Sweeteners for use in Foodstuffs (Amendment) Regulations, 2008

L.N. 85 of 2008

FOOD SAFETY ACT

(CAP. 449)

Sweeteners for use in Foodstuffs (Amendment) Regulations, 2008

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 10 of the Food Safety

Act, the Minister of Health, the Elderly and Community Care has made

the following regulations>-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Sweeteners for use in Citation and coming

into force.

Foodstuffs (Amendment) Regulations, 2008, and they shall be read and

construed as one with the Sweeteners for use in Foodstuffs Regulations, L.N. 30 of 2005.

2005 hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”.

(2) These regulations shall come into force on the 15 th

February, 2008.

(1) Regulation 3 hereof implements the provisions of Scope.

Commission Directive 2006#128#EC of the 8 th December, 2006.

(2) Regulation 4 hereof implements the provisions of

Directive 2006#52#EC of the European Parliament and of the Council

amending Directive 95#2#EC on food additives other than colours and

sweeteners and Directive 94#35#EC on sweeteners for use in foodstuffs,

of the 5 th July, 2006>

Provided that as from the 15 th February, 2008, trade in and

use of products complying with these regulations shall be permitted

and trade in and use products which do not comply with these regulations

shall be prohibited< however products placed on the market or labelled

before the 15 th August 2008 which do not comply with these regulations

may be marketed until stocks are exhausted.

In regulation 1.3(b) of the principal regulations, for the words Amends regulation

1 of the principal

“and 2001#52#EC” there shall be substituted the words “2001#52#EC regulations.

and 2006#128#EC”.

Amends the

In the Schedule to the principal regulations immediately after

Schedule to the

items E 420 to E 967, there shall be added in the first and second columns

principal

regulations.

thereof respectively the item “E 968” and the word “Erythritol”.

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