S.I. No. 301/1972 - Health (Colouring Matter 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 (Colouring Matter in Food) (Amendment) Regulations, 1972.

(2) These Regulations and the Health (Colouring Matter in Food) Regulations, 1972 ( S.I. No. 41 of 1972 ), hereinafter referred to as the Principal Regulations, shall be construed as one.

2. Part I of the First Schedule to the Principal Regulations is hereby amended by the addition thereto of the following items:—

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Common name of colouring matter	Scientific name of colouring matter	Colour Index Number	Specification
British Standard		"Specifications for Identity and Purity of Food Additives". (Vol. II Food Colours) issued by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, Rome, 1963		Other specification or compositional requirement.
Brilliant Blue FCF	disodium salt of 4 ([4-(N-ethyl-p-sulpho-benzyl- amino]-phenyl]-(2- sulphoniphenyl- methylene) - [1 -(N - ethyl - N - p- sulphobenyzl -2, 5 - ] cyclohexadiene imine)	42,090	—		Number 36	—
Violet 6 B	monosodium salt of the 4 - [4 - (N - ethyl - p sulphobenzylamino] -phenyl] - [4 (N - ethyl - p sulphonium - benzylamine] - phenyl] - methylene] (N, N - dimethyl - 2, 5 - cyclohexadine imine)	42,640	—		Number 40	—

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

day of December, 1972.

ERSKINE H. CHILDERS,

Minister for Health.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The effect of these Regulations is to amend the Health (Colouring Matter in Food) Regulations, 1972 by the addition of Brilliant Blue FCF and Violet 6B to the colouring matter permitted for use in food under those Regulations.