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SECTION 4 (Regulations as to composition of food, etc.)
The Colouring Matter in Food Regulations, 1957. These Regulations
(a) revoke the provisions of the Public Health (Preservatives, &c. in Pood)
Regulations, 1925, as amended, relating to colouring matter in food;
(b) prohibit the sale or importation of food containing any added colouring
matter other than that specified in the First Schedule;
(c) prohibit the sale or importation of certain raw and unprocessed foods
having in or upon them, otherwise than for marking purposes, any added
colouring matter at all, except that citrus fruit may have permitted
colouring if this is suitably indicated in accordance with the Regulations;
(d) prohibit the sale or advertising for sale of any food colouring matter
which is not a permitted colouring matter and impose requirements as to
the labelling of permitted colouring matter and colouring and flavouring
compounds'
(e) provide that where certain food is certified by a public analyst as
containing colouring matter not permitted by the Regulations that food may
be treated for the purposes of Section 9 of the Food and Drugs Act, 1955,
as being unfit for human consumption;
(f) do not apply to food or colouring matter intended for export.
SECTION 6 (False labelling or advertisement of food or drugs). A person
who gives with any food or drug sold by him, or displays with any food or drug
exposed by him for sale, a label, whether attached to or printed on the wrapper
or container or not, which
(a) falsely describes the food or drug, or
(b) is calculated to mislead as to its nature, substance or quality,
is guilty of an offence unless he proves that he did not know, and could not
with reasonable diligence have ascertained, that the label was of such a
character as aforesaid.
SECTION 7 (Regulations as to labelling and description of food). Under
this section the Ministers may make regulations for imposing requirements as
to, and otherwise regulating, the labelling, marking or advertising of food
intended for sale for human consumption, and the description which may be
applied to such food.
The following regulations were made during the year under Sections
4 and 7:-
(1) SECTION 4
(i) The Public Health (Preservatives etc. in Food) (Amendment)
Regulations, 1958. These regulations permit the importation and
sale of citrus fruit which contain not more than 100 parts per
million of diphenyl or not more than 70 parts per million of orthophenylphenol
or mixtures of the two substances within specified
limits; and they provide for the presence of diphenyl and/or orthophenylphenol
in foods containing citrus fruit as an ingredient.
They replace the existing provision whereby citrus fruit is allowed
to contain diphenyl by reason only of it being wrapped outside the
United Kingdom in wrappers containing diphenyl in quantities
equivalent to not more than 40 milligrammes per 100 square inches,
(ii) The Public Health (Preservatives etc. in Food) (Amendment No. 1)
Regulations, 1958 These amending regulations provide for the sale
and importation of apples, pears, pineapples, peaches and melons and
articles of food containing any such fruit, which contain orthophenylphenol
within prescribed limits.