Title and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Extraction Solvents in Food (Amendment) Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 30th June 1995.

Amendment of the Extraction Solvents in Food Regulations 1993

2.  The Extraction Solvents in Food Regulations 1993(2) shall be amended as follows—

(a)in sub-paragraph (e) of paragraph (2) of regulation 4 (sale of food containing extraction solvents and of extraction solvents), for the number “19” there shall be substituted the number “20”;

(b)immediately after item 19 in Part I of Schedule 1 (permitted extraction solvents) there shall be added, in Column 1, the following item—

• “20. Cyclohexane”;

(c)immediately after the entry relating to Propan-1-o1 in Schedule 3 (which specifies maximum residues for extraction solvents in foods containing flavourings prepared from natural flavouring materials by the use of such extraction solvents) there shall be inserted the following entry—

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which apply to Great Britain, come into force on 30th June 1995.

The Regulations amend the Extraction Solvents in Food Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/1658) in implementation of Council Directive 88/344/EEC (OJ No. L157, 24.6.88, p.28) (as amended by Council Directive 92/115/EEC (OJ No. L409, 31.12.92, p.31)) on the approximation of the laws of the Member States on extraction solvents used in the production of foodstuffs and food ingredients, as now further amended by Directive 94/52/EC of the European Parliament and the Council (OJ No. L331, 21.12.94, p.10).

The extraction solvent Cyclohexane is now introduced as an extraction solvent the use of which is permitted in the preparation of flavourings from natural flavouring materials subject to a maximum residue limit of 1mg of Cyclohexane in 1 kg of food. Appropriate amendments are made to Schedules 3 and 1 to, and regulation 4(2)(e) of, the 1993 Regulations (regulation 2).