Regulation 3 Prohibition of sale of food containing mineral oil
3 Except as provided in regulation 4-
  1. no person shall use or permit to be used any mineral oil in the composition or preparation of any article of food intended for sale for human consumption;
  2. no person shall sell or offer, expose, possess or manufacture for sale for human consumption any article of food containing any mineral oil.

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Regulation 4 Exemption from prohibition
4(1) Regulation 3 shall not apply where-
    1. the amount of mineral oil contained in any article of food does not exceed 0.2 parts by weight of mineral oil per 100 parts by weight of the article of food; and
    2. the presence of mineral oil in any article of food is due not to its inclusion as an ingredient in the article of food but to its use as a lubricant or greasing agent on some surface with which the article of food has necessarily to come into contact in the course of its preparation; or
  2. in the case of any chewing gum product─
    1. the amount of any hydrocarbon wax added to the product does not exceed the amount reasonably required to accomplish its intended physical, nutritional or other technical effect in the product;
    2. the quantity of any hydrocarbon wax that has or may have become a component of the product as a result of its use in the manufacturing, processing, or packaging of the product, and that is not intended to accomplish any physical or other technical effect in the product itself, has been reduced to the extent reasonably possible; and
    3. any hydrocarbon wax contained in the product is of appropriate food grade and was prepared and handled as a food ingredient.
4(2) In this regulation, "chewing gum product" (香口膠產品) means chewing gum and other products of a like nature and use.

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Note : Please browse https://www.elegislation.gov.hk/?_lang=en for details of the food law in Chapter 132.