Colouring matter in food Regulations.

These Regulations, as regards the territory of Gibraltar, are setting the food safety standards as regards the correct, safe and controlled and use and prohibition of use of colouring matters or substances in foodstuff.
This text is divided into 12 different sections as follows: Title and Commencement; Interpretation; Exemptions; Sale of food containing colouring matter; Prohibition of the use of added colouring matter; Inorganic and organic impurity limits for colouring matters and diluents; Sale, advertisement and labelling of colouring matter; Condemnation of food; Penalties and enforcement; Defences; Application of various sections of the Act; (section 12 was cancelled in amending publicatons).
The provisions of these Regulations shall not apply to any food having any colouring matter in it or on it, to any colouring matter or to any diluent combined with any colouring matter or colouring matters which, in each case, is intended at the time of sale, consignment, delivery or importation, as the case may be for exportation to any place outside Gibraltar; or for the purpose of scientific laboratory testing, if the container of any such food, colouring matter or diluent bears a label stating clearly that such food, colouring matter or diluent, as the case may be, is sold, consigned, delivered or imported, as the case may be, only for such purpose.
Schedules 1-4 are part of this publication (list of permitted colouring matters, also for certain food only, see Schedule 3; specific purity criteria applicable to permitted colouring matters; list of permitted dilluents other than permitted solvents).