S.I. No. 301/1972 - Health (Colouring Matter in Food) (Amendment) Regulations, 1972.

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health (Colouring Matter in Food) (Amendment) Regulations, 1972.

(2) These Regulations and the Health (Colouring Matter in Food) Regulations, 1972 (

S.I. No. 41 of 1972

), hereinafter referred to as the Principal Regulations, shall be construed as one.

2. Part I of the First Schedule to the Principal Regulations is hereby amended by the addition thereto of the following items:—

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Column 4

Common name of colouring matter

Scientific name of colouring matter

Colour Index Number

Specification

British Standard

"Specifications for Identity and Purity of Food Additives". (Vol. II Food Colours) issued by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, Rome, 1963

Other specification or compositional requirement.

Brilliant Blue FCF

disodium salt of 4 ([4-(N-ethyl-p-sulpho-benzyl- amino]-phenyl]-(2- sulphoniphenyl- methylene) - [1 -(N - ethyl - N - p- sulphobenyzl -2, 5 - ] cyclohexadiene imine)

42,090

—

Number 36

—

Violet 6 B

monosodium salt of the 4 - [4 - (N - ethyl - p sulphobenzylamino] -phenyl] - [4 (N - ethyl - p sulphonium - benzylamine] - phenyl] - methylene] (N, N - dimethyl - 2, 5 - cyclohexadine imine)

42,640

—

Number 40

—

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health this 8th

day of December, 1972.

ERSKINE H. CHILDERS,

Minister for Health.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The effect of these Regulations is to amend the Health (Colouring Matter in Food) Regulations, 1972 by the addition of Brilliant Blue FCF and Violet 6B to the colouring matter permitted for use in food under those Regulations.

The Minister for Health in exercise of the powers conferred on him by

sections 5

,

54

and

59

of the

Health Act, 1947

(No. 28 of 1947), sub-section (3) of

section 38

of the

Health Act, 1953

(No. 26 of 1953) and

section 6

of the

Health Act, 1970

(No. 1 of 1970) after consultation with the Minister for Industry and Commerce and the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries hereby makes the following Regulations : —