Health (Solvents in Food) Regulations, 1972.

These Regulations provide that food being imported, distributed, sold or exposed for sale shall not contain solvents, as defined, except as provided for in the Regulations. The Regulations prohibit the importation, distribution, sale or exposure for sale for use in food of any solvents other than a permitted solvent or any permitted solvent in such a manner as to be likely to lead to its use contrary to the Regulations. They prescribe requirements for labelling and advertising of solvents for use in food. 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.