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19 October 2018

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 933/2018

European Union (EU)* : Amendments to Regulations on Food Additives

Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 445/2018 dated 9 May 2018, the European Commission has adopted five Regulations to amend Annexes of Regulation (EU) No. 1333/2008 and Commission Regulation (EU) No. 231/2012 regarding the followings:

1. use of low-substituted hydroxypropyl cellulose (L-HPC) in food supplements;
2. specifications for certain sorbitan esters (E 491 Sorbitan monostearate, E 492 Sorbitan tristearate and E 495 Sorbitan monopalmitate);
3. Cochineal, Carminic acid, Carmines (E 120);
4. octyl gallate (E 311) and dodecyl gallate (E 312); and
5. food category 17 and the use of food additives in food supplements.

Details are set out in Commission Regulations (EU) 2018/1461, 2018/1462, 2018/1472, 2018/1481 and 2018/1497 respectively, which can be accessed through the following links:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32018R1461&from=EN
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32018R1462&from=EN
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32018R1472&from=EN
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32018R1481&from=EN
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32018R1497&from=EN.

ENQUIRIES

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.