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CALCIUM ACETATE

Calcium Acetate

INS: 263

Function: Acidity Regulator, Preservative, Stabilizer, Thickener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	1500 mg/kg		6
13.2	Weaning foods for infants and growing children	GMP		6

CALCIUM ALGINATE

Calcium Alginate

INS: 404

Function: Antifoaming Agent, Emulsifier, Stabilizer, Thickener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.1.1.2	Buttermilk (plain)	6000 mg/kg		6
01.2.1.2	Fermented milks (plain), heat-treated after fermentation	5000 mg/kg		6
01.4.1	Pasteurized cream	100 mg/kg		6
01.4.2	Sterilized, UHT, whipping or whipped, and reduced fat creams	5000 mg/kg		6
02.1	Fats and oils essentially free from water	5000 mg/kg		6
02.2.1.1	Butter and concentrated butter	GMP	Note 52	6
09.2.1	Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	5000 mg/kg		6
10.2.1	Liquid egg products	6000 mg/kg		6
10.2.2	Frozen egg products	6000 mg/kg		6
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	10000 mg/kg		6
13.1	Infant formulae and follow -on formulae	300 mg/kg		6
13.2	Weaning foods for infants and growing children	5000 mg/kg		6
14.2.3	Wines	4000 mg/kg		6

CALCIUM ALUMINIUM SILICATE (SYNTHETIC)

Calcium Aluminium Silicate (Synthetic)

INS: 556

Function: Anticaking Agent

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
06.1	Whole, broken, or flaked grain, including rice	GMP		6
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	15000 mg/kg	Note 56	6
12.1	Salt	20000 mg/kg		6
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	10000 mg/kg	Note 51	6
14.1.2.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit juice	GMP		6
14.2.3	Wines	GMP		6

CALCIUM ASCORBATE

Calcium Ascorbate

INS: 302

Function: Antioxidant

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
04.1.1	Fresh fruit	GMP		6
04.2.2.1	Frozen vegetables	GMP		6
08.1.2	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, comminuted	GMP		6
09.1	Fresh fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		6
09.2.1	Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	400 mg/kg		6
09.2.2	Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 15	6
13.1	Infant formulae and follow -on formulae	50 mg/kg		6
13.2	Weaning foods for infants and growing children	3000 mg/kg		6
14.1.2.3	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for fruit juice	300 mg/kg		6
14.1.3.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit nectar	GMP		6
14.1.3.3	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for fruit nectar	300 mg/kg		6
14.2.3	Wines	GMP		6

CALCIUM CARBONATE

Calcium Carbonate

INS: 170i

Function: Anticaking Agent, Acidity Regulator, Colour, Emulsifier, Stabilizer

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.2.2	Renneted milk	GMP		6
01.4.1	Pasteurized cream	2000 mg/kg		6
01.4.2	Sterilized, UHT, whipping or whipped, and reduced fat creams	5000 mg/kg		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
06.1	Whole, broken, or flaked grain, including rice	2220 mg/kg		6
06.2	Flours and starches	GMP	Note 57	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	1500 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	Note 95	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		6
10.1	Fresh eggs	GMP	Notes 3 & 4	6
12.1	Salt	20000 mg/kg		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
14.2.3	Wines	3500 mg/kg		6

CALCIUM CHLORIDE

Calcium Chloride

INS: 509

Function: Firming Agent, Stabilizer, Thickener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.4.1	Pasteurized cream	2000 mg/kg		6
01.4.2	Sterilized, UHT, whipping or whipped, and reduced fat creams	2000 mg/kg		6
04.2.1.2	Surface-treated fresh vegetables, and nuts and seeds	800 mg/kg	Note 58	6
04.2.1.3	Peeled, cut or shredded vegetables, and nuts and seeds	800 mg/kg	Note 58	6
04.2.2.1	Frozen vegetables	4000 mg/kg		6
08.1.1	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, whole pieces or cuts	15000 mg/kg		6
14.1.2.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit juice	2000 mg/kg		6
14.1.5	Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa	3200 mg/kg		6

CALCIUM CITRATE

Calcium Citrate

INS: 333

Function: Acidity Regulator, Antioxidant, Emulsifier, Firming Agent, Sequestrant

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.4.1	Pasteurized cream	2000 mg/kg		6
01.4.2	Sterilized, UHT, whipping or whipped, and reduced fat creams	2000 mg/kg		6
02.1	Fats and oils essentially free from water	GMP		6
04.2.2.1	Frozen vegetables	GMP		6
08.1.2	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, comminuted	GMP		6
09.1	Fresh fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		6
09.2.1	Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		6
09.2.4	Cooked and/or fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		6
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	GMP	Note 51	6
13.1	Infant formulae and follow -on formulae	GMP		6
13.2	Weaning foods for infants and growing children	GMP		6

CALCIUM GLUCONATE

Calcium Gluconate

INS: 578

Function: Acidity Regulator, Firming Agent, Stabilizer, Thickener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
04.2.1.2	Surface-treated fresh vegetables, and nuts and seeds	800 mg/kg	Note 58	6
04.2.1.3	Peeled, cut or shredded vegetables, and nuts and seeds	800 mg/kg	Note 58	6
04.2.2.1	Frozen vegetables	1000 mg/kg	Note 58	6

CALCIUM GLUTAMATE, Dl-L-

Calcium Glutamate, Dl-L

INS: 623

Function: Flavour Enhancer

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	GMP	Note 51	6

CALCIUM GUANYLATE, 5'-

Calcium Guanylate, 5'-

INS: 629

Function: Flavour Enhancer

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	GMP	Note 51	6

CALCIUM HYDROXIDE

Calcium Hydroxide

INS: 526

Function: Acidity Regulator, Firming Agent

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
02.2.1.1	Butter and concentrated butter	2000 mg/kg	Note 52	6
04.2.1.2	Surface-treated fresh vegetables, and nuts and seeds	800 mg/kg	Note 58	6
04.2.1.3	Peeled, cut or shredded vegetables, and nuts and seeds	800 mg/kg	Note 58	6
04.2.2.1	Frozen vegetables	1000 mg/kg	Note 58	6
08.1.1	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, whole pieces or cuts	GMP		6
13.1	Infant formulae and follow -on formulae	GMP		6
13.2	Weaning foods for infants and growing children	GMP		6

CALCIUM INOSINATE, 5'-

Calcium Inosinate, 5'-

INS: 633

Function: Flavour Enhancer

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	GMP	Note 51	6

CALCIUM LACTATE

Calcium Lactate

INS: 327

Function: Acidity Regulator, Antioxidant, Emulsifier, Firming Agent, Stabilzer, Thickener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.4.1	Pasteurized cream	GMP		6
08.1.2	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, comminuted	6000 mg/kg		6
12.1	Salt	GMP		6
13.2	Weaning foods for infants and growing children	GMP		6

CALCIUM MALATE

Calcium Malate INS: 352ii

Function: Acidity Regulator

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
14.2.3	Wines	GMP		6

CALCIUM OXIDE

Calcium Oxide

INS: 529

Function: Acidity Regulator, Flour Treatment Agent

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

CALCIUM RIBONUCLEOTIDES, 5'-

Calcium Ribonucleotides, 5'-

INS: 634

Function: Flavour Enhancer

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	GMP	Note 51	6

CALCIUM SILICATE

Calcium Silicate

INS: 552

Function: Anticaking Agent

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	15000 mg/kg	Note 56	6
12.1	Salt	20000 mg/kg		6
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	10000 mg/kg	Note 51	6

CALCIUM SULPHATE

Calcium Sulphate

INS: 516

Function: Acidity Regulator, Bulking Agent, Firming Agent, Flour Treatment Agent, Sequestrant, Stabilizer, Thickener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
04.2.1.2	Surface-treated fresh vegetables, and nuts and seeds	800 mg/kg	Note 58	6
04.2.1.3	Peeled, cut or shredded vegetables, and nuts and seeds	800 mg/kg	Note 58	6
04.2.2.1	Frozen vegetables	3500 mg/kg		6
06.2	Flours and starches	GMP	Note 57	6
06.4.2	Pre-cooked or dried pastas and noodles and like products	5000 mg/kg	Note 54	6
14.2.3	Wines	2000 mg/kg		6

CANDELILLA WAX

Candelilla Wax

INS: 902

Function: Bulking Agent, Carrier Solvent, Glazing Agent, Release Agent

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

CANTHAXANTHIN

Canthaxanthin

INS: 161g

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)	GMP		6
01.6	Cheese	GMP		6
01.7	Dairy-based desserts (e.g., ice cream, ice milk, pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt)	GMP		6
02.0	Fats and oils, and fat emulsions (type water-in-oil)	GMP		6
03.0	Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet	GMP		6
04.1.2.4	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit	GMP		6
04.1.2.5	Jams, jellies and marmelades	200 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.6	Fruit-based spreads (e.g., chutney) excluding products of food category 04.1.2.5	GMP		6
04.1.2.8	Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and coconut milk	GMP		6
04.1.2.9	Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based desserts	GMP		6
04.1.2.11	Fruit fillings for pastries	GMP		6
04.2.2.2	Dried vegetables, seaweeds, and nuts and seeds	8.2 mg/kg		6
04.2.2.3	Vegetables and seaweeds in vinegar, oil, brine, or soy sauce	GMP		6
05.1	Cocoa products and chocolate products including imitations and chocolate substitutes	GMP		6
05.2	Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougat, etc. other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4	50 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	GMP		6
06.3	Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats	35 mg/kg		6
06.4.2	Pre-cooked or dried pastas and noodles and like products	GMP		6
06.5	Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g., rice pudding, tapioca pudding)	GMP		6
06.6	Batters (e.g., for breading ro batters for fish or poultry)	GMP		6
07.0	Bakery wares	GMP		6
08.1.1	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, whole pieces or cuts	100 mg/kg		6
08.1.2	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, comminuted	1000 mg/kg	Note 94	6
08.3.1.1	Cured (including salted) non-heat treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	1000 mg/kg		6
08.3.2	Heat-treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	15 mg/kg		6
08.4	Edible casings (e.g., sausage casings)	GMP		6
09.2.1	Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		6
09.2.4.1	Cooked fish and fish products	200 mg/kg		6
09.2.4.3	Fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		6
09.2.5	Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		6
09.3.3	Salmon substitutes, caviar, and other fish roe products	GMP		6
09.4	Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	100 mg/kg		6
10.1	Fresh eggs	GMP	Notes 3 & 4	6
10.4	Egg-based desserts (e.g., custard)	GMP		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	GMP		6
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	GMP		6
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	GMP		6
12.5.1	Ready-to-eat soups and broths, including canned, bottled, and frozen	30 mg/kg		6
12.5.2	Mixes for soups and broths	100 mg/kg		6
12.6	Sauces and like products	100 mg/kg		6
12.9	Protein products	100 mg/kg		6
14.1.2.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit juice	5 mg/kg		6
14.1.3.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit nectar	5 mg/kg		6
14.1.4.1	Carbonated drinks	GMP		6
14.1.4.2	Non-carbonated, including punches and ades	5 mg/kg		6
14.1.4.3	Concentrates (liquid or solid) for drinks	100 mg/kg		6
14.2.1	Beer and malt beverages	5 mg/kg		6
14.2.3	Wines	5 mg/kg		6
14.2.6	Spirituous beverages	5 mg/kg		6
15.1	Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes)	GMP		6
16.0	Composite foods (e.g., casseroles, meat pies, mincemeat) - foods that could not be placed in categories 01 - 15	GMP	Note 2	6

CARAMEL COLOUR, CLASS I

Caramel Colour, Class I - Plain

INS: 150a

Function: Colour

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.2.1.1	Fermented milks (plain), not heat-treated after fermentation	GMP		6
01.2.1.2	Fermented milks (plain), heat-treated after fermentation	150 mg/kg	Note 12	6
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
02.2.1.1	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
06.1	Whole, broken, or flaked grain, including rice	GMP		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	GMP		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	Note 95	6
09.2.2	Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 41	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		6
10.1	Fresh eggs	GMP	Notes 3 & 4	6
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	GMP		6
13.1	Infant formulae and follow -on formulae	GMP		6
13.2	Weaning foods for infants and growing children	GMP		6
14.1.2.3	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for fruit juice	GMP		6
14.2.3	Wines	GMP		6

CARAMEL COLOUR, CLASS III

Caramel Colour, Class III - Ammonia

INS: 150c

Process

Function: Colour

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
02.2.1.2	Margarine and similar products (e.g., butter-margarine blends)	GMP		6
02.3	Fat emulsions other than food category 02.2, including mixed and/or flavoured products based on fat emulsions	GMP		6
04.2.2.2	Dried vegetables, seaweeds, and nuts and seeds	GMP	Note 76	6
04.2.2.7	Fermented vegetable products	GMP		6
04.2.2.8	Cooked or fried vegetables and seaweeds	GMP		6
05.1	Cocoa products and chocolate products including imitations and chocolate substitutes	GMP		6
06.4.2	Pre-cooked or dried pastas and noodles and like products	GMP		6
06.6	Batters (e.g., for breading ro batters for fish or poultry)	GMP		6
07.1.2	Crackers, excluding sweet crackers	GMP		6
14.1.2	Fruit and vegetable juices	GMP		6
14.1.4	Water-based flavoured drinks, including “sport” or “electrolyte” drinks and particulated drinks	5000 mg/kg		6
14.1.5	Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa	GMP		6
15.1	Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes)	GMP		6
15.2	Processed nuts, including covered nuts and nut mixtures (with e.g., dried fruit)	GMP		6

CARAMEL COLOUR, CLASS IV

Caramel Colour, Class IV - Ammonia

INS: 150d

Sulphite Process

Function: Colour

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.6.4.1	Plain processed cheese	GMP		6
01.6.4.2	Flavoured processed cheese, including containing fruit, vegetables, meat, etc.	100 mg/kg	Notes 5 & 72	6
02.2.1.2	Margarine and similar products (e.g., butter-margarine blends)	GMP		6
02.3	Fat emulsions other than food category 02.2, including mixed and/or flavoured products based on fat emulsions	GMP		6
04.2.2.2	Dried vegetables, seaweeds, and nuts and seeds	GMP	Note 76	6
04.2.2.7	Fermented vegetable products	GMP		6
04.2.2.8	Cooked or fried vegetables and seaweeds	GMP		6
05.1	Cocoa products and chocolate products including imitations and chocolate substitutes	GMP		6
06.4.2	Pre-cooked or dried pastas and noodles and like products	GMP		6
06.6	Batters (e.g., for breading ro batters for fish or poultry)	GMP		6
06.7	Rice cakes (Oriental type only)	GMP		6
07.1.2	Crackers, excluding sweet crackers	GMP		6
12.3	Vinegars	1000 mg/kg		6
14.1.2	Fruit and vegetable juices	GMP		6
14.1.4	Water-based flavoured drinks, including “sport” or “electrolyte” drinks and particulated drinks	5000 mg/kg		6
14.1.5	Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa	GMP		6
14.2.1	Beer and malt beverages	GMP		6
14.2.6	Spirituous beverages	GMP		6
15.1	Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes)	GMP		6
15.2	Processed nuts, including covered nuts and nut mixtures (with e.g., dried fruit)	GMP		6

CARBON DIOXIDE

Carbon Dioxide

INS: 290

Function: Adjuvant, Carbonating Agent, Pac king Gas

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.1.1	Milk and buttermilk	GMP	Note 59	6
01.2	Fermented and renneted milk products (plain), excluding food category 01.1.2 (dairy-based drinks)	GMP	Note 59	6
01.4.1	Pasteurized cream	GMP	Note 59	6
01.4.2	Sterilized, UHT, whipping or whipped, and reduced fat creams	GMP	Note 59	6
04.1.1	Fresh fruit	GMP	Note 59	6
04.2.1	Fresh vegetables, and nuts and seeds	GMP	Note 59	6
04.2.2.1	Frozen vegetables	GMP	Note 59	6
08.1.2	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, comminuted	100 mg/kg	Note 59	6
09.1	Fresh fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 59	6
09.2.1	Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 59	6
14.1.2.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit juice	GMP	Note 69	6
14.1.5	Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa	GMP	Note 59	6
14.2.3	Wines	GMP	Note 60	6

CARMINES

Carmines

INS: 120

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	20 mg/kg	Note 12	6
01.6.1	Unripened cheese	GMP	Note 3	6
01.6.2.1	Total ripened cheese, includes rind	125 mg/kg		6
01.6.2.2	Rind of ripened cheese	GMP		6
01.6.3	Whey cheese	GMP	Note 3	6
01.6.4.2	Flavoured processed cheese, including containing fruit, vegetables, meat, etc.	100 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	Fats and oils essentially free from water	GMP		6
02.2	Fat emulsions mainly of type water-in-oil	GMP		6
02.3	Fat emulsions other than food category 02.2, including mixed and/or flavoured products based on fat emulsions	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	200 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	300 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	GMP		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
04.2.2.5	Vegetable, and nut and seed purees and spreads (e.g., peanut butter)	100 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	300 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	1020 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
06.4.2	Pre-cooked or dried pastas and noodles and like products	GMP		6
06.5	Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g., rice pudding, tapioca pudding)	150 mg/kg		6
06.6	Batters (e.g., for breading ro batters for fish or poultry)	GMP		6
07.1	Bread and ordinary bakery wares	GMP		6
07.2	Fine bakery wares	200 mg/kg		6
08.1.1	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, whole pieces or cuts	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
08.1.2	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, comminuted	1000 mg/kg		6
08.2	Processed meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or cuts	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
08.3.1.1	Cured (including salted) non-heat treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	1000 mg/kg		6
08.3.1.2	Cured (including salted) and dried non-heat treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	100 mg/kg		6
08.3.1.3	Fermented non-heat treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	100 mg/kg		6
08.3.2	Heat-treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	100 mg/kg		6
08.3.3	Frozen processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
08.4	Edible casings (e.g., sausage casings)	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	300 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	50 mg/kg		6
12.6	Sauces and like products	500 mg/kg		6
12.9	Protein products	100 mg/kg		6
13.3	Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes, including those for infants and young children	50 mg/kg	Note 83	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
14.1.2.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit juice	GMP		6
14.1.3.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit nectar	GMP		6
14.1.4	Water-based flavoured drinks, including “sport” or “electrolyte” drinks and particulated drinks	1000 mg/kg		6
14.2.1	Beer and malt beverages	GMP	Note 96	6
14.2.2	Cider and perry	200 mg/kg		6
14.2.3.1	Still wine	GMP	Note 96	6
14.2.3.2	Sparkling and semi-sparkling wines	GMP	Note 96	6
14.2.3.3	Fortified wine and liquor wine	GMP		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

CARNAUBA WAX

Carnauba Wax

INS: 903

Function: Anticaking Agent, Adjuvant, Bulking Agent, Carrier Solvent, Glazing Agent, Release Agent

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
04.1.1.2	Surface-treated fresh fruit	GMP		6
04.1.2	Processed fruit	GMP		6
04.2.1.2	Surface-treated fresh vegetables, and nuts and seeds	GMP	Note 79	6
12.6	Sauces and like products	GMP		6
14.1.2.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit juice	GMP		6
14.1.4	Water-based flavoured drinks, including “sport” or “electrolyte” drinks and particulated drinks	200 mg/kg		6

CAROB BEAN GUM

Carob Bean Gum

INS: 410

Function: Emulsifier, Stabilizer, Thickener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.1.1.2	Buttermilk (plain)	5000 mg/kg		6
01.2.1.2	Fermented milks (plain), heat-treated after fermentation	5000 mg/kg		6
01.2.2	Renneted milk	GMP		6
01.4.1	Pasteurized cream	5000 mg/kg		6
01.4.2	Sterilized, UHT, whipping or whipped, and reduced fat creams	5000 mg/kg		6
02.2.1.1	Butter and concentrated butter	2000 mg/kg	Note 52	6
04.1.1.2	Surface-treated fresh fruit	GMP		6
04.1.1.3	Peeled or cut fresh fruit	GMP		6
04.2.1.2	Surface-treated fresh vegetables, and nuts and seeds	GMP		6
04.2.1.3	Peeled, cut or shredded vegetables, and nuts and seeds	GMP		6
06.1	Whole, broken, or flaked grain, including rice	GMP		6
08.1.2	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, comminuted	GMP		6
09.2.1	Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	5000 mg/kg	Note 61	6
09.2.2	Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	5000 mg/kg	Note 41	6
09.2.3	Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		6
09.2.4	Cooked and/or fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		6
09.2.5	Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		6
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	5000 mg/kg		6
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	GMP	Note 51	6
13.1	Infant formulae and follow -on formulae	10000 mg/kg		6
13.2	Weaning foods for infants and growing children	20000 mg/kg		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
14.1.5	Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa	GMP		6
14.2.3	Wines	500 mg/kg		6

CAROTENES, VEGETABLE

Carotenes, Natural Extracts, (Vegetable)

INS: 160aii

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)	GMP		6
01.2.2	Renneted milk	GMP		6
01.3.2	Beverage whiteners	GMP		6
01.4	Cream (plain) and the like	GMP		6
01.5.2	Milk and cream powder analogues	GMP		6
01.6	Cheese	600 mg/kg		6
01.7	Dairy-based desserts (e.g., ice cream, ice milk, pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt)	GMP		6
02.1	Fats and oils essentially free from water	GMP		6
02.2.1.1	Butter and concentrated butter	600 mg/kg		6
02.2.1.2	Margarine and similar products (e.g., butter-margarine blends)	GMP		6
02.2.2	Emulsions containing less than 80% fat (e.g., minarine)	GMP		6
02.3	Fat emulsions other than food category 02.2, including mixed and/or flavoured products based on fat emulsions	GMP		6
02.4	Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of food category 01.7	GMP		6
03.0	Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet	GMP		6
04.1.1.2	Surface-treated fresh fruit	GMP	Note 16	6
04.1.2.3	Fruit in vinegar, oil, or brine	GMP		6
04.1.2.4	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit	GMP		6
04.1.2.5	Jams, jellies and marmelades	GMP		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	GMP		6
04.1.2.8	Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and coconut milk	4 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.9	Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based desserts	GMP		6
04.1.2.11	Fruit fillings for pastries	4 mg/kg		6
04.2.1.2	Surface-treated fresh vegetables, and nuts and seeds	GMP	Note 16	6
04.2.2.3	Vegetables and seaweeds in vinegar, oil, brine, or soy sauce	500 mg/kg		6
04.2.2.5	Vegetable, and nut and seed purees and spreads (e.g., peanut butter)	GMP		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	GMP		6
04.2.2.7	Fermented vegetable products	GMP		6
05.1	Cocoa products and chocolate products including imitations and chocolate substitutes	120 mg/kg		6
05.2	Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougat, etc. other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4	120 mg/kg		6
05.3	Chewing gum	500 mg/kg		6
05.4	Decorations (e.g., for fine bakery wares), toppings (non- fruit) and sweet sauces	GMP		6
06.3	Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats	400 mg/kg		6
06.4.2	Pre-cooked or dried pastas and noodles and like products	GMP		6
06.5	Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g., rice pudding, tapioca pudding)	GMP		6
07.2	Fine bakery wares	GMP		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
08.2	Processed meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or cuts	GMP	Note 16	6
08.3.1.1	Cured (including salted) non-heat treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	1000 mg/kg	Note 78	6
08.3.1.2	Cured (including salted) and dried non-heat treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	20 mg/kg		6
08.3.1.3	Fermented non-heat treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	20 mg/kg		6
08.3.2	Heat-treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	20 mg/kg		6
08.3.3	Frozen processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	GMP	Note 16	6
08.4	Edible casings (e.g., sausage casings)	GMP		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	Note 95	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
09.3.1	Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms, marinated and/or in jelly	GMP	Note 16	6
09.3.2	Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms, pickled and/or in brine	GMP	Note 16	6
09.3.3	Salmon substitutes, caviar, and other fish roe products	GMP		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	GMP	Note 16	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)	GMP		6
12.4	Mustards	GMP		6
12.5	Soups and broths	GMP		6
12.6.1	Emulsified sauces (e.g., mayonnaise, salad dressing)	GMP		6
12.6.2	Non-emulsified sauces (e.g., ketchup, cheese sauce, cream sauce, brown gravy)	GMP		6
12.6.3	Mixes for sauces and gravies	GMP		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	GMP		6
12.9	Protein products	GMP		6
13.3	Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes, including those for infants and young children	GMP	Note 83	6
13.4	Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction	GMP		6
13.5	Dietetic foods (e.g., supplementary foods for dietary use) excluding products of food categories 13.1 - 13.4	GMP		6
13.6	Food supplements	GMP		6
14.1.3.2	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) vegetable nectar	GMP		6
14.1.3.4	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for vegetable nectar	GMP		6
14.1.4	Water-based flavoured drinks, including “sport” or “electrolyte” drinks and particulated drinks	2000 mg/kg		6
14.2.2	Cider and perry	GMP		6
14.2.3.2	Sparkling and semi-sparkling wines	GMP		6
14.2.3.4	Aromatized wine	GMP		6
14.2.4	Fruit wine	GMP		6
14.2.6	Spirituous beverages	GMP		6
15.1	Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes)	25 mg/kg		6
15.2	Processed nuts, including covered nuts and nut mixtures (with e.g., dried fruit)	GMP		6
16.0	Composite foods (e.g., casseroles, meat pies, mincemeat) - foods that could not be placed in categories 01 - 15	GMP		6

CAROTENOIDS