Health (Mineral Hydrocarbons in Food) Regulations, 1972.

These Regulations: (a) provide, subject to certain exemptions, that the use of any mineral hydrocarbon in the manufacture or preparation of food and the importation, distribution, sale or exposure for sale of any food containing any mineral hydrocarbon is prohibited; (b) provide that the prohibition on the presence of mineral hydrocarbon in food shall not apply to eggs, dried fruit, citrus fruit, sugar confectionery, lubricants or greasing agents, the rind of pressed cheese, chewing gum, or food in which dried fruit, citrus fruit or sugar confectionery is an ingredient; (c) prescribe limits for the presence of mineral hydrocarbon in some of the exempted foods; (d) prescribe specifications for mineral hydrocarbons the use of which is regulated in relation to the permitted exemptions; and (e) provide that where a sample of food has been certified by a public analyst not to comply with the provisions of 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.