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GALLATE, PROPYL

Gallate, Propyl

INS: 310

Function: Antioxidant

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
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

GELLAN GUM

Gellan Gum

INS: 418

Function: Thickener, Stabilizer

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	500 mg/kg		6

GLUCONO DELTA-LACTONE

Glucono Delta-Lactone

INS: 575

Function: Acidity Regulator, Raising Agent

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.2.1	Fermented milks (plain)	GMP		6

GLUCOSE OXIDASE (ASPERGILLUS NIGER VAR.)

Glucose Oxidase (Aspergillus niger var.)

INS: 1102

Function: Antioxidant, Preservative, Stabilizer

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

GLUTAMIC ACID (L(+)-)

Glutamic Acid (L(+)-)

INS: 620

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

GLYCEROL

Glycerol

INS: 422

Function: Emulsifier, Humectant, Stabilizer, Thickener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.1.1.2	Buttermilk (plain)	GMP		6
01.2.1.2	Fermented milks (plain), heat-treated after fermentation	GMP		6
01.2.2	Renneted milk	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
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	Fresh fish and fish products, including 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	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
10.2.2	Frozen egg products	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	Note 51	6
14.1.5	Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa	GMP		6
14.2.3.4	Aromatized wine	GMP		6

GRAPE SKIN EXTRACT

Grape Skin Extract

INS: 163ii

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
01.6.1	Unripened cheese	GMP		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.	GMP		6
01.6.5	Cheese analogues	GMP		6
01.7	Dairy-based desserts (e.g., ice cream, ice milk, pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt)	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	GMP		6
03.0	Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet	100 mg/kg		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	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
04.2.1.2	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
05.1.2	Cocoa-based spreads, including fillings	GMP		6
05.2	Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougat, etc. other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4	GMP		6
05.3	Chewing gum	5000 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	200 mg/kg		6
06.5	Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g., rice pudding, tapioca pudding)	GMP		6
07.0	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	Note 94	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	GMP	Note 16	6
08.3.1.3	Fermented non-heat treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	GMP	Note 16	6
08.3.2	Heat-treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	GMP	Note 16	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	Note 95	6
10.1	Fresh eggs	GMP	Notes 3 & 4	6
10.4	Egg-based desserts (e.g., custard)	GMP		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	500 mg/kg		6
14.2.1	Beer and malt beverages	GMP		6
14.2.2	Cider and perry	GMP		6
14.2.3.2	Sparkling and semi-sparkling wines	GMP		6
14.2.3.3	Fortified wine and liquor wine	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)	GMP		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	10 mg/kg		6

GUAIAC RESIN

Guaiac Resin

INS: 314

Function: Antioxidant

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
12.6	Sauces and like products	600 mg/kg		6

GUANYLIC ACID, 5'-

Guanylic Acid, 5'-

INS: 626

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

GUAR GUM

Guar Gum

INS: 412

Function: Bulking Agent, Emulsifier, Stabilizer, Thickener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.1.1	Milk and buttermilk	6000 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	GMP		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	20000 mg/kg		6
02.2.1.1	Butter and concentrated butter	GMP	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
04.2.2.1	Frozen vegetables	20000 mg/kg		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		6
09.2.2	Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	2000 mg/kg		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)	10000 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

GUM ARABIC

Gum Arabic

INS: 414

Function: Bulking Agent, Emulsifier, Filler, Stabilizer, Thickener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.1.1.2	Buttermilk (plain)	GMP		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
02.1	Fats and oils essentially free from water	15000 mg/kg		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	Fresh vegetables, and nuts and seeds	83000 mg/kg		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	Fresh fish and fish products, including 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	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)	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	10000 mg/kg	Note 65	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