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1986 Ed.]

Colouring Matter in Food Regulations

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5. (1) No person shall sell or advertise for sale any colouring matter for use in food which is not a permitted colouring matter.

(2) In any proceedings for an offence against paragraph (1) in relation to the publication of an advertisement, it shall be a defence for the defendant to prove that, being a person whose business it is to publish, or arrange for the publication of, advertisements, he received the advertisement for publication in the ordinary course of business.

(3) No person shall sell, consign or deliver for use in food any colouring matter or any colouring and flavouring compound except in a container bearing a label in accordance with the provisions of the Second Schedule.

6. Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of regulation 3, 4 or 5(1) or (3) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $2,000 and to imprison- ment for 3 months, and, where the offence is a continuing offence, to a fine of $50 for each day during which the offence continues.

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7.

Without prejudice to the provisions of any other enact- ment relating to the prosecution of criminal offences, and without prejudice to the powers of the Attorney General in relation to the prosecutions of criminal offences, prosecutions for an offence under any of the provisions of these regulations may-

(a) where the offence was committed in the Urban Council

area, be brought in the name of the Urban Council; or (b) where the offence was committed in the Regional Council area, be brought in the name of the Regional Council.

FIRST SCHEDULE

Permitted colouring matter

PART I-COAL TAR COLOURS

[reg. 2.]

H 3

[Subsidiary]

Restriction on sale or advertisement of colouring matter other than permitted colouring matter.

Second Schedule.

Offences and penalties.

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Name in which proceedings may be brought. L.N. 107/65. L.N. 67/85.

10 of 1986, s. 32(2).

Common

TURA MUNI, STATALA Assa, Tuma Mums NYATALA ALLA, Tuma Mume wanaka sasa, TUNA KUNI NYATAAA AAAA TUNA KUNI NYATALA ALLA TARA Kumi mamaaa aaaa Tama Pa

Name of

Colour

Acid

disodium

Fuchsine

FB

salt

Scientific Name

of 2-amino-5-(4-amino-3-sul-

phophenyl)--(4-imino-3-sulpho-2, 3-cyclohexadien- 1-ylidene)-3, 5-xylenesulphonic acid.

Allura Red disodium salt of 6-hydroxy-5-[(2-methoxy-5-methyl-4-

AC

Amaranth

Black PN

(Brilliant Black BN)

Brilliant

Blue FCF (Brilliant Blue FD & C

No. 1)

sulphophenyl)-azol-2-naphthalene-sulphonic acid.

trisodium salt of 1-(4-sulpho-1-naphthylazo)-2-naphthol-

3: 6-disulphonic acid.

tetrasodium salt of 8-acetamido-2-(7-sulpho-4-p-sulphop- henylazo-1-naphthylazo)-1-naphthol-3: 5-disulphonic

acid.

disodium salt of 4-(4-(N-ethyl-p-sulphobenzylamino)-

phenyl)-(2-sulphoniumphenyl)-methylene}-(1-(N-ethyl-

N-p-sulphobenzyl)-A2, 5-cyclohexadien-imine).

L.N. 146/70.

L.N. 102/76.

L.N. 376/82.

Colour

Index

Number

(1956)

42685

((1975)

16035)

16185

28440

42090