Food (Sweeteners) Regulations, 2014.
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Type of law
Regulation
Abstract
These Regulations, made by the Minister of Health under Section 32 of the Food Act No. 26 of 1980, regulate food sweeteners. In particular, they establish that no person shall use any sweetener in or on any food specially prepared for infants or young children. No person shall import, store, distribute, transport, use, sell, expose or advertise for sale any sweetener other than the sweetener specified in Column II of the Schedule I. No person shall use in or on any food more than the maximum usable dose specified in the corresponding entry in Column III of the Schedule I. Every person shall ensure that if any food to which a combination of more than one permitted sweetener are to be an admixture, the total of their percentages do not exceed hundred. For the purpose of this regulation, the quantity of each such sweetener present in such food shall be expressed as a percentage of the maximum quantity of that sweetener appropriate to that food. Where a permitted sweetener or a combination of permitted sweeteners is used in or on any food, there shall be written on the label of the package containing such food.
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Entry into force notes
These Regulations enter into force on 1 July 2015.
Repealed
No
Source language
English
Legislation Amendment
No
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