Singapore legislation
Regulation 20
Regulation 20
Colouring matter
Subregulation 1
In these Regulations, “colouring matter” means any substance that, when added or applied to food, is capable of imparting colour to that food.
Subregulation 2
No person shall import, sell, advertise, manufacture, consign or deliver —
any article of food intended for human consumption which contains any added colouring matter other than a permitted colouring matter as listed in the Fifth Schedule;
any colouring matter for use in food intended for human consumption other than a permitted colouring matter, as listed in the Fifth Schedule; or
any permitted synthetic organic colour, as listed in Part I of the Fifth Schedule which contains alpha naphthylamine, beta-naphthylamine, benzidine, paraaminodiphenyl (xenylamine) or their derivatives and the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
Subregulation 3
No person shall sell, expose or offer for sale, consign, deliver or import any meat, poultry, fish, fruit or vegetable in the raw or unprocessed state, which has in it or on it (otherwise than for the purpose of marking) any added colouring matter except that the husk of any nut may have on it added permitted colouring matter.