Sweeteners in Food (Amendment) Regulations 1997 (S.I. No.814 of 1997).

These Regulations amend the principal Regulations of 1995 in implementing the Directive 96/83/EC of the European Parliament and the Council. They, among other things; (a) amend regulation 2 to include a definition of "relevant food compounds"; (b) insert regulation 5A on compound foods and make consequential amendments; amend regulation to provide that paragraph (4) applies food for infants and young children not in good health; (d) amend regulation 5 so as to exclude for a transitional period acts which would have been in compliance with the regulations before amendment and to exempt, in certain conditions, sweeteners and food from other member countries; (e) incorporate in Schedule 1 permitted sweeteners and food in relation thereto and maximum usable dose for each such sweetener. (2 regulations and a Schedule)