B

BEESWAX, WHITE AND YELLOW

Beeswax, White and Yellow

INS: 901

Function: Bulking Agent, Glazing Agent, Release Agent, Stabilizer

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
04.1.1.2	Surface-treated fresh fruit	GMP		6
04.2.1.2	Surface-treated fresh vegetables, and nuts and seeds	GMP	Note 79	6
14.1.4	Water-based flavoured drinks, including “sport” or “electrolyte” drinks and particulated drinks	200 mg/kg		6

BEET RED

Beet Red

INS: 162

Function: Colour

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.2.2	Renneted milk	GMP		6
01.4.1	Pasteurized cream	GMP		6
01.4.2	Sterilized, UHT, whipping or whipped, and reduced fat creams	GMP		6
02.1	Fats and oils essentially free from water	GMP		6
02.2.1.1	Butter and concentrated butter	GMP	Note 52	6
04.1.1.2	Surface-treated fresh fruit	GMP	Note 16	6
04.2.1.2	Surface-treated fresh vegetables, and nuts and seeds	GMP	Note 16	6
06.4.2	Pre-cooked or dried pastas and noodles and like products	GMP	Note 54	6
08.1.1	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, whole pieces or cuts	GMP	Note 16	6
08.1.2	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, comminuted	1000 mg/kg		6
09.1.1	Fresh fish	GMP	Note 50	6
09.1.2	Fresh mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 16	6
09.2.1	Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		6
09.2.2	Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 16	6
09.2.3	Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 16	6
09.2.4.1	Cooked fish and fish products	GMP		6
09.2.4.2	Cooked mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		6
09.2.4.3	Fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 16	6
09.2.5	Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 22	6
10.1	Fresh eggs	GMP	Notes 3 & 4	6
13.1	Infant formulae and follow -on formulae	GMP		6
13.2	Weaning foods for infants and growing children	GMP		6
14.1.2.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit juice	GMP		6
14.1.3.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit nectar	GMP		6
14.2.3	Wines	GMP		6

BENZOATES

Benzoic Acid	INS: 210
Potassium Benzoate	INS: 212
Sodium Benzoate	INS: 211
Calcium Benzoate	INS: 213

Function: Preservative

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
04.1.2.2	Dried fruit	800 mg/kg	Note 13	6
04.1.2.4	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit	800 mg/kg	Note 13	6
04.2.2.2	Dried vegetables, seaweeds, and nuts and seeds	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
04.2.2.4	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) or retort pouch vegetables	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
05.1.1	Cocoa mixes (powders and syrups)	1500 mg/kg	Note 13	6
05.1.2	Cocoa-based spreads, including fillings	1500 mg/kg	Note 13	6
05.1.4	Imitation chocolate, chocolate substitue products	1500 mg/kg	Note 13	6
05.2	Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougat, etc. other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4	1500 mg/kg	Note 13	6
05.3	Chewing gum	1500 mg/kg	Note 13	6
05.4	Decorations (e.g., for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) and sweet sauces	1500 mg/kg	Note 13	6
06.4.2	Pre-cooked or dried pastas and noodles and like products	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
06.5	Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g., rice pudding, tapioca pudding)	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
07.0	Bakery wares	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
08.2.1.2	Cured (including salted) and dried non-heat treated processed meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or cuts	GMP	Notes 3 & 13	6
08.3.1.2	Cured (including salted) and dried non-heat treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	750 mg/kg	Note 13	6
09.2.4.2	Cooked mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	2000 mg/kg	Notes 13 & 82	6
09.2.5	Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	200 mg/kg	Note 13	6
09.3.1	Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms, marinated and/or in jelly	2000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
09.3.2	Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms, pickled and/or in brine	2000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
09.3.3	Salmon substitutes, caviar, and other fish roe products	2500 mg/kg	Note 13	6
09.3.4	Semi-preserved fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms (e.g., fish paste), excluding products of food categories 09.3.1 - 09.3.3	2000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
10.2.1	Liquid egg products	5000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
10.4	Egg-based desserts (e.g., custard)	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
11.1	White and semi-white sugar (sucrose or saccharose), fructose, glucose (dextrose), xylose; sugar solutions and syrups, also (partially) inverted sugars, incl. molasses, treacle, and sugar toppings	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
12.3	Vinegars	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
12.5	Soups and broths	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
12.6	Sauces and like products	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
12.7	Salads (e.g., macaroni salad, potato salad) and sandwich spreads excluding cocoa- and nut-based spreads of food categories 04.2.2.5 and 05.1.2	1500 mg/kg	Note 13	6
13.3	Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes, including those for infants and young children	1500 mg/kg	Notes 13 & 83	6
13.4	Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction	1500 mg/kg	Note 13	6
13.5	Dietetic foods (e.g., supplementary foods for dietary use) excluding products of food categories 13.1 - 13.4	2000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
14.1.1.2	Table waters and soda waters	200 mg/kg	Note 13	6
14.1.2.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit juice	2100 mg/kg	Note 13	6
14.1.2.2	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) vegetable juice	2000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
14.1.2.3	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for fruit juice	2100 mg/kg	Note 13	6
14.1.2.4	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for vegetable juice	1400 mg/kg	Note 13	6
14.1.3.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit nectar	2000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
14.1.3.2	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) vegetable nectar	2000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
14.1.3.3	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for fruit nectar	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
14.1.3.4	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for vegetable nectar	500 mg/kg	Note 13	6
14.1.4	Water-based flavoured drinks, including “sport” or “electrolyte” drinks and particulated drinks	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
14.1.5	Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa	600 mg/kg	Note 13	6
14.2.1	Beer and malt beverages	200 mg/kg	Notes 13, 84 & 85	6
14.2.2	Cider and perry	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
14.2.4	Fruit wine	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
14.2.5	Mead	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
15.1	Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes)	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
16.0	Composite foods (e.g., casseroles, meat pies, mincemeat) - foods that could not be placed in categories 01 - 15	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6

BENZOYL PEROXIDE

Benzoyl Peroxide

INS: 928

Function: Bleaching Agent (Not for Flour), Flour Treatment Agent

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.6.2.1	Total ripened cheese, includes rind	1000 mg/kg	Note 55	6
01.8	Whey and whey products, excluding whey cheeses	GMP		6
06.2	Flours and starches	300 mg/kg		6

BHA

Butylated Hydroxyanisole

INS: 320

Function: Antioxidant

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.3.1	Condensed milk (plain)	200 mg/kg	Note 88	6
01.3.2	Beverage whiteners	100 mg/kg		6
01.5.1	Milk powder and cream powder (plain)	200 mg/kg	Note 15	6
01.5.2	Milk and cream powder analogues	100 mg/kg		6
01.7	Dairy-based desserts (e.g., ice cream, ice milk, pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt)	2 mg/kg		6
02.1	Fats and oils essentially free from water	200 mg/kg	Note 15	6
02.2	Fat emulsions mainly of type water-in-oil	200 mg/kg		6
02.3	Fat emulsions other than food category 02.2, including mixed and/or flavoured products based on fat emulsions	200 mg/kg		6
02.4	Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of food category 01.7	100 mg/kg		6
03.0	Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet	200 mg/kg	Note 15	6
04.1.2.2	Dried fruit	100 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.6	Fruit-based spreads (e.g., chutney) excluding products of food category 04.1.2.5	100 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.7	Candied fruit	32 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.9	Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based desserts	2 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.12	Cooked or fried fruit	100 mg/kg		6
04.2.2.2	Dried vegetables, seaweeds, and nuts and seeds	200 mg/kg	Note 76	6
04.2.2.5	Vegetable, and nut and seed purees and spreads (e.g., peanut butter)	100 mg/kg		6
05.1.1	Cocoa mixes (powders and syrups)	100 mg/kg		6
05.1.2	Cocoa-based spreads, including fillings	100 mg/kg		6
05.1.3	Cocoa and chocolate products (e.g., milk chocolate bar, chocolate flakes, white chocolate) other than food categories 05.1.1, 05.1.2 and 05.1.4	90 mg/kg	Note 2	6
05.1.4	Imitation chocolate, chocolate substitue products	100 mg/kg		6
05.2	Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougat, etc. other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4	100 mg/kg		6
05.3	Chewing gum	750 mg/kg		6
05.4	Decorations (e.g., for fine bakery wares), toppings (non- fruit) and sweet sauces	90 mg/kg	Note 2	6
06.1	Whole, broken, or flaked grain, including rice	100 mg/kg		6
06.3	Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats	200 mg/kg	Note 15	6
06.4.2	Pre-cooked or dried pastas and noodles and like products	100 mg/kg		6
06.5	Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g., rice pudding, tapioca pudding)	2 mg/kg		6
07.1.1	Breads and rolls	50 mg/kg		6
07.1.2	Crackers, excluding sweet crackers	50 mg/kg		6
07.1.3	Other ordinary bakery products (e.g., bagels, pita, English muffins)	100 mg/kg		6
07.1.4	Bread-type products, including bread stuffing and bread crumbs	50 mg/kg		6
07.1.5	Steamed breads and buns	50 mg/kg		6
07.2.1	Cakes, cookies and pies (e.g., fruit-filled or custard types)	25 mg/kg		6
07.2.2	Other fine bakery products (e.g., doughnuts, sweet rolls, scones, and muffins)	25 mg/kg		6
07.2.3	Mixes for fine bakery wares (e.g., cakes, pancakes)	200 mg/kg	Note 15	6
08.1	Fresh meat, poultry, and game	100 mg/kg	Note 15	6
08.2	Processed meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or cuts	200 mg/kg	Note 15	6
08.3	Processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	200 mg/kg	Note 15	6
09.2.1	Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	1000 mg/kg		6
09.2.2	Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	200 mg/kg	Note 15	6
09.2.5	Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	200 mg/kg		6
09.3	Semi-preserved fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	200 mg/kg		6
09.4	Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	200 mg/kg		6
10.4	Egg-based desserts (e.g., custard)	2 mg/kg		6
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	20 mg/kg		6
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	200 mg/kg	Note 15	6
12.4	Mustards	200 mg/kg		6
12.5.1	Ready-to-eat soups and broths, including canned, bottled, and frozen	200 mg/kg	Note 15	6
12.5.2	Mixes for soups and broths	300 mg/kg	Note 15	6
12.6	Sauces and like products	200 mg/kg	Note 15	6
12.7	Salads (e.g., macaroni salad, potato salad) and sandwich spreads excluding cocoa- and nut-based spreads of food categories 04.2.2.5 and 05.1.2	200 mg/kg		6
12.8	Yeast and like products	1000 mg/kg		6
13.6	Food supplements	400 mg/kg		6
14.1.4	Water-based flavoured drinks, including “sport” or “electrolyte” drinks and particulated drinks	1000 mg/kg	Note 15	6
15.1	Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes)	200 mg/kg	Note 15	6
15.2	Processed nuts, including covered nuts and nut mixtures (with e.g., dried fruit)	200 mg/kg	Note 15	6

BHT

Butylated Hydroxytoluene

INS: 321

Function: Adjuvant, Antioxidant

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.3.1	Condensed milk (plain)	200 mg/kg	Note 88	6
01.3.2	Beverage whiteners	100 mg/kg		6
01.5	Milk powder and cream powder	100 mg/kg		6
01.7	Dairy-based desserts (e.g., ice cream, ice milk, pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt)	90 mg/kg	Note 2	6
02.1	Fats and oils essentially free from water	200 mg/kg	Note 15	6
02.2.1	Emulsions containing at least 80% fat	200 mg/kg		6
02.2.2	Emulsions containing less than 80% fat (e.g., minarine)	100 mg/kg		6
02.3	Fat emulsions other than food category 02.2, including mixed and/or flavoured products based on fat emulsions	200 mg/kg		6
02.4	Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of food category 01.7	100 mg/kg		6
03.0	Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet	100 mg/kg	Note 15	6
04.1.2.2	Dried fruit	100 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.6	Fruit-based spreads (e.g., chutney) excluding products of food category 04.1.2.5	100 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.9	Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based desserts	90 mg/kg	Note 2	6
04.1.2.12	Cooked or fried fruit	100 mg/kg		6
04.2.2.2	Dried vegetables, seaweeds, and nuts and seeds	200 mg/kg	Note 76	6
05.1.1	Cocoa mixes (powders and syrups)	90 mg/kg		6
05.3	Chewing gum	750 mg/kg		6
06.1	Whole, broken, or flaked grain, including rice	200 mg/kg		6
06.3	Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats	50 mg/kg		6
06.4.2	Pre-cooked or dried pastas and noodles and like products	200 mg/kg		6
06.5	Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g., rice pudding, tapioca pudding)	90 mg/kg	Note 2	6
07.1.1	Breads and rolls	50 mg/kg		6
07.1.2	Crackers, excluding sweet crackers	50 mg/kg		6
07.1.3	Other ordinary bakery products (e.g., bagels, pita, English muffins)	200 mg/kg		6
07.1.4	Bread-type products, including bread stuffing and bread crumbs	50 mg/kg		6
07.1.5	Steamed breads and buns	50 mg/kg		6
07.2	Fine bakery wares	25 mg/kg		6
08.1	Fresh meat, poultry, and game	100 mg/kg	Note 15	6
08.2	Processed meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or cuts	100 mg/kg	Note 15	6
08.3	Processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	100 mg/kg	Note 15	6
09.2.1	Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	1000 mg/kg		6
09.2.2	Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	200 mg/kg	Note 15	6
09.2.5	Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	200 mg/kg		6
09.3	Semi-preserved fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	100 mg/kg		6
09.4	Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	100 mg/kg		6
10.4	Egg-based desserts (e.g., custard)	90 mg/kg	Note 2	6
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	20 mg/kg		6
12.4	Mustards	100 mg/kg		6
12.5	Soups and broths	100 mg/kg		6
12.6	Sauces and like products	100 mg/kg		6
12.7	Salads (e.g., macaroni salad, potato salad) and sandwich spreads excluding cocoa- and nut-based spreads of food categories 04.2.2.5 and 05.1.2	100 mg/kg		6
12.8	Yeast and like products	100 mg/kg		6
13.6	Food supplements	400 mg/kg		6
14.1.4	Water-based flavoured drinks, including “sport” or “electrolyte” drinks and particulated drinks	1000 mg/kg	Note 15	6
15.0	Ready-to-eat savouries	200 mg/kg	Note 15	6

BLEACHED STARCH

Bleached Starch

INS: 1403

Function: Bulking Agent, Emulsifier, Stabilizer, Thickener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.4.2	Sterilized, UHT, whipping or whipped, and reduced fat creams	GMP		6
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	10000 mg/kg		6
14.1.5	Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa	10000 mg/kg		6

BRILLIANT BLACK PN

Brilliant Black PN

INS: 151

Function: Colour

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.1.2	Dairy-based drinks, flavoured and/or fermented (e.g., chocolate milk, cocoa, eggnog, drinking yoghurt, whey- based drinks)	150 mg/kg		6
01.2.1.2	Fermented milks (plain), heat-treated after fermentation	12 mg/kg	Note 12	6
01.6.1	Unripened cheese	GMP	Note 3	6
01.6.2.2	Rind of ripened cheese	GMP		6
01.6.3	Whey cheese	GMP	Note 3	6
01.6.4	Processed cheese	200 mg/kg		6
01.6.5	Cheese analogues	GMP	Note 3	6
01.7	Dairy-based desserts (e.g., ice cream, ice milk, pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt)	150 mg/kg		6
02.4	Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of food category 01.7	150 mg/kg		6
03.0	Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet	150 mg/kg		6
04.1.1.2	Surface-treated fresh fruit	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
04.1.2.4	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit	200 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.5	Jams, jellies and marmelades	500 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.6	Fruit-based spreads (e.g., chutney) excluding products of food category 04.1.2.5	500 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.7	Candied fruit	200 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.8	Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and coconut milk	500 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.9	Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based desserts	150 mg/kg		6
04.2.1.2	Surface-treated fresh vegetables, and nuts and seeds	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
04.2.2.3	Vegetables and seaweeds in vinegar, oil, brine, or soy sauce	500 mg/kg		6
04.2.2.4	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) or retort pouch vegetables	200 mg/kg		6
04.2.2.6	Vegetable, and nut and seed pulps and preparations (e.g., vegetable desserts and sauces, candied vegetables, soybean curd) other than food category 04.2.2.5	200 mg/kg		6
05.1	Cocoa products and chocolate products including imitations and chocolate substitutes	300 mg/kg		6
05.2	Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougat, etc. other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4	300 mg/kg		6
05.3	Chewing gum	300 mg/kg		6
05.4	Decorations (e.g., for fine bakery wares), toppings (non- fruit) and sweet sauces	500 mg/kg		6
06.3	Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats	200 mg/kg		6
06.5	Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g., rice pudding, tapioca pudding)	150 mg/kg		6
07.2	Fine bakery wares	200 mg/kg		6
08.0	Meat and meat products, including poultry and game	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
09.1.1	Fresh fish	300 mg/kg	Note 50	6
09.1.2	Fresh mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
09.2.1	Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	500 mg/kg	Note 95	6
09.2.2	Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
09.2.3	Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
09.2.4.1	Cooked fish and fish products	500 mg/kg		6
09.2.4.2	Cooked mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	250 mg/kg		6
09.2.4.3	Fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
09.2.5	Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	500 mg/kg	Note 22	6
09.3.1	Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms, marinated and/or in jelly	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
09.3.2	Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms, pickled and/or in brine	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
09.3.3	Salmon substitutes, caviar, and other fish roe products	500 mg/kg		6
09.3.4	Semi-preserved fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms (e.g., fish paste), excluding products of food categories 09.3.1 - 09.3.3	500 mg/kg		6
09.4	Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	500 mg/kg		6
10.1	Fresh eggs	GMP	Notes 3 & 4	6
10.4	Egg-based desserts (e.g., custard)	150 mg/kg		6
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	500 mg/kg		6
12.4	Mustards	300 mg/kg		6
12.5	Soups and broths	300 mg/kg		6
12.6	Sauces and like products	500 mg/kg		6
12.9	Protein products	100 mg/kg		6
13.1	Infant formulae and follow -on formulae	50 mg/kg		6
13.2	Weaning foods for infants and growing children	50 mg/kg		6
13.3	Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes, including those for infants and young children	50 mg/kg		6
13.4	Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction	50 mg/kg		6
13.5	Dietetic foods (e.g., supplementary foods for dietary use) excluding products of food categories 13.1 - 13.4	300 mg/kg		6
13.6	Food supplements	300 mg/kg		6
14.1.4	Water-based flavoured drinks, including “sport” or “electrolyte” drinks and particulated drinks	100 mg/kg		6
14.2.2	Cider and perry	200 mg/kg		6
14.2.3.4	Aromatized wine	200 mg/kg		6
14.2.4	Fruit wine	200 mg/kg		6
14.2.6	Spirituous beverages	200 mg/kg		6
15.1	Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes)	200 mg/kg		6
15.2	Processed nuts, including covered nuts and nut mixtures (with e.g., dried fruit)	100 mg/kg		6
16.0	Composite foods (e.g., casseroles, meat pies, mincemeat) - foods that could not be placed in categories 01 - 15	500 mg/kg		6

BRILLIANT BLUE FCF

Brilliant Blue

FCF INS: 133

Function: Colour

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.1.2	Dairy-based drinks, flavoured and/or fermented (e.g., chocolate milk, cocoa, eggnog, drinking yoghurt, whey- based drinks)	150 mg/kg		6
01.2.1	Fermented milks (plain)	150 mg/kg		6
01.6.1	Unripened cheese	GMP	Note 3	6
01.6.2.2	Rind of ripened cheese	100 mg/kg		6
01.6.3	Whey cheese	GMP	Note 3	6
01.6.4	Processed cheese	200 mg/kg		6
01.6.5	Cheese analogues	GMP	Note 3	6
01.7	Dairy-based desserts (e.g., ice cream, ice milk, pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt)	150 mg/kg		6
02.1.3	Lard, tallow, fish oil, and other animal fats	GMP		6
02.2.1.1	Butter and concentrated butter	100 mg/kg		6
02.2.1.2	Margarine and similar products (e.g., butter-margarine blends)	GMP		6
02.4	Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of food category 01.7	150 mg/kg		6
03.0	Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet	150 mg/kg		6
04.1.1.2	Surface-treated fresh fruit	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
04.1.2.4	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit	200 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.5	Jams, jellies and marmelades	500 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.6	Fruit-based spreads (e.g., chutney) excluding products of food category 04.1.2.5	500 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.7	Candied fruit	200 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.8	Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and coconut milk	500 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.9	Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based desserts	150 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.11	Fruit fillings for pastries	244 mg/kg		6
04.2.1.2	Surface-treated fresh vegetables, and nuts and seeds	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
04.2.2.3	Vegetables and seaweeds in vinegar, oil, brine, or soy sauce	500 mg/kg		6
04.2.2.4	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) or retort pouch vegetables	200 mg/kg		6
04.2.2.6	Vegetable, and nut and seed pulps and preparations (e.g., vegetable desserts and sauces, candied vegetables, soybean curd) other than food category 04.2.2.5	200 mg/kg		6
05.1	Cocoa products and chocolate products including imitations and chocolate substitutes	300 mg/kg		6
05.2	Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougat, etc. other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4	300 mg/kg		6
05.3	Chewing gum	300 mg/kg		6
05.4	Decorations (e.g., for fine bakery wares), toppings (non- fruit) and sweet sauces	500 mg/kg		6
06.3	Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats	200 mg/kg		6
06.5	Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g., rice pudding, tapioca pudding)	150 mg/kg		6
07.1	Bread and ordinary bakery wares	100 mg/kg		6
07.2	Fine bakery wares	200 mg/kg		6
08.0	Meat and meat products, including poultry and game	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
09.1.1	Fresh fish	300 mg/kg	Note 50	6
09.1.2	Fresh mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
09.2.1	Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	500 mg/kg	Note 95	6
09.2.2	Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
09.2.3	Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
09.2.4.1	Cooked fish and fish products	500 mg/kg		6
09.2.4.2	Cooked mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	250 mg/kg		6
09.2.4.3	Fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
09.2.5	Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	500 mg/kg	Note 22	6
09.3.1	Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms, marinated and/or in jelly	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
09.3.2	Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms, pickled and/or in brine	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
09.3.3	Salmon substitutes, caviar, and other fish roe products	500 mg/kg		6
09.3.4	Semi-preserved fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms (e.g., fish paste), excluding products of food categories 09.3.1 - 09.3.3	500 mg/kg		6
09.4	Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	500 mg/kg		6
10.1	Fresh eggs	GMP	Notes 3 & 4	6
10.4	Egg-based desserts (e.g., custard)	150 mg/kg		6
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	100 mg/kg		6
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	500 mg/kg		6
12.4	Mustards	300 mg/kg		6
12.5	Soups and broths	300 mg/kg		6
12.6	Sauces and like products	500 mg/kg		6
12.9	Protein products	100 mg/kg		6
13.1	Infant formulae and follow -on formulae	50 mg/kg		6
13.2	Weaning foods for infants and growing children	50 mg/kg		6
13.3	Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes, including those for infants and young children	50 mg/kg		6
13.4	Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction	50 mg/kg		6
13.5	Dietetic foods (e.g., supplementary foods for dietary use) excluding products of food categories 13.1 - 13.4	300 mg/kg		6
13.6	Food supplements	300 mg/kg		6
14.1.2.3	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for fruit juice	100 mg/kg		6
14.1.4	Water-based flavoured drinks, including “sport” or “electrolyte” drinks and particulated drinks	100 mg/kg		6
14.2.1	Beer and malt beverages	GMP		6
14.2.2	Cider and perry	200 mg/kg		6
14.2.3.4	Aromatized wine	200 mg/kg		6
14.2.4	Fruit wine	200 mg/kg		6
14.2.6	Spirituous beverages	200 mg/kg		6
15.1	Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes)	200 mg/kg		6
15.2	Processed nuts, including covered nuts and nut mixtures (with e.g., dried fruit)	100 mg/kg		6
16.0	Composite foods (e.g., casseroles, meat pies, mincemeat) - foods that could not be placed in categories 01 - 15	500 mg/kg		6

BROMELAIN

Bromelain

INS: 1101iii

Function: Flavour Enhancer, Flour Treatment Agent, Stabilizer, Thickener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
08.1.1	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, whole pieces or cuts	GMP		6
14.2.3	Wines	GMP		6

BROWN HT

Brown HT

INS: 155

Function: Colour

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.1.2	Dairy-based drinks, flavoured and/or fermented (e.g., chocolate milk, cocoa, eggnog, drinking yoghurt, whey- based drinks)	150 mg/kg		6
01.6.1	Unripened cheese	GMP	Note 3	6
01.6.2.2	Rind of ripened cheese	50 mg/kg		6
01.6.3	Whey cheese	GMP	Note 3	6
01.6.4	Processed cheese	200 mg/kg		6
01.6.5	Cheese analogues	GMP	Note 3	6
01.7	Dairy-based desserts (e.g., ice cream, ice milk, pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt)	150 mg/kg		6
02.4	Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of food category 01.7	150 mg/kg		6
03.0	Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet	150 mg/kg		6
04.1.1.2	Surface-treated fresh fruit	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
04.1.2.4	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit	200 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.5	Jams, jellies and marmelades	500 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.6	Fruit-based spreads (e.g., chutney) excluding products of food category 04.1.2.5	500 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.7	Candied fruit	200 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.8	Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and coconut milk	500 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.9	Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based desserts	150 mg/kg		6
04.2.1.2	Surface-treated fresh vegetables, and nuts and seeds	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
04.2.2.3	Vegetables and seaweeds in vinegar, oil, brine, or soy sauce	500 mg/kg		6
04.2.2.4	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) or retort pouch vegetables	200 mg/kg		6
04.2.2.6	Vegetable, and nut and seed pulps and preparations (e.g., vegetable desserts and sauces, candied vegetables, soybean curd) other than food category 04.2.2.5	200 mg/kg		6
05.1	Cocoa products and chocolate products including imitations and chocolate substitutes	80 mg/kg		6
05.2	Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougat, etc. other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4	300 mg/kg		6
05.3	Chewing gum	300 mg/kg		6
05.4	Decorations (e.g., for fine bakery wares), toppings (non- fruit) and sweet sauces	500 mg/kg		6
06.3	Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats	200 mg/kg		6
06.5	Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g., rice pudding, tapioca pudding)	150 mg/kg		6
07.2	Fine bakery wares	200 mg/kg		6
08.0	Meat and meat products, including poultry and game	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
09.1.1	Fresh fish	300 mg/kg	Note 50	6
09.1.2	Fresh mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
09.2.1	Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	500 mg/kg	Note 95	6
09.2.2	Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
09.2.3	Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
09.2.4.1	Cooked fish and fish products	500 mg/kg		6
09.2.4.2	Cooked mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	250 mg/kg		6
09.2.4.3	Fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
09.2.5	Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	500 mg/kg	Note 22	6
09.3.1	Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms, marinated and/or in jelly	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
09.3.2	Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms, pickled and/or in brine	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
09.3.3	Salmon substitutes, caviar, and other fish roe products	500 mg/kg		6
09.3.4	Semi-preserved fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms (e.g., fish paste), excluding products of food categories 09.3.1 - 09.3.3	500 mg/kg		6
09.4	Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	500 mg/kg		6
10.1	Fresh eggs	GMP	Notes 3 & 4	6
10.4	Egg-based desserts (e.g., custard)	50 mg/kg		6
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	500 mg/kg		6
12.4	Mustards	300 mg/kg		6
12.5	Soups and broths	300 mg/kg		6
12.6	Sauces and like products	500 mg/kg		6
12.9	Protein products	100 mg/kg		6
13.1	Infant formulae and follow -on formulae	50 mg/kg		6
13.2	Weaning foods for infants and growing children	50 mg/kg		6
13.3	Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes, including those for infants and young children	50 mg/kg		6
13.4	Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction	50 mg/kg		6
13.5	Dietetic foods (e.g., supplementary foods for dietary use) excluding products of food categories 13.1 - 13.4	300 mg/kg		6
13.6	Food supplements	300 mg/kg		6
14.1.4	Water-based flavoured drinks, including “sport” or “electrolyte” drinks and particulated drinks	100 mg/kg		6
14.2.2	Cider and perry	200 mg/kg		6
14.2.3.4	Aromatized wine	200 mg/kg		6
14.2.4	Fruit wine	200 mg/kg		6
14.2.6	Spirituous beverages	200 mg/kg		6
15.1	Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes)	200 mg/kg		6
15.2	Processed nuts, including covered nuts and nut mixtures (with e.g., dried fruit)	100 mg/kg		6
16.0	Composite foods (e.g., casseroles, meat pies, mincemeat) - foods that could not be placed in categories 01 - 15	500 mg/kg		6