{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/preservatives-in-food-regulations-1989/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/preservatives-in-food-regulations-1989/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/533",
  "legislation_title": "The Preservatives in Food Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/preservatives-in-food-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Sampling and analysis of citrus fruit",
  "text": "(1) In relation to the sampling of citrus fruit for the purpose of analysis to establish the presence in or absence from that fruit of biphenyl, 2-hydroxybiphenyl or sodium biphenyl-2-yl oxide and the quantity of any such substance present–\n(a) the power of a sampling officer or of an officer of the Minister’s department under section 78 or 83 respectively of the Act to procure samples shall be exercised in accordance with Part I of Schedule 4;\n(b) the duty of a sampling officer or of an officer of the Minister’s department under section 80 or 83 respectively of and paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 7 to the Act to seal or fasten up each part of the sample shall be performed in accordance with paragraph 1 of Part II of Schedule 4;\n(c) the duty of a sampling officer or of an officer of the Minister’s department under section 80 or 83 respectively of and paragraph 9 of Part I of Schedule 7 to the Act to submit one part of the sample for analysis by the public analyst shall be performed in accordance with paragraph 2 of Part II of Schedule 4.\n(2) The method to be used in analysing citrus fruit for the purpose of establishing–\n(a) the presence in or absence from that fruit of biphenyl, 2-hydroxybiphenyl or sodium bipheny-2-yl oxide shall be as specified in Part I of Schedule 5;\n(b) the quantity of biphenyl in that fruit shall be as specified in Part II of Schedule 5;\n(c) the quantity of 2-hydroxybiphenyl or sodium biphenyl-2-yl oxide in that fruit shall be as specified in Part III of Schedule 5.\n(3) The modified Clevenger-type separator to be used in analysing citrus fruit in accordance with the preceding paragraph and Parts II and III of Schedule 5 for the purpose of establishing the quantity of biphenyl, 2-hydroxybiphenyl or sodium biphenyl-2-yl oxide in that fruit shall conform with the diagram in Schedule 6.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/2486",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Safety Act 1990 (Consequential Modifications) (England and Wales) Order 1990"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/2486",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Safety Act 1990 (Consequential Modifications) (England and Wales) Order 1990"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/533/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:46:33.935266+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."
}