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Ref. : EIC 230/2/12
9 May 2018
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 445/2018
European Union (EU)* : Amendments to Regulations on Food Additives
Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 653/2017 dated 2 August 2017, the European Commission has adopted two Regulations to amend Annex II of Regulation (EU) No. 1333/2008 regarding the use of Thaumatin (E 957) and polyglycerol polyricinoleate (E 476), and one Regulation to amend Annex to Regulation (EU) No. 231/2012 regarding specifications for Polyvinyl alcohol-polyethylene glycol graft-co-polymer (E 1209). Details are set out in Commission Regulations (EU) 2018/677, 2018/682 and 2018/681 respectively, which can be accessed through the following links:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32018R0677&from=EN
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32018R0682&from=EN
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32018R0681&from=EN.
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2.For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact the undersigned at telephone number 2398 5556.
Yours faithfully,
(LAU Lap)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry
* The EU member countries are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, 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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