Food for Particular Nutritional Uses (Addition of Substances for Specific Nutritional Purposes) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2004 (S.S.I. No. 90 of 2004).

These Regulations: (a) allow for a specified period, subject to conditions, the sale of designated PNU foods to which there has been added a substance listed in new Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations (regs. 4(c) and 7 and Schedule 2); (b) add another substance to the list of substances in the category carnitine and taurine which may be added for specific nutritional purposes in designated PNU foods (reg. 5); (c) add six substances to the list of substances in the category amino acids which may be added for specific nutritional purposes in foods for specific medical purposes (reg. 6 and Schedule 1); impose a condition of use in the case of one of these substances (reg. 4(a) and Schedule 1); (d) in implementation of the Annex to Directive 2001/15/EC provide that for amino acids also the sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium salts, as well as their hydrochlorides may be used (reg. 6 and Schedule 1).