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Ref : EIC 230/2/12
6 November 2008
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 550/2008
European Union (EU)* : Control on Food Additives other than Colours and Sweeteners
Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 19/2007 of 8 January 2007, the European Commission (the Commission) has recently adopted a Directive to repeal and codify the Commission Directive 96/77/EC laying down the purity criteria on food additives other than colours and sweeteners, as it has been amended several times. Details are set out in the Commission Directive 2008/84/EC (the Directive), which can be accessed through the following link:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:253:0001:0175:EN:PDF
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- For enquiries concerning the contents of this circular, please contact the undersigned at telephone number 2398 5684.
Yours faithfully,
(Chandler CHAN)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry
* The EU includes Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
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