food additive

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1. 20/01/2009 – 20/07/2010 Article 3, Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 (Additives) Scope: Whole act

   2. For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions shall also apply:

   ‘food additive’ shall mean any substance not normally consumed as a food in itself and not normally used as a characteristic ingredient of food, whether or not it has nutritive value, the intentional addition of which to food for a technological purpose in the manufacture, processing, preparation, treatment, packaging, transport or storage of such food results, or may be reasonably expected to result, in it or its by-products becoming directly or indirectly a component of such foods;The following are not considered to be food additives:(i)monosaccharides, disaccharides or oligosaccharides and foods containing these substances used for their sweetening properties;(ii)foods, whether dried or in concentrated form, including flavourings incorporated during the manufacturing of compound foods, because of their aromatic, sapid or nutritive properties together with a secondary colouring effect;(iii)substances used in covering or coating materials, which do not form part of foods and are not intended to be consumed together with those foods;(iv)products containing pectin and derived from dried apple pomace or peel of citrus fruits or quinces, or from a mixture of them, by the action of dilute acid followed by partial neutralisation with sodium or potassium salts (liquid pectin);(v)chewing gum bases;(vi)white or yellow dextrin, roasted or dextrinated starch, starch modified by acid or alkali treatment, bleached starch, physically modified starch and starch treated by amylolitic enzymes;(vii)ammonium chloride;(viii)blood plasma, edible gelatin, protein hydrolysates and their salts, milk protein and gluten;(ix)amino acids and their salts other than glutamic acid, glycine, cysteine and cystine and their salts having no technological function;(x)caseinates and casein;(xi)inulin;

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