S.I. No. 303/1972:

HEALTH (ANTIOXIDANT IN FOOD) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1972.

HEALTH (ANTIOXIDANT IN FOOD) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1972.

The Minister for Health in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 5 , 54 and 59 of the Health Act, 1947 (No. 28 of 1947), sub-section (3) of section 38 of the Health Act, 1953 (No. 26 of 1953) and section 6 of the Health Act, 1970 (No. 1 of 1970) after consultation with the Minister for Industry and Commerce and the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries hereby makes the following Regulations :--

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health (Antioxidant in Food) (Amendment) Regulations, 1972.

(2) These Regulations and the Health (Antioxidant in Food) Regulations, 1972 ( S.I. No. 42 of 1972 ), hereinafter referred to as the Principal Regulatitons, shall be construed as one.

2. Sub-article (1) of Article 3 of the Principal Regulatitons is hereby amended by the addition of "sodium acid salt of pyrophosphoric acid, sodium tripolyphosphate, potassium polymetaphosphate, sodium metaphosphate and sodium, potassium and calcium pyrophosphates" after "phosphoric acid" in the definition of antioxidant.

3. The Third Schedule to the Principal Regulatitons is hereby amended by the substitution of "article 12" for "article 13" in paragraph 1 and of "article 13" for "article 14" in paragraph 2 and of the following paragraph for paragraph 3 :--

"Each label and statement prescribed in this Schedule shall be printed distinctly and legibly in dark type upon a light-coloured ground or in light type upon a dark-coloured ground. Every letter of every word shall be of uniform size and colour provided that the initial letter in any word may be larger than the other letters in that word. In the case of a label to which sub-article (1) of Article 13 relates and which is on a container of a quantity of not less than 4 ounces or 4 fluid ounces, as the case may be, the type used shall be not less than one-eighth of an inch in height. The type used for labels on containers, in the case of all other labels prescribed in this Schedule, shall be not less than one-sixteenth of an inch in height."

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health this 8th

day of December, 1972.

ERSKINE H. CHILDERS,

Minister for Health.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These Regulations exclude sodium acid salt of pyrophosphoric acid, sodium tripolyphosphate, potassium polymetaphosphate, sodium metaphosphate and sodium, potassium and calcium pyrophosphates from the definition of antioxidant in the Health (Antioxidant in Food) Regulations, 1972. They also provide for a reduction in the minimum type size which was required under the principal regulations (quoted above) in respect of the declaration of antioxidants in food which must appear on labels of containers of food in which there are permitted antioxidants.