{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tryptophan-in-food-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tryptophan-in-food-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2005/479",
  "legislation_title": "The Tryptophan in Food (Scotland) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tryptophan-in-food-scotland-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Exceptions from prohibitions",
  "text": "(1) Food containing tryptophan may be sold or offered for sale–\n(a) by a pharmacist; or\n(b) by a person acting in the course of the activities of a hospital,\nto a person in respect of whom there is an appropriate medical certificate or to someone acting on that person’s behalf, and–\n(i) any person may add tryptophan to food intended for sale in those circumstances; and\n(ii) any person may sell, or offer for sale, food containing tryptophan for the purposes of its sale in those circumstances.\n(2) Regulation 4 shall not apply in respect of–\n(a) laevorotatory tryptophan added to any infant formula or follow-on formula;\n(b) laevorotatory tryptophan added to any processed cereal-based foods or baby foods; or\n(c) laevorotatory tryptophan, its sodium, potassium, calcium or magnesium salts or its hydrochloride, added in compliance with Regulation 953/2009 to any food for a particular nutritional use referred to in the Annex to that Regulation;\nif that added substance complies with the purity criteria specified for that substance in the European Pharmacopoeia.\n(3) Regulation 4 shall not apply in respect of laevorotatory tryptophan added to any food supplement if–\n(a) the laevorotatory tryptophan complies with the purity criteria specified for that substance in the European Pharmacopoeia; and\n(b) the recommended daily dose for that food supplement does not exceed 220 mg.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 5(2)(c) substituted (1.1.2010) by The Food for Particular Nutritional Uses (Addition of Substances for Specific Nutritional Purposes) (Scotland) Regulations 2009 (S.S.I. 2009/427), regs. 1(1), 5(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 11.11.2005, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/479/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:24:04.487116+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."
}