Hong Kong Regulations

COLOURING MATTER IN FOOD REGULATIONS - REGULATION 4

Prohibition on the use of colouring matter in the case of certain commodities

(1) No meat, game, poultry, fish, fruit or vegetable in a raw and unprocessed
state which is intended for sale for human consumption shall have in or upon
it, otherwise than for the purpose of marking, any added colouring matter:
Provided that citrus fruit may have in or upon it added permitted 
colouring matter if-

        (a)	the words "colour added" are marked on the skin of such fruit 
in permitted colouring matter; and

   (b)  such words are distinctly and legibly printed and of such size as to
        be conspicuously visible.

(2) No person shall sell, consign or deliver, or import into Hong Kong, any
food referred to in paragraph (1) which does not comply with the provisions of
that paragraph. (10 of 1986 s. 32(2))