Health (Antioxidant in Food) Regulations, 1973.

These Regulations prohibit the importation, distribution, sale or exposure for sale for use in food of any antioxidant other than a specified or permitted antioxidant as described in the Regulations or any such antioxidant in such a manner as to be likely to lead to its use contrary to the Regulations. They also provide that food being imported, distributed, sold or exposed for sale shall not have in it or on it antioxidant (as defined), except as provided for in the Regulations and prescribe the foods which may contain certain antioxidants and the amounts of such antioxidants that may be contained in them. The Regulations provide that a person shall not import, distribute, sell or expose for sale any food which has in it or on it any added antioxidant which has been diluted or dissolved with a diluent other than water or certain permitted diluents. The marking, labelling or advertising of any food as food intended for babies or infants is prohibited if the food has any permitted antioxidant in or on it. The Regulations also provide for the labelling of specified foods containing antioxidants and of antioxidants. The Regulations provide that where a sample of food has been certified not to comply with the Regulations, an authorized officer may seize, remove and detain such food as being food which is unfit for human consumption and, in certain circumstances, destroy it.