Regulation 283 – Salt (1) Salt, other than crude rock salt, shall be crystalline sodium chloride. (2) On a water-free basis, salt- (a) shall contain not less than 95 per cent of sodium chloride, food additive excluded; (b) may contain not more than- (i) 1.4 per cent of sulphates, calculated as calcium sulphate (CaSO4); (ii) 0.5 per cent of calcium and magnesium chloride (CaCl2 and MgCl2); and (iii) 0.1 per cent of substances other than calcium sulphate, insoluble in cold water; and (c) shall not contain metal contaminant in a proportion greater than that specified in the Fourteenth Schedule. (3) Salt may contain not more than 10 mg/kg of potassium ferrocyanide, sodium ferrocyanide or ferric ammonium citrate or any combination of these as permitted food conditioner. (4) Any reference in these Regulations to salt as an ingredient in food shall be deemed to be also a reference to iodised salt and iodised table salt and to iodised table salt. (5) No person shall import, manufacture for sale, sell, expose or offer for sale, consign or deliver salt for household use and human consumption unless there has been added to it potassium iodide or iodate, or sodium iodide or iodate in a proportion equivalent to not less than 20 mg/kg and not more than 40 mg/kg of iodine. (6) There shall be written in the label on a package containing iodised salt the word “Iodised Salt”. Regulation 284 – Table salt (1) Table salt shall be refined salt. It shall contain not less than 97 per cent of sodium chloride on a water-free basis, food additive excluded and shall not lose more than 1 per cent of its weight on drying at 130°C. (2) Table salt may contain not more than- (a) 0.5 per cent of sulphates, calculated as calcium sulphate (CaSO4); (b) a total of 0.25 per cent of calcium and magnesium chlorides (CaCI2 and MgCI2); (c) 2 per cent of anticaking agent as permitted food conditioner; (d) 0.1 per cent of substances, other than calcium sulphate or permitted anticaking agent, that are insoluble in cold water; and (e) 10 per cent of permitted flavour enhancer. (3) There shall be written in the label on a package containing iodised table salt with permitted flavor enhancer, in uniform lettering of not less than 10 point, the words "iodised table salt with (state the name of the flavour enhancer)". These words shall form the first line of the label and shall be in a position equally prominent with that of any other matter marked on or attached to the package. No other words shall appear in the same line. (4) No person shall import, manufacture for sale, sell, expose or offer for sale, consign or deliver salt for household use and human consumption unless there has been added to it potassium iodide or iodate, or sodium iodide or iodate in a proportion equivalent to not less than 20 mg/kg and not more than 40 mg/kg of iodine. (5) There shall be written in the label on a package containing iodised table salt the word “Iodised Table Salt”. Delete Regulation 285 – Iodised Salt .