Miscellaneous Food Additives (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 (S.R. No. 244 of 1999).

These Regulations implement: (a) European Parliament and Council Directive 98/72/EC amending Directive 95/2/EC on food additives other than colours and sweeteners; and (b) Commission Directive 98/86/EC amending Commission Directive 96/77/EC laying down specific purity criteria on food additives other than colours and sweeteners (regulations 3(b), 5 and 10(a)). The principal provisions of the Regulations add various to permitted or controlled additives, provide for additional uses of certain conditionally permitted additives in various foods, remove the restrictions on the use of permitted additives, increase the restrictions on the use of such additives, and provide for additional uses of certain permitted additives and use of a new additive in infant food.