S.L. 449.16 Art. 2Applicability.

(1) These regulations shall apply to food additives the various categories of which are listed in the First Schedule, and which are used, or intended to be used, as ingredients during the manufacture or preparation of food and are still present in the final product, even if in altered form.

(2) For the purposes of these regulations, "food additive" means any substance not normally consumed as a food in itself and not normally used as a characteristic ingredient of food whether or not it has nutritive value, the intentional addition of which to food for a technological purpose in the manufacture, processing, preparation, treatment, packaging, transport or storage of such food results, or may be reasonably expected to result, in it or its by-products becoming directly or indirectly a component of such foods.

(3) These regulations shall not apply to:

(a) processing aids, which means any substance, not consumed as a food ingredient by itself, which is intentionally used in the processing of raw materials, foods or their ingredients to fulfill a certain technological purpose during treatment or processing and which may result in the unintentional but technically unavoidable presence of residues of the substance or its derivatives in the final product, always provided that such residues do not present any health risk and do not have any technological effect on the finished product;

(b) substances used in the protection of plants and plant products in conformity with the European Community rules relating to plant health;

(c) flavourings for use in foodstuffs, falling within the scope of Council Directive 88/388/EEC of the European Community;

(d) substances added to foodstuffs as nutrients.