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This is a complex area, and different countries have developed various ways of looking at the subject. Phytone can offer advice world-wide on the subject, please contact a member of our Technical Services Team

One of the prime considerations is the possible health risk to the end consumer. Manufacturers have come a long way from the days when lead and arsenic salts were used to provide colour.

Colour should not be added to foods to mislead the consumer.
Legitimate reasons for adding colours are indicated below:

  • To reinforce colour already present.
  • To restore colour to original appearance, where processing may have affected colour
  • To make food more visually attractive.

In the EU the regulations were last revised in the 1990s and came into effect on 1st January 1996.These are covered by the European Parliament and Council Directive 94/36/EC of 30th June 1994 on colours for use in foodstuffs. The use of colours in the UK is covered by The Colours in Food Regulations 1995 (Statutory Instrument 1995 No 3124)

Purity criteria for each colour is covered by Commission Directive 95/45/EC 26 July 1995, laying down specific purity criteria concerning colour for use in foodstuffs.

 


 

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