), (7) or (8) of regulation 3.\n(5) No person shall sell any relevant food additive in combination with a miscellaneous additive which has been used primarily as a carrier or carrier solvent unless that miscellaneous additive has been used in respect of that relevant food additive without contravening the provisions of regulation 3(6).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/3187/regulation/5",
    "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."
}