| (Cap 132, sections 55 and 143) [2 February 1973] (L.N. 20 of 1973) Cap 132BD reg 1 Citation These regulations may be cited as the Preservatives in Food Regulations. Cap 132BD reg 2 Interpretation (1) In these regulations unless the context otherwise requires- "air transhipment cargo" (航空转运货物) has the meaning assigned to it in section 2 of the Import and Export Ordinance (Cap 60); (29 of 2000 s. 5) "air transit cargo" (航空过境货物) means any article in transit that is both imported and consigned for export in an aircraft; (29 of 2000 s. 5) "antioxidant" (抗氧化剂) means any substance which delays, retards or prevents the development in food of rancidity or other flavour deterioration due to oxidation but does not include lecithin, ascorbic acid, or its salts or esters, tocopherols, citric acid, tartaric acid, phosphoric acid or any preservative the use of which is permitted by these regulations; "article in transit" (过境物品) has the meaning assigned to it in section 2 of the Import and Export Ordinance (Cap 60); (29 of 2000 s. 5) "canned food" (罐头食物) means food in a hermetically sealed container which has been sufficiently heat processed to destroy any Clostridium Botulinum in that food or container or which has a pH of less than 4.5; "cargo transhipment area of Hong Kong International Airport" (机场货物转运区) has the meaning assigned to it in section 2 of the Import and Export Ordinance (Cap 60); (29 of 2000 s. 5) "catering business" (饮食供应业) includes the business or undertaking of an inn, public house, hotel, restaurant, cafe, tea-shop, buffet, coffee-stall or any place of refreshment open to the public, or of a club, boarding house, apartment house, refreshment contractor, school feeding centre, staff dining room or canteen; "compounded food" (合成食物) means food containing 2 or more ingredients; "container" (容器) includes any form of packaging of food for sale as a single item, whether by way of wholly or partly enclosing the food or by way of attaching the food to some other article, and in particular includes a wrapper or confining band; "dairy product" (乳 产品) means any butter (other than butter for manufacturing purposes), milk, cream, condensed milk, evaporated milk, dried milk or cheese; "deterioration" (变坏) in relation to food, means deterioration due to the action of bacteria, yeasts or moulds; "flavouring emulsion" (调味乳状液) means an emulsion of the selected flavouring in a suitable liquid; "flavouring syrup" (调味糖浆) means a solution of carbohydrate sweetening matter containing sufficient distinctive flavouring to provide, after dilution with milk or water, a drink with that distinctive flavour; "flour confectionery" (面粉制饼点) includes cakes, bun loaves, cholas bread, pastry (cooked or uncooked) and ready-made puddings (other than canned puddings and Christmas puddings) but does not include biscuits or any product containing a filling that has as an ingredient any meat or fish; "fruit juice" (果汁) means the clean, sound undiluted juice of the fruit or fruits from which it is obtained; "importer" (进口商) includes any person who, whether as owner, consignee, agent or broker, is in possession of or entitled to the custody or control of any article of food brought from a place outside Hong Kong; (10 of 1986 s. 32(2)) "jam" (果酱) includes fruit jelly prepared in the way in which jam is prepared, marmalade and jelly marmalade; "permitted antioxidant" (准许抗氧化剂) means any antioxidant specified in Column 2 of Part II of the First Schedule; "permitted colouring matter" (准许染色料) means any colouring matter inasmuch as its use is permitted by the Colouring Matter in Food Regulations (Cap 132 sub. leg. H); "permitted preservative" (准许防腐剂) means any preservative specified in Column 2 of Part I of the First Schedule or, subject to the provisions of paragraph (3) of this regulation, a preservative specified in Column 2 of Part III of the First Schedule; "pre-packed" (预先包装) means made up in advance ready for retail sale in or on a container; and on any premises where food of any description is so made up, or is kept or stored for sale after being so made up, any food of that description found made up in or on a container shall be deemed to be pre-packed unless the contrary is proved; "preparation" (配制) in relation to food, includes manufacture and any form of treatment; and "preparation for sale" (配制以供出售) includes packaging; "preservative" (防腐剂) means any substance which is capable of inhibiting, retarding or arresting the process of fermentation, acidification or other deterioration of food or of masking any of the evidence of putrefaction but does not include- (a) any permitted antioxidant; (b) any permitted colouring matter; (c) common salt (sodium chloride); (d) lecithin, sugars or tocopherols; (e) nicotinic acid or its amide; |
