diff --git a/packages/block-editor/src/components/rich-text/use-paste-handler.js b/packages/block-editor/src/components/rich-text/use-paste-handler.js
index 71339cc64c342..4b685924e4865 100644
--- a/packages/block-editor/src/components/rich-text/use-paste-handler.js
+++ b/packages/block-editor/src/components/rich-text/use-paste-handler.js
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ import { isURL } from '@wordpress/url';
  * Internal dependencies
  */
 import { filePasteHandler } from './file-paste-handler';
-import { addActiveFormats, isShortcode, normalizeCopiedHtml } from './utils';
+import { addActiveFormats, isShortcode } from './utils';
 import { splitValue } from './split-value';
 
 export function usePasteHandler( props ) {
@@ -69,8 +69,8 @@ export function usePasteHandler( props ) {
 				}
 			}
 
-			// Remove OS-specific metadata appended within copied HTML text.
-			html = normalizeCopiedHtml( html );
+			// Remove Windows-specific metadata appended within copied HTML text.
+			html = removeWindowsFragments( html );
 
 			event.preventDefault();
 
@@ -225,3 +225,17 @@ export function usePasteHandler( props ) {
 		};
 	}, [] );
 }
+
+/**
+ * Normalizes a given string of HTML to remove the Windows specific "Fragment" comments
+ * and any preceeding and trailing whitespace.
+ *
+ * @param {string} html the html to be normalized
+ * @return {string} the normalized html
+ */
+function removeWindowsFragments( html ) {
+	const startReg = new RegExp( '.*<!--StartFragment-->', 's' );
+	const endReg = new RegExp( '<!--EndFragment-->.*', 's' );
+
+	return html.replace( startReg, '' ).replace( endReg, '' );
+}
diff --git a/packages/block-editor/src/components/rich-text/utils.js b/packages/block-editor/src/components/rich-text/utils.js
index d6fb8e00c34c2..f1385eda82e26 100644
--- a/packages/block-editor/src/components/rich-text/utils.js
+++ b/packages/block-editor/src/components/rich-text/utils.js
@@ -17,20 +17,6 @@ export function addActiveFormats( value, activeFormats ) {
 	}
 }
 
-/**
- * Normalizes a given string of HTML to remove the Windows specific "Fragment" comments
- * and any preceeding and trailing whitespace.
- *
- * @param {string} html the html to be normalized
- * @return {string} the normalized html
- */
-export function normalizeCopiedHtml( html ) {
-	const startReg = new RegExp( '.*<!--StartFragment-->', 's' );
-	const endReg = new RegExp( '<!--EndFragment-->.*', 's' );
-
-	return html.replace( startReg, '' ).replace( endReg, '' );
-}
-
 /**
  * Get the multiline tag based on the multiline prop.
  *