Food Hygiene (Amendment) Regulations, 1984

LN. 52 of 1984

FOOD, DRUGS AND DRINKING WATER ACT, 1972

(ACT NO. XL OF 1972)

Food Hygiene (Amendment) Regulations, 1984

IN exercise of the powers conferred by section 16 Food,

Drugs and Drinking Water Act, 1972. the Minister of Health, on the

advice of the Council of Health, has made the following regulations:—

These regulations may be cited as the Food Hygiene (Amend-

ment) Regulations, 1984, and shall be read and construed as one with

the Food Hygiene Regulations, 1969, hereinafter referred to as “the

principal regulations.

In regulations of the principal regulations, for the words

“other than colouring or flavouring materials” there shall be substituted

the words “other than sugar, colouring or flavouring materials”.

Regulations of the principal regulations, shall be amended as

follows

(a) immediately before the definition of “complete cold mix”

there shall be inserted the following new definition

““carbohydrate” means a substance containing

carbon, hydrogen and oxygen only in which the hydrogen and

oxygen occur in the same proportion as in water;”; and

(b) immediately after the definition of “mixture” there shall

be inserted the following new definition

““sugar”

means

any

soluble

carbohydrate

sweetening

matter.”.

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