GOVERNMENT NOTICE

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

No. R 558

7 May 2004

FOODSTUFFS, COSMETICS AND DISINFECTANTS ACT, 1972 (ACT NO. 54 OF 1972)

REGULATIONS RELATING TO THE USE OF SWEETENERS IN FOODSTUFFS: AMENDMENT

The Minister of Health intends, in terms of section 15(1) of the Foodstuffs, Cosmetics and Disinfectants Act, 1972 (Act No. 54 of 1972), to make the regulations in the Schedule.

Interested persons are invited to submit any substantiated comments or representations on the proposed regulations to the Director-General of Health, Private Bag X828, Pretoria, 0001 (for the attention of the Director: Food Control), within two months of the date of publication of this notice.

SCHEDULE

Definitions

  1. In these regulations, “the regulations” means the regulations published under Government Notice No. R. 3128 of 20 December 1991 as amended by Government Notice No. R. 662 of 28 February 1992, Government Notice No. R. 2064 of 2 December 1994 and Government Notice No. R. 1568 of 28 November 1997.

Amendment of the Annexure to the Regulations

  1. The list of “Non-nutritive sweeteners” is hereby amended by inserting, in between “Calcium Saccharin” and “Saccharin”, the following word:
    “Neotame”.

ME TSHABALALA-MSIMANG
MINISTER OF HEALTH