Article 1

1. This Directive shall apply to food additives the various categories of which are given in Annex I and which are used or intended to be used as ingredients during the manufacture or preparation of a foodstuff and are still present in the final product, even if in altered form, hereinafter called 'food additives'. 2. For the purposes of this Directive'food additive' means any substance not normally consumed as a food in itself and not normally used as a characteristic ingredient of food whether or not it has nutritive value, the intentional addition of which to food for a technological purpose in the manufacture, processing, preparation, treatment, packaging, transport or storage of such food results, or may be reasonably expected to result, in it or its by-products becoming directly or indirectly a component of such foods. 3. This Directive shall not apply to: processing aids (5): substances used in the protection of plants and plant products in conformity with Community rules relating to plant health; flavourings for use in foodstuffs, falling within the scope of Council Directive 88/388/EEC (6): substances added to foodstuffs as nutrients (for example minerals, trace elements or vitamins).

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-08 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.