90 tal-1994
Statutory Text (3 Articles)
L.N.900t1994
FOOD, DR UGS AND DRlNKlNC WATER ACT
(C ........ 231 )
Soft Drink!! (Amt:ndment) R'I'IlatloAs. 1994
IN ncrci5c of the pow<:<1 wnfcffl'd by S«Iion 12 of ,he Food ,
Drugs and Drinking Water Act, the Minister for Home Affairs and
Social Development , on the advice of th.e Food Standards Board, has
made 'he following regulations: -
I. These 'CBIII"lioN may be dIed as the Soft Drinks
(Amendment) Regulations, 1994 and shall be read andwnslrued ~one
wi,h Ihe Soft Drinks Regu lations. 1978, hereinafter referred 10 as -,he
principal relulations~ .
For the definition of "permiued artificial sweelener~ in
regulation 2 of the principal regu lations there dLall be subsliluled the
following dcfinilion
"permitted artificial sweelcncr- means &accharin .
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cal!;illm S.lC(harin and sodium S.locharin, aspartame . as well
11$ acesulfame K in nch case subject to the specific and the
general purit y criteria referred to in the Sweeteners in Food
Regulations , 1993;~ .
l . [n paragraph (3) of regulation S of the principal regulations
im mediately after the words ~or aspartame" there shall be added the
words "or acesu[fame K~ .
Schedules I to 4 10 the principal regulations shall be amended
as fo llows
<a) column 6 of Schedule I ~lIall be renumbered column 1;
"d
(b) by tile insertion of a new column 6 in ellCh of the
Schedules. with the heading ~ Maximum quantity of acesulfame K
permitted in the beverage as oonsumcd" and in respect of eacll item
In those Schedules there sllall be insertcd the words "300milligrams
per litre or 13.62 grams per45.41ilres" •
S.
Schedule S 10 the principal regulmions shall be deleted.
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