The Food Additives (Wales) Regulations 2009

Made: 21 December 2009

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales: 23 December 2009

Coming into force: 20 January 2010

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Title, application and commencement

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Interpretation

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Use of colours in or on food

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Health marking etc. of certain meat and meat products

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Use of colours on eggshells

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Sale of colours and food containing colours

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Transitional provision

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Use of miscellaneous additives

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Sale of food additives and food containing miscellaneous additives

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Transitional provisions and exemption

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Placing on the market and use of sweeteners

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Sale of food containing sweeteners

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Transitional provision

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Offences and penalties

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Execution and enforcement

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Application of various sections of the Food Safety Act 1990

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Condemnation of food

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Consequential amendments

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Amendment of the Specified Sugar Products (Wales) Regulations 2003

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Revocations

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THE SCHEDULE — SPECIFIED REGULATION 1333/2008 PROVISIONS

Provision of Regulation 1333/2008	Subject — matter
Article 4.1 (as read with Articles 11.3 and 4, 12, 13.2, 15, 16 and 18.1(a), 2 and 3)	Requirement that only food additives included in the list in Annex II to Regulation 1333/2008 be placed on the market as such and that they be used in accordance with any conditions specified in that Annex.
Article 4.2 (as read with Articles 12, 13.2 and 18.3)	Requirement that only food additives included in the list in Annex III to Regulation 1333/2008 may be used in food additives, food enzymes, food flavourings and nutrients and under the conditions of use specified in that Annex.
Article 4.5	Requirement that food additives comply with the specifications referred to in Article 14 of Regulation 1333/2008.
Article 5	Prohibition on placing on the market of food additives or food containing food additives if the use of the food additive does not comply with Regulation 1333/2008.
Article 11.2	Requirement to use food additives in accordance with the quantum satis principle where no maximum numerical level fixed for the additive concerned.
Article 15	Prohibition on use of food additives in unprocessed foods except where provided in Annex II to Regulation 1333/2008.
Article 16	Prohibition on use of food additives in foods for infants and young children (including dietary foods for infants and young children for special medical purposes)except where provided in Annex II to Regulation 1333/2008.
Article 17	Requirement to use only food colours listed in Annex II to Regulation 1333/2008 for the purpose of health marking meat or meat products, decorative colouring of eggshells or stamping of eggshells.
Article 18.1(b) (as read with Article 18.2)	Requirement that food additives be present in food to which a food additive, food enzyme or food flavouring has been added, only if the additive is permitted in the additive, enzyme or flavouring under Regulation 1333/2008, has been carried over to the food via the additive, enzyme or flavouring and has no technological function in the final food.
Article 18.1(c) (as read with Article 18.2)	Requirement that food additives be present in foods to be used solely in the preparation of a compound food only if the compound food complies with Regulation 1333/2008.
Article 18.4	Requirement that food additives be used as sweeteners in compound foods with no added sugars, energy reduced compound foods with no added sugars, energy reduced compound foods, compound dietary foods intended for low calorie diets, non cariogenic compound foods and compound foods with an increased shelf life only if the sweetener is permitted in any of the ingredients of the compound food.
Article 21.1	Requirement that food additives not intended for sale to the final consumer be labelled, in accordance with Article 22 of Regulation 1333/2008, visibly, clearly legibly and indelibly and in a language easily understandable to purchasers.
Article 22.1 (as read with Article 22.4 and 5 and the second paragraph of Article 31)	Requirement that food additives not intended for sale to the final consumer be sold only if their packaging or containers bear specified information.
Article 22.2 (as read with Article 22.4 and 5 and the second paragraph of Article 31)	Requirement that food additives mixed with each other and/or with other food ingredients be sold only if their packaging or containers bear a list of ingredients in descending order of their percentage weight of the total.
Article 22.3 (as read with Article 22.4 and 5 and the second paragraph of Article 31)	Requirement that, where substances (including food additives or other food ingredients) are added to food additives to facilitate their storage, sale, standardisation or dissolution, their packaging or containers bear a list of all such substances in descending order of their percentage by weight of the total.
Article 23.1 (as read with Article 23.2 and 5)	Prohibition on marketing of food additives sold singly or mixed with each other and/or other food ingredients and intended for sale to the final consumer unless their packaging contains specified information.
Article 23.3 (as read with Article 23.5)	Requirement that the labelling of table-top sweeteners containing polyols and/or aspartame and/or aspartame — acesulfame salt bear specified warnings.
Article 26.1	Requirement that producers and users of food additives inform the Commission immediately of any new scientific or technical information which might affect the assessment of the safety of the food additive concerned.
Article 26.2	Requirement that producers and users of food additives, at the request of the Commission, inform it of the actual use of the food additive concerned.

Signed

Gwenda Thomas — Deputy Minister for Social Services under authority of the Minister for Health and Social Services, one of the Welsh Ministers — 2009-12-21

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1990 p.16. Trosglwyddwyd swyddogaethau'r Ysgrifennydd Gwladol o dan Ddeddf Diogelwch Bwyd 1990 i Weinidogion Cymru yn rhinwedd paragraff 30 o Ddeddf lywodraeth Cymru 2006 (p.32) ac Atodlen 11 i'r Ddeddf honno.

[^f00002]: 1972 p.68.

[^f00003]: OJ Rhif L31, 1.2.2002, t.1. Diwygiwyd y Rheoliad hwnnw ddiwethaf gan Reoliad (EC) Rhif L596/2009 Senedd Ewrop a'r Cyngor sy'n addasu nifer o offerynnau, yn ddarostyngedig i'r weithdrefn y cyfeirir ati yn Erthygl 251 o'r Cytuniad i Benderfyniad y Cyngor 1999/468/EC mewn perthynas â'r weithdrefn reoleiddiol gyda chraffu: Addasu'r weithdrefn reoleiddiol gyda chraffu — Rhan Pedwar (OJ Rhif L188, 18.7.2009, t.14).

[^f00004]: OJ Rhif L184, 15.7.1988, t.61, fel y'i diwygiwyd ddiwethaf gan Reoliad (EC) Rhif 1882/2003 Senedd Ewrop a'r Cyngor sy'n addasu i Benderfyniad y Cyngor 1999/468/EC y darpariaethau yngl n â phwyllgorau sy'n cynorthwyo'r Comisiwn i arfer ei bwerau gweithredu a bennir mewn offerynnau sy'n ddarostyngedig i'r weithdrefn y cyfeirir ati yn Erthygl 251 o'r Cytuniad EC (OJ Rhif 284, 31.10.2003, t.1).

[^f00005]: OJ Rhif L237, 10.9.1994, t.3, fel y'i diwygiwyd ddiwethaf gan Gyfarwyddeb 2006/52/EC Senedd Ewrop a'r Cyngor sy'n diwygio Cyfarwyddeb 95/2/EC ar ychwanegion bwyd ac eithrio lliwiau a melysyddion a Cyfarwyddeb 94/35/EC ar felysyddion i'w defnyddio mewn bwydydd. (OJ Rhif L204, 20.7.2006, t.10).

[^f00006]: OJ Rhif L237, 10.9.1994, t.13.

[^f00007]: OJ Rhif L61, 18.3.1995, t.1, fel y'i darllenir gyda'r Corigendwm yn OJ Rhif L248, 14.10.1995, t.60 ac a ddiwygiwyd ddiwethaf gan Gyfarwyddeb 2006/52/EC.

[^f00008]: OJ Rhif L158, 18.6.2008, t.1.

[^f00009]: OJ Rhif L253, 20.9.2008, t.1. a ddiwygiwyd gan Gyfarwyddeb y Comisiwn 2009/10/EC sy'n diwygio Cyfarwyddeb 2008/84/EC sy'n pennu meini prawf purdeb penodol ar gyfer ychwanegion bwyd ac eithrio lliwiau a melysyddion (OJ Rhif L44, 14.2.2009, t.62).

[^f00010]: OJ Rhif L6, 10.1.2009, t.20.

[^f00011]: OJ Rhif L124, 20.05.2009, t.21.

[^f00012]: OJ Rhif L354, 31.12.2008, t.16.

[^f00013]: OJ Rhif L330, 5.12.1998, t.32.

[^f00014]: 1984 p.22; disodlwyd adran 7(3)(d) gan baragraff 27 o Atodlen 3 i Ddeddf Diogelwch Bwyd 1990 (1990 p.16).

[^f00015]: 193 p.49; darllener adran 6 ar y cyd â pharagraff 1 o Atodlen 3 i Ddeddf Diogelwch Bwyd 1990.

[^f00016]: 1985 p.51; diwygiwyd paragraff 15(6) gan baragraff 31(b) o Atodlen 3 i Ddeddf Diogelwch Bwyd 1990.

[^f00017]: OJ Rhif L139, 30.4.2004, t.55. Mae testun diwygiedig Rheoliad (EC) Rhif 853/2004 bellach wedi ei gynnwys mewn Corigendwm (OJ Rhif L226, 25.6.2004, t.22) y dylid ei ddarllen ar y cyd â Chorigendwm pellach (OJ Rhif L204, 4.8.2007, t.2 ). Diwygiwyd Rheoliad (EC) Rhif 853/2004 ddiwethaf gan Reoliad y Comisiwn (EC) Rhif 1020/2008 sy'n diwygio Atodiadau II a III i Rheoliad (EC) Rhif 853/2004 Senedd Ewrop a'r Cyngor sy'n pennu rheolau hylendid penodol ar gyfer bwyd sy'n tarddu o anifeiliaid a Rheoliad (EC) Rhif 207 /2005 ynglŷn â marcio ar gyfer adnabod, llaeth amrwd a chynhyrchion llaeth, wyau a chynhyrchion wyau, a chynhyrchion pysgodfeydd penodol (OJ Rhif L277, 18.10.2008, t.8).

[^f00018]: OJ Rhif L299,16.11.2007, t.1, fel y'i diwygiwyd ddiwethaf gan Reoliad y Comisiwn (EC) Rhif 183/2009 sy'n diwygio Atodiad VI i Reoliad y Cyngor (EC) Rhif 1234/2007 ynglŷn ag addasu'r cwotâu ar gyfer y flwyddyn farchnata 2009/10 yn y sector siwgr (OJ Rhif L63, 7.3.2009, t.9).

[^f00019]: O.S. 1995/3124 fel y'i diwygiwyd.

[^f00020]: O.S. 2005/1628 (Cy.122).

[^f00021]: O.S. 1995/3187 fel y'i diwygiwyd.

[^f00022]: O.S. 2005/259 (Cy.25).

[^f00023]: O.S. 2005/1311 (Cy.93).

[^f00024]: O.S. 2008/138 (Cy.20).

[^f00025]: O.S. 1995/3123 fel y'i diwygiwyd.

[^f00026]: O.S. 2005/1156 (Cy.73).

[^f00027]: Diwygiwyd adran 21 gan O.S. 2004/3279.

[^f00028]: Diwygir adran 35(1) gan Ddeddf Cyfiawnder Troseddol 2003 (2003 p.44), Atodlen 26, para 42, o ddyddiad sydd i'w bennu.

[^f00029]: Diwygiwyd adran 35(3) gan O.S. 2004/3279.

[^f00030]: Mewnosodwyd adran 36A gan Ddeddf 1999, Atodlen 5, paragraff 14.

[^f00031]: O.S. 1966/1073 fel y'i diwygiwyd.

[^f00032]: O.S. 2003/3041 (Cy.286).

[^f00033]: O.S. 2003/3053 (Cy.291) fel y'i diwygiwyd.

[^f00034]: OJ Rhif L404, 30.12.2006, t.26,fel y'i diwygiwyd gan Reoliad (EC) Rhif 108/2008 Senedd Ewrop a'r Cyngor sy'n diwygio Rheoliad (EC) Rhif 1925/2006 ar ychwanegu fitaminau,mwynau a sylweddau penodol eraill at fwydydd (OJ Rhif L39, 13.2.2008, t.11).

[^f00035]: O.S. 2004/1396 (Cy.141) fel y'i diwygiwyd.

[^f00036]: OJ Rhif L354, 31.12.2008, t.34.

[^f00037]: O.S. 2004/553 (Cy.56).

[^f00038]: O.S. 2003/3047 (Cy.290).

[^f00039]: OJ Rhif L141, 6.6.2009, t.3.

[^f00040]: O.S. 1992/1978 fel y'i diwygiwyd.

Editorial notes

[^key-f640772818c937969fb63bcb27a1af28]: Regulations revoked (26.7.2018) by The Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) (Wales) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/806), reg. 1(3), Sch. 3

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Darpariaeth drosiannol

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Darpariaeth drosiannol

Tramgwyddau a chosbau

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