COLOURING MATTER IN FOOD REGULATIONS

COLOURING MATTER IN FOOD REGULATIONS

COLOURING MATTER IN FOOD REGULATIONS

ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

Regulation Page

1. Citation ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... H 2
2. Interpretation ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... H 2
3. Restriction on use of colouring matter other than permitted colouring matter ........H 2
4. Prohibition on the use of colouring matter in the case of certain commodities .......H 2
5. Restriction on sale or advertisement of colouring matter other than permitted colouring
matter ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... H 3
6. Offences and penalties... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... H 3
7. Name in which proceedings may be brought . ... ... ... ... ... ... H 3
First Schedule. Permitted colouring matter
Part I - Coal Tar Colours ........................ ... ... ... H 3

Part II - Other Colours ............. ... ... ... ... ... ... H 5

Second Schedule. Labelling of colouring matter and colouring and flavouring
compounds............................ ... ... ... ... ... ... H 5





COLOURING MATTER IN FOOD REGULATIONS

(Cap. 132, section 55)

[11 November 1960.]

1. These regulations may be cited as the Colouring Matter in
Food Regulations.

2. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise re-
quires-

'permitted colouring matter' means any colouring matter specified
in the First Schedule or any combination of more than one such
colouring matter;

'processed' includes curing by smoking and any treatment or
process resulting in a substantial change in the natural state of
any food, but does not include boning, paring, grinding,
cutting, cleaning or trimming, and the word 'unprocessed'
shall be construed accordingly;

'sell' includes expose or offer for sale or have in possession for sale,
and the word 'sale' shall be construed accordingly;

'vegetable' includes pulses.

3. No food intended for sale for human consumption shall
contain any added colouring matter which is not a permitted
colouring matter, and no person shall sell, consign or deliver, or
import into Hong Kong, any such food which does not comply with
the provisions of this regulation.

4. (1) No meat, game, poultry, fish, fruit or vegetable in a
raw and unprocessed state which is intended for sale for human
consumption shall have in or upon it, otherwise than for the purpose
of marking, any added colouring matter:

Provided that citrus fruit may have in or upon it added
permitted colouring matter if-

(a)the words 'colour added' are marked on the skin of such
fruit in permitted colouring matter; and

(b)such words are distinctly and legibly printed and of such
size as to be conspicuously visible.

(2) No person shall sell, consign or deliver, or import into
Hong Kong, any food referred to in paragraph (1) which does not
comply with the provisions of that paragraph.





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 imprisonment for 3
months and, where the offence is a continuing offence, to a fine of $50
for each day during which the offence continues.



7. Without prejudice to the provisions of any other enactment
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 [reg. 2.]

Permitted colouring matter

PART I - COAL TAR COLOURS

Common Colour
Name Scientific Name Index
Colour Number
(1956)
Acid disodium salt of 2-amino-a5-(4-amino-3-sul- 42685
Fuchsine phophenyl)-ocs-(4-imino-3-sulpho-2, 5-cyclohexadien-
FB 1-ylidene)-3, 5-xylenesulphonic acid.

Allura Red disodium salt of 6-hydroxy-5-[(2-methoxy-5-methyl-4- -
AC sulphophenyl)-azol-2-naphthalene-sulphonic acid. ((1975)
16035)

Amaranth trisodium salt of 1-(4-sulpho-l-naphthylazo)-2-naphthol- 16185
3: 6-disulphonic acid.

Black PN tetrasodium salt of 8-acetamido-2-(7-sulpho-4-p-sulphop- 28440
(Brilliant henylazo- 1 -naphthylazo)- 1 -naphthol- 3: 5-disulphonic
BlackBN) acid.

Brilliant disodium salt of 4-{(4-(N-ethyl-p-sulphobenzylamino)- 42090
Blue FCF phenyl)-(2-sulphoniumphenyl)-methylene}-(1-(N-ethyl-
N-p-sulphobenzyl)-A2, 5-cyclohexadien-imine).

(Brilliant
Blue FD & C
No. 1)





Common Colour
Name of Scientific Name Index
Colour Number
(1956)
Brown FK a mixture consisting essentially of the disodium salt of -
1:3-diamino-4:6-di-(p-sulphophenylazo) benzene and
the sodium salt of 2:4-diamino-5-(p-sulphophenylazo)
toluene.
Carmoisine disodium salt of 2-(4-sulpho- 1 -naphthylazo)- 1 -naphthol- 14720
4-sulphonic acid.
Chocolate the product of coupling diazotised naphthionic acid with -
Brown a mixture (Colour Index No. 1232) of morin and
FB maclurin.
Chocolate disodium salt of 2:4-dihydroxy-3:5-di-(4-sulpho- 1 -nap- 20285
Brown hthylazo) benzyl alcohol.
BT
Chrysoine sodium salt of p-[(2, 4-dihydroxyphenyl)-azo] benzene- 14270
sulphonic acid.
Congo Red disodium salt of 3, Y-[4, 4'-biphenylylene-bis(azo)] bis 22120
[4-amino- I -naphthalene-sulphonic acid].
Eosine sodium salt of 1, 4', 5', 7',-tetrabrom'fluorescein. 45380
Erythrosine disodium or dipotassium salt of 2:4:5:7-tetra-iodo-
45430
(BS) fluorescein.
Fast Red E disodium salt of 1-(4-sulpho- 1 -naphthylazo)-2-naphtbol- 16045
6-sulphonic acid.
Fast Yellow disodium salt of 6-amino-3, 4'-azodibenzene-sulphonic
13015
AB acid.
Green S sodium salt of di-(p-dimethylaminophenyl)-2-hydroxy- 44090
3:6-disulphonaphthylmethanol andydride.
Helio Red 1-[(2-nitro-p-tolyl)azo]-2-naphthol. 12120
RL
Indanthrene 6, 15-dihydro-5, 9, 14, 18-anthrazinetetrone.
69800
Blue RS
Indigotine disodium salt of indigotin-5:5'-disulphonic acid. 73015
(Indigo
Carmine)
Lithol disodium salt of 3-hydroxy-4-[(2-sulpho-p-tolyl)azol-2- 15850
Rubine naphthoic acid.
BK
Metanil sodium salt of m-[(p-anilinophenyl)azol benzene-sul- 13065
Yellow phonic acid.
Methyl a mixture of the hydrochlorides of the more highly
42535
Violet methylated pararosanilines.
Nahthol disodium salt of 4-amino-5-hydroxy-3-[(p-nitro-phenyl) 20470
Blue Black azol-6-(phenylazo)-2, 7-naphthalene disulphonic acid.
Oil Yellow a mixture of 4-phenylazoresoreinol and 4:6-di (phenylazo) 11920
CG resorcinol.
Oil Yellow 3-methyl- 1 -phenyl-4-(2:4-xylylazo)-5-pyrazolone. 12740
XP
OrangcII sodium salt of p-[(2-hydroxy-l-naphthyl)-azol benzene- 15510
sulphonic acid.
Orange G disodium salt of 1-phenylazo-2-naphthol-6:8-disulphonic 16230
acid.
Orange disodium salt of 6-hydroxy-5-[(m-sulphophenyl)azo]-2- 15980
GGN naphthalene sulphonic acid.




Colour
Common
Nameof Scientific Name
Index
Colour
Number

(1956)
Patent calcium salt of (4-
[a-(p-(diethylamino) phenyl)-5-hydroxy- 42051
Blue V 2, 4-
disulphobenzylidenel-2, 5-cyclohexadien- 1 -ylidene)
diethyl-
ammonium hydroxide inner salt.
Ponceau trisodium salt of
1-(4-sulpho- I -naphthylazo)-2-naphthol- 16255
4R 6:8-disulphonic
acid.
Ponceau 6R 7-hydroxy-S-[(4-
sulpho- I -naphthyl)azol-1, 3, 6-naphtha- 16290
lene-trisulphonic
acid.
Quinoline disodium salt of
disulphonic acid of 2-(2 quinolyl)-1, 3- 47005
Yellow indandione.
Red F11 disodium salt of 2-
[4-(1 -hydroxy-4-sulpho-2- 14780
naphthylazo)-3-
sulphophenyll~6-methylberizo-thia-zole.
Red 6B disodium salt of 8-
acetamido-2-p-acetamido-phenylazo-...18055
I -naphthol- 3:6-
disulphonic acid.
Red IOB disodium salt of 8-
amino-2-phenylazo-l-naphthol-3:6-....17200
disulphonic acid.
Red 2G disodium salt of 8-
acetamido-2-phenylazo- 1 -naphthol-..18050
16-disulphonic
acid.
Sudan 111 1-{[p-
(phenylazo) phenyl]-azo}-2-naphthol..26100
Sunset disodium salt of 1-
p-sulphophenylazo-2-naphthol-6- 15985
Yellow sulphonic acid.
FCF
Tartrazine trisodium salt of
5-hydroxy-l-p-sulphophenyl-4-p- 19140
sulphophenylazo-
pyrazole-3-carboxylic acid.

Violet BNP sodium salt of 4:4'-di(dimethylamino)-4'-di-(p-sulpho- -

benzylamino) triphenylmethanol anhydride.

Water sodium salts of triphenylpararosanilinesulphonic acid 42755
Blue 1 and diphenylrosanilinesulphonic acid.

Yellow 2G disodium salt of 1-(2:5-dichloro-4-sulphophenyl)-5- 18965
hydroxy-3-methyl-4-p-sulphophenylazopyrazole.

PART II-OMER COLOURS

1 . Caramel and the colour obtained from cochineal.

2. The following colouring matters of vegetable origin-any colouring matter natural to edible






fruits or vegetables and alkannet, annatto, carotene, chlorophyll, flavine, indigo, orchil, osage
orange, persian berry, safflower, saffron, sandalwood,

turmeric, gardenia augusta, or their pure colouring principles whether isolated from such natural
colours or produced synthetically.

3. Bole or iron oxide, carbon black, titanium dioxide, ultramarine and, solely for the external
colouring of dragees and the decoration of sugar-coated flour confectionery, silver or aluminium in
leaf or powder form.

4. The aluminium or calcium salts (lakes) of any of the scheduled watersoluble colours.

SECOND SCHEDULE [reg. 5(3).]

Labelling ofcolouring mafter and colouring andflavouring compounds

1 . Each container to which regulation 5(3) relates shall bear a label on which is printed in
English lettering and Chinese characters a true statement in the form of one of the following
declarations

In the case of colouring matter

THIS FOOD COLOUR CONFORMS TO THE
LEGAL REQUIREMENTS OF HONG KONG






In the case of colouring and flavouring compounds

THE FOOD COLOUR IN THIS
COMPOUND CONFORMS TO THE
LEGAL REQUIREMENTS OF
HONG KONG



Provided that it shall be sufficient if the labels on containers of quantities of
less than 100 g or 100 mi, as the case may be, bear distinctly and legibly printed
thereon in English lettering and Chinese characters the declaration 'FOOD
COLOUR or 'FOOD COLOUR AND FLAVOURING COMPOUND', as the
case may be, or a declaration to the like effect

2. The declaration shall in each case be distinctly and legibly printed in dark
block type upon a light coloured ground and, except in the case of a declaration in
accordance with the proviso to the preceding paragraph, shall be so printed within
a surrounding line, and no other matter shall be printed within such surrounding
line. The type used for containers of quantities of more than 1 kg or 11, as the
case may be shall be not less than 5 mm in height, and the type used for containers
of quantities of less than 1 kg or 11, as the case may be, but more than 100 g or 100
m/, as the case may be, shall be not less than 3 mm in height.

3. The label shall be securely affixed to or be part of the wrapper or container,
and in every case shall be so placed as to be clearly visible and shall either be part of
any main label or a separate label placed in close proximity thereto.
G.N.A. 72/60. L.N. 107/65. L.N. 146/70. L.N. 102/76. L.N. 89/79. L.N. 376/82. L.N. 67/85. 10 of 1986. G.N.A. 132/60. Citation. Interpretation. First Schedule. Restriction on use of colouring matter other than permitted colouring matter. 10 of 1986, s. 32(2). Prohibition on the use of colouring matter in the case of certain commodities. 10 of 1986, s. 32(2). Restriction on sale or advertisement of colouring matter other than permitted colouring matter. Second Schedule. Offences and penalties. Name in which proceedings may be brought. L.N. 107/65. L.N. 67/85. 10 of 1986, s. 32(2). L.N. 146/70. L.N. 102/76. L.N. 376/82. L.N. 89/79.

G.N.A. 72/60. L.N. 107/65. L.N. 146/70. L.N. 102/76. L.N. 89/79. L.N. 376/82. L.N. 67/85. 10 of 1986. G.N.A. 132/60. Citation. Interpretation. First Schedule. Restriction on use of colouring matter other than permitted colouring matter. 10 of 1986, s. 32(2). Prohibition on the use of colouring matter in the case of certain commodities. 10 of 1986, s. 32(2). Restriction on sale or advertisement of colouring matter other than permitted colouring matter. Second Schedule. Offences and penalties. Name in which proceedings may be brought. L.N. 107/65. L.N. 67/85. 10 of 1986, s. 32(2). L.N. 146/70. L.N. 102/76. L.N. 376/82. L.N. 89/79.

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