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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sweeteners-in-food-regulations-1995/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/3123",
  "legislation_title": "The Sweeteners in Food Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sweeteners-in-food-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Sale and use of sweeteners",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 4, no person shall sell any sweetener which is intended—\n(a) for sale to the ultimate consumer, or\n(b) for use in or on any food,\nother than a permitted sweetener.\n(2) No person shall use in or on any food any sweetener other than a permitted sweetener.\n(3) Subject to paragraph (4) below, no person shall use any permitted sweetener in or on any food listed in Column 3 of Schedule 1 other than a permitted sweetener listed in relation to that food in Column 2 of Schedule 1 in an amount not exceeding the maximum usable dose for such permitted sweetener in or on such food as listed in Column 4 of Schedule 1.\n(4) No person shall use any permitted sweetener in or on any food for infants or young children as specified in Council Directive 89/398/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to foodstuffs intended for particular nutritional uses.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L186, 30.6.89, p.27."
    }
  ],
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      "affecting": "wsi/2003/1713",
      "affecting_title": "The Sweeteners in Food (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003"
    },
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    },
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      "type": "omitted",
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      "affecting_title": "The Sweeteners in Food Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2003"
    },
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      "affecting_title": "The Sweeteners in Food Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2003"
    },
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      "affecting_title": "The Sweeteners in Food Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2004"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/3123/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:56:56.694928+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."
}