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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/miscellaneous-food-additives-regulations-1995/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/3187",
  "legislation_title": "The Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations 1995",
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  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Defence in relation to exports",
  "text": "In any proceedings for an offence under these Regulations it shall be a defence for the person charged to prove—\n(a) that the food or, as the case may be, the food additive in respect of which the offence is alleged to have been committed was intended for export to a country which has legislation analogous to these Regulations and that such food or food additive complies with that legislation; and\n(b) in the case of export to another member State, that the legislation complies with Directive 89/107/EEC and Directive 95/2/EC.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2626",
      "affecting_title": "The Official Feed and Food Controls (England) Regulations 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/1413",
      "affecting_title": "The Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) Regulations 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "wsi/2005/3254",
      "affecting_title": "The Official Feed and Food Controls (Wales) Regulations 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "ssi/2005/616",
      "affecting_title": "The Official Feed and Food Controls (Scotland) Regulations 2005"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/3187/regulation/8",
    "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."
}