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PAPAIN

Papain

INS: 1101ii

Function: Flavour Enhancer, Flour Treatment Agent, Stabilizer

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

PECTINS (AMIDATED AND NON-AMIDATED)

Pectins (Amidated and Non-Amidated)

INS: 440

Function: Emulsifier, Stabilizer, Thickener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.1.1	Milk and buttermilk	GMP		6
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	10000 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
02.2.1.1	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
06.4.2	Pre-cooked or dried pastas and noodles and like products	GMP	Note 54	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	GMP	Note 41	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
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
14.1.5	Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa	GMP		6

PHOSPHATED DISTARCH PHOSPHATE

Phosphated Distarch Phosphate

INS: 1413

Function: Bulking Agent, Emulsifier, Stabilizer, Thickener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.2.1.2	Fermented milks (plain), heat-treated after fermentation	10000 mg/kg		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
09.2.2	Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 41	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	60000 mg/kg		6
13.2	Weaning foods for infants and growing children	60000 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

PHOSPHATES

Orthophosphoric Acid	INS: 338
Monosodium Orthophosphate	INS: 339i
Disodium Orthophosphate	INS: 339ii
Trisodium Orthophosphate	INS: 339iii
Monopotassium Orthophosphate	INS: 340i
Dipotassium Orthophosphate	INS: 340ii
Tripotassium Orthophosphate	INS: 340iii
Monocalcium Orthophosphate	INS: 341i
Dicalcium Orthophosphate	INS: 341ii
TriCalcium Orthophosphate	INS: 341iii
Monoammonium Orthophosphate	INS: 342i
Diammonium Orthophosphate	INS: 342ii
Dimagnesium Orthophosphate	INS: 343ii
Trimagnesium Orthophosphate	INS: 343iii
Disodium Diphosphate	INS: 450i
Tetrasodium Diphosphate	INS: 450iii
Tetrapotassium Diphosphate	INS: 450v
Dicalcium Diphosphate	INS: 450vi
Pentasodium Triphosphate	INS: 451i
Pentapotassium Triphosphate	INS: 451ii
Sodium Polyphosphate	INS: 452i
Potassium Polyphosphate	INS: 452ii
Calcium Polyphosphates	INS: 452iv
Ammonium Polyphosphates	INS: 452v
Bone Phosphate	INS: 542

Function: Anticaking Agt, Acidity Reg., Adj., Antiox idant, Colour Retention Agt, Emulsifier, Flavour Enh, Firming Agt, Flour Trt Agt, Humectant, Pres., Raising Agt, Seq., Stabilizer, Thk

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.1.1	Milk and buttermilk	440 mg/kg	Note 33	6
01.1.2	Dairy-based drinks, flavoured and/or fermented (e.g., chocolate milk, cocoa, eggnog, drinking yoghurt, whey-based drinks)	660 mg/kg	Note 33	6
01.2	Fermented and renneted milk products (plain), excluding food category 01.1.2 (dairy-based drinks)	440 mg/kg	Note 33	6
01.3.1	Condensed milk (plain)	660 mg/kg	Notes 33 & 34	6
01.3.2	Beverage whiteners	11000 mg/kg	Note 33	6
01.4	Cream (plain) and the like	1100 mg/kg	Note 33	6
01.5.1	Milk powder and cream powder (plain)	2200 mg/kg	Note 33	6
01.5.2	Milk and cream powder analogues	440 mg/kg	Note 33	6
01.5.3	Milk and cream (blend) powder (plain and flavoured)	440 mg/kg	Note 33	6
01.6.1	Unripened cheese	10000 mg/kg	Note 33	6
01.6.2	Ripened cheese	440 mg/kg	Note 33	6
01.6.3	Whey cheese	440 mg/kg	Note 33	6
01.6.4	Processed cheese	10000 mg/kg	Note 33	6
01.6.5	Cheese analogues	6600 mg/kg	Note 33	6
01.6.6	Whey protein cheese	440 mg/kg	Note 33	6
01.7	Dairy-based desserts (e.g., ice cream, ice milk, pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt)	4400 mg/kg	Note 33	6
01.8	Whey and whey products, excluding whey cheeses	440 mg/kg	Note 33	6
02.1.1	Butter oil, anhydrous milkfat, ghee	22 mg/kg	Note 33	6
02.1.2	Vegetable oils and fats	110 mg/kg	Note 33	6
02.1.3	Lard, tallow, fish oil, and other animal fats	110 mg/kg	Note 33	6
02.2.1.1	Butter and concentrated butter	440 mg/kg	Note 33	6
02.2.1.2	Margarine and similar products (e.g., butter-margarine blends)	110 mg/kg	Note 33	6
02.2.2	Emulsions containing less than 80% fat (e.g., minarine)	GMP	Note 33	6
02.3	Fat emulsions other than food category 02.2, including mixed and/or flavoured products based on fat emulsions	1100 mg/kg	Note 33	6
02.4	Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of food category 01.7	7000 mg/kg	Note 33	6
03.0	Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet	12000 mg/kg	Note 33	6
04.1.2.1	Frozen fruit	200 mg/kg	Note 33	6
04.1.2.2	Dried fruit	10 mg/kg	Note 33	6
04.1.2.3	Fruit in vinegar, oil, or brine	240 mg/kg	Note 33	6
04.1.2.4	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit	200 mg/kg	Note 33	6
04.1.2.5	Jams, jellies and marmelades	275 mg/kg	Note 33	6
04.1.2.6	Fruit-based spreads (e.g., chutney) excluding products of food category 04.1.2.5	240 mg/kg	Note 33	6
04.1.2.7	Candied fruit	10 mg/kg	Note 33	6
04.1.2.8	Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and coconut milk	7000 mg/kg	Note 33	6
04.1.2.9	Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based desserts	7000 mg/kg	Note 33	6
04.1.2.11	Fruit fillings for pastries	7000 mg/kg	Note 33	6
04.2.1.1	Untreated fresh vegetables, and nuts and seeds	200 mg/kg	Note 33	6
04.2.1.2	Surface-treated fresh vegetables, and nuts and seeds	880 mg/kg	Notes 16 & 33	6
04.2.1.3	Peeled, cut or shredded vegetables, and nuts and seeds	220 mg/kg	Note 33	6
04.2.2.1	Frozen vegetables	5000 mg/kg	Notes 33 & 76	6
04.2.2.2	Dried vegetables, seaweeds, and nuts and seeds	5000 mg/kg	Notes 33 & 76	6
04.2.2.3	Vegetables and seaweeds in vinegar, oil, brine, or soy sauce	2200 mg/kg	Note 33	6
04.2.2.4	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) or retort pouch vegetables	2200 mg/kg	Note 33	6
04.2.2.5	Vegetable, and nut and seed purees and spreads (e.g., peanut butter)	1 mg/kg	Note 33	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	2200 mg/kg	Note 33	6
04.2.2.7	Fermented vegetable products	1 mg/kg	Note 33	6
04.2.2.8	Cooked or fried vegetables and seaweeds	2200 mg/kg	Note 33	6
05.1.1	Cocoa mixes (powders and syrups)	6000 mg/kg	Note 33	6
05.1.2	Cocoa-based spreads, including fillings	2200 mg/kg	Note 33	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	2200 mg/kg	Note 33	6
05.1.4	Imitation chocolate, chocolate substitue products	2200 mg/kg	Note 33	6
05.2	Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougat, etc. other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4	1300 mg/kg	Note 33	6
05.3	Chewing gum	22000 mg/kg	Note 33	6
05.4	Decorations (e.g., for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) and sweet sauces	7000 mg/kg	Note 33	6
06.1	Whole, broken, or flaked grain, including rice	220 mg/kg	Note 33	6
06.2	Flours and starches	9900 mg/kg	Note 33	6
06.3	Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats	1100 mg/kg	Note 33	6
06.4.2	Pre-cooked or dried pastas and noodles and like products	2200 mg/kg	Note 33	6
06.5	Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g., rice pudding, tapioca pudding)	7000 mg/kg	Note 33	6
06.6	Batters (e.g., for breading ro batters for fish or poultry)	3000 mg/kg	Note 33	6
07.1.1	Breads and rolls	9300 mg/kg	Note 33	6
07.1.2	Crackers, excluding sweet crackers	8000 mg/kg	Note 33	6
07.1.3	Other ordinary bakery products (e.g., bagels, pita, English muffins)	8000 mg/kg	Note 33	6
07.1.4	Bread-type products, including bread stuffing and bread crumbs	8000 mg/kg	Note 33	6
07.1.5	Steamed breads and buns	8000 mg/kg	Note 33	6
07.2	Fine bakery wares	8000 mg/kg	Note 33	6
08.1	Fresh meat, poultry, and game	1100 mg/kg	Note 33	6
08.2.1	Non-heat treated processed meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or cuts	1100 mg/kg	Note 33	6
08.2.2	Heat-treated processed meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or cuts	1540 mg/kg	Note 33	6
08.2.3	Frozen processed meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or cuts	1100 mg/kg	Note 33	6
08.3	Processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	1100 mg/kg	Note 33	6
08.4	Edible casings (e.g., sausage casings)	1100 mg/kg	Note 33	6
09.1.1	Fresh fish	GMP	Note 33	6
09.2.1	Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	2200 mg/kg	Note 33	6
09.2.2	Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	2200 mg/kg	Note 33	6
09.2.3	Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	1100 mg/kg	Note 33	6
09.2.4.1	Cooked fish and fish products	1100 mg/kg	Note 33	6
09.2.4.2	Cooked mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	1100 mg/kg	Note 33	6
09.2.5	Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Notes 22 & 33	6
09.3.1	Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms, marinated and/or in jelly	220 mg/kg	Note 33	6
09.3.2	Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms, pickled and/or in brine	1100 mg/kg	Note 33	6
09.3.3	Salmon substitutes, caviar, and other fish roe products	220 mg/kg	Note 33	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	1100 mg/kg	Note 33	6
09.4	Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	2200 mg/kg	Note 33	6
10.2.1	Liquid egg products	2200 mg/kg	Note 33	6
10.2.2	Frozen egg products	1100 mg/kg	Note 33	6
10.2.3	Dried and/or heat coagulated egg products	GMP	Note 33	6
10.3	Preserved eggs, including alkaline, salted, and canned eggs	220 mg/kg	Note 33	6
10.4	Egg-based desserts (e.g., custard)	7000 mg/kg	Note 33	6
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	3300 mg/kg	Notes 33 & 56	6
11.4	Table-top sweeteners, including those containing high-intensity sweeteners	220 mg/kg	Note 33	6
12.1	Salt	5500 mg/kg	Note 33	6
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	4400 mg/kg	Note 33	6
12.4	Mustards	660 mg/kg	Note 33	6
12.5.1	Ready-to-eat soups and broths, including canned, bottled, and frozen	4600 mg/kg	Note 33	6
12.5.2	Mixes for soups and broths	6000 mg/kg	Note 33	6
12.6	Sauces and like products	8000 mg/kg	Note 33	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	Note 33	6
12.9	Protein products	4400 mg/kg	Note 33	6
13.0	Foodstuffs intended for particular nutritional uses	1100 mg/kg	Note 33	6
14.1.1.2	Table waters and soda waters	660 mg/kg	Note 33	6
14.1.2	Fruit and vegetable juices	2500 mg/kg	Notes 33 & 88	6
14.1.3	Fruit and vegetable nectars	2500 mg/kg	Notes 33 & 88	6
14.1.4	Water-based flavoured drinks, including "sport" or "electrolyte" drinks and particulated drinks	12000 mg/kg	Note 33	6
14.1.5	Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa	440 mg/kg	Note 33	6
14.2.1	Beer and malt beverages	12000 mg/kg	Notes 33 & 96	6
14.2.2	Cider and perry	440 mg/kg	Note 33	6
14.2.3	Wines	12000 mg/kg	Notes 33 & 96	6
14.2.4	Fruit wine	220 mg/kg	Note 33	6
14.2.5	Mead	220 mg/kg	Note 33	6
14.2.6.1	Spirituous beverages containing more than 15% alcohol	220 mg/kg	Note 33	6
14.2.6.2	Spirituous beverages containing less than 15% alcohol	12000 mg/kg	Notes 33 & 96	6
15.1	Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes)	1300 mg/kg	Note 33	6
15.2	Processed nuts, including covered nuts and nut mixtures (with e.g., dried fruit)	1100 mg/kg	Note 33	6
15.3	Snacks - fish based	1100 mg/kg	Note 33	6
16.0	Composite foods (e.g., casseroles, meat pies, mincemeat) - foods that could not be placed in categories 01 - 15	2000 mg/kg	Note 33	6

PHOSPHATIDIC ACID, AMMONIUM SALT

Phosphatidic Acid, Ammonium Salt

INS: 442

Function: Emulsifier, Stabilizer

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
01.4	Cream (plain) and the like	GMP		6
01.7	Dairy-based desserts (e.g., ice cream, ice milk, pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt)	5000 mg/kg		6
03.0	Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet	7500 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	10000 mg/kg		6
07.1.1	Breads and rolls	GMP		6

POLYDEXTROSE

Polydextroses A and N

INS: 1200

Function: Bulking Agent, Humectant, Stabilizer, Thickener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.1.1	Milk and buttermilk	GMP		6
01.2	Fermented and renneted milk products (plain), excluding food category 01.1.2 (dairy-based drinks)	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
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
10.2.1	Liquid egg products	GMP		6
10.2.2	Frozen egg products	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
11.3	Honey	GMP		6
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	GMP	Note 51	6

POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE

Polydimethylsiloxane

INS: 900a

Function: Anticaking Agent, Antifoaming Agent

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.7	Dairy-based desserts (e.g., ice cream, ice milk, pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt)	50 mg/kg		6
03.0	Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet	50 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.11	Fruit fillings for pastries	50 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	50 mg/kg		6
05.4	Decorations (e.g., for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) and sweet sauces	50 mg/kg		6
07.0	Bakery wares	10 mg/kg	Notes 3 & 36	6
08.2	Processed meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or cuts	50 mg/kg		6
08.3	Processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	50 mg/kg		6
09.2	Processed fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	50 mg/kg		6
10.2	Egg products	50 mg/kg		6
10.3	Preserved eggs, including alkaline, salted, and canned eggs	50 mg/kg		6
10.4	Egg-based desserts (e.g., custard)	50 mg/kg		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	50 mg/kg		6
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	50 mg/kg		6
11.4	Table-top sweeteners, including those containing high-intensity sweeteners	50 mg/kg		6
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	50 mg/kg		6
12.6.1	Emulsified sauces (e.g., mayonnaise, salad dressing)	50 mg/kg		6
12.6.2	Non-emulsified sauces (e.g., ketchup, cheese sauce, cream sauce, brown gravy)	10 mg/kg		6
12.6.3	Mixes for sauces and gravies	10 mg/kg		6
12.6.4	Clear sauces (e.g., soy sauce, fish sauce)	50 mg/kg		6
12.8	Yeast and like products	50 mg/kg		6
13.0	Foodstuffs intended for particular nutritional uses	50 mg/kg		6
14.1.3	Fruit and vegetable nectars	50 mg/kg		6
14.1.5	Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa	50 mg/kg		6
14.2.6	Spirituous beverages	50 mg/kg		6

POLYGLYCEROL ESTERS OF FATTY ACIDS

Polyglycerol Esters of Fatty Acids

INS: 475

Function: Adjuvant, Crystallization Inhibitor, Emulsifier, Stabilizer, Thickener

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)	5000 mg/kg		6
01.2.1	Fermented milks (plain)	30000 mg/kg		6
01.3.2	Beverage whiteners	5000 mg/kg		6
01.4	Cream (plain) and the like	10000 mg/kg		6
01.5	Milk powder and cream powder	10000 mg/kg		6
01.6.4	Processed cheese	5000 mg/kg		6
01.6.5	Cheese analogues	5000 mg/kg		6
01.7	Dairy-based desserts (e.g., ice cream, ice milk, pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt)	10000 mg/kg		6
02.0	Fats and oils, and fat emulsions (type water-in-oil)	20000 mg/kg		6
03.0	Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet	10000 mg/kg		6
04.1.1.2	Surface-treated fresh fruit	1000 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.8	Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and coconut milk	5000 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.9	Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based desserts	9000 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.11	Fruit fillings for pastries	5000 mg/kg		6
04.2.1.3	Peeled, cut or shredded vegetables, and nuts and seeds	3000 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	5000 mg/kg		6
05.1	Cocoa products and chocolate products including imitations and chocolate substitutes	10000 mg/kg		6
05.2	Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougat, etc. other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4	5000 mg/kg		6
05.3	Chewing gum	20000 mg/kg		6
05.4	Decorations (e.g., for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) and sweet sauces	10000 mg/kg		6
06.1	Whole, broken, or flaked grain, including rice	10000 mg/kg		6
06.2	Flours and starches	10000 mg/kg		6
06.3	Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats	10000 mg/kg		6
06.4.2	Pre-cooked or dried pastas and noodles and like products	20000 mg/kg		6
06.5	Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g., rice pudding, tapioca pudding)	9000 mg/kg		6
06.6	Batters (e.g., for breading ro batters for fish or poultry)	10000 mg/kg		6
07.1.1	Breads and rolls	10000 mg/kg		6
07.1.2	Crackers, excluding sweet crackers	6000 mg/kg		6
07.1.3	Other ordinary bakery products (e.g., bagels, pita, English muffins)	6000 mg/kg		6
07.1.4	Bread-type products, including bread stuffing and bread crumbs	10000 mg/kg		6
07.1.5	Steamed breads and buns	6000 mg/kg		6
07.2	Fine bakery wares	10000 mg/kg		6
08.0	Meat and meat products, including poultry and game	5000 mg/kg		6
09.0	Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	10000 mg/kg		6
10.2	Egg products	5000 mg/kg		6
10.4	Egg-based desserts (e.g., custard)	9000 mg/kg		6
12.5	Soups and broths	5000 mg/kg		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)	10000 mg/kg		6
12.6.3	Mixes for sauces and gravies	10000 mg/kg		6
13.3	Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes, including those for infants and young children	5000 mg/kg		6
13.4	Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction	5000 mg/kg		6
13.6	Food supplements	GMP		6
14.1.4	Water-based flavoured drinks, including "sport" or "electrolyte" drinks and particulated drinks	9000 mg/kg		6
14.1.5	Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa	5000 mg/kg		6
14.2.1	Beer and malt beverages	500 mg/kg		6
14.2.2	Cider and perry	5000 mg/kg		6
14.2.3	Wines	500 mg/kg		6
14.2.4	Fruit wine	500 mg/kg		6
14.2.5	Mead	500 mg/kg		6
14.2.6.1	Spirituous beverages containing more than 15% alcohol	5000 mg/kg		6
14.2.6.2	Spirituous beverages containing less than 15% alcohol	5000 mg/kg		6
15.0	Ready-to-eat savouries	10000 mg/kg		6
16.0	Composite foods (e.g., casseroles, meat pies, mincemeat) - foods that could not be placed in categories 01 - 15	GMP		6

POLYGLYCEROL ESTERS OF INTERESTERIFIED RICINOLEIC ACID

Polyglycerol Esters of Interesterified

INS: 476 Ricinoleic Acid

Function: Emulsifier, Stabilizer

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.4	Cream (plain) and the like	5000 mg/kg		6
01.5	Milk powder and cream powder	10000 mg/kg		6
01.6.4	Processed cheese	5000 mg/kg		6
01.7	Dairy-based desserts (e.g., ice cream, ice milk, pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt)	5000 mg/kg		6
02.1	Fats and oils essentially free from water	10000 mg/kg		6
02.2	Fat emulsions mainly of type water-in-oil	10000 mg/kg		6
02.3	Fat emulsions other than food category 02.2, including mixed and/or flavoured products based on fat emulsions	20000 mg/kg		6
02.4	Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of food category 01.7	10000 mg/kg		6
03.0	Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet	10000 mg/kg		6
04.1.1.2	Surface-treated fresh fruit	1000 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.9	Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based desserts	5000 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.11	Fruit fillings for pastries	5000 mg/kg		6
05.1	Cocoa products and chocolate products including imitations and chocolate substitutes	5000 mg/kg		6
05.2	Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougat, etc. other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4	3000 mg/kg		6
05.3	Chewing gum	20000 mg/kg		6
05.4	Decorations (e.g., for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) and sweet sauces	5000 mg/kg		6
06.0	Cereals and cereal products, including flours and starches from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, excluding bakery wares of food category 07.0	5000 mg/kg		6
07.0	Bakery wares	5000 mg/kg		6
08.0	Meat and meat products, including poultry and game	5000 mg/kg		6
09.0	Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	5000 mg/kg		6
10.2	Egg products	5000 mg/kg		6
10.4	Egg-based desserts (e.g., custard)	5000 mg/kg		6
12.5	Soups and broths	5000 mg/kg		6
12.6	Sauces and like products	5000 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	4000 mg/kg		6
13.3	Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes, including those for infants and young children	5000 mg/kg		6
13.4	Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction	5000 mg/kg		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	5000 mg/kg		6
14.2.1	Beer and malt beverages	1000 mg/kg		6
14.2.2	Cider and perry	1000 mg/kg		6
14.2.3	Wines	1000 mg/kg		6
14.2.4	Fruit wine	1000 mg/kg		6
15.0	Ready-to-eat savouries	1000 mg/kg		6

POLYOXYETHYLENE STEARATES

Polyoxyethylene (8) Stearate	INS: 430
Polyoxyethylene (40) Stearate	INS: 431

Function: Emulsifier, Stabilizer

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
05.3	Chewing gum	20000 mg/kg		6
07.0	Bakery wares	4000 mg/kg		6
14.1.4	Water-based flavoured drinks, including "sport" or "electrolyte" drinks and particulated drinks	500 mg/kg		6
14.2.3	Wines	GMP		6

POLYSORBATES

Polyoxyethylene (20) Sorbitan Monolaurate	INS: 432
Polyoxyethylene (20) Sorbitan Monooleate	INS: 433
Polyoxyethylene (20) Sorbitan Monopalmitate	INS: 434
Polyoxyethylene (20) Sorbitan Monostearate	INS: 435
Polyoxyethylene (20) Sorbitan Tristearate	INS: 436

Function: Antifoaming Agent, Adjuvant, Emulsifier, Foaming Agent, Flour Treatment Agent, Stabilizer

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)	5000 mg/kg		6
01.3.2	Beverage whiteners	5000 mg/kg		6
01.4.2	Sterilized, UHT, whipping or whipped, and reduced fat creams	3000 mg/kg		6
01.4.4	Cream analogues	5000 mg/kg		6
01.5.2	Milk and cream powder analogues	4000 mg/kg		6
01.6.1	Unripened cheese	80 mg/kg	Note 38	6
01.7	Dairy-based desserts (e.g., ice cream, ice milk, pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt)	6000 mg/kg		6
02.0	Fats and oils, and fat emulsions (type water-in-oil)	10000 mg/kg		6
03.0	Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet	1000 mg/kg		6
04.1.1.2	Surface-treated fresh fruit	GMP	Note 16	6
04.1.2.9	Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based desserts	3000 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.11	Fruit fillings for pastries	5000 mg/kg		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	30 mg/kg	Notes 7 & 100	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	3000 mg/kg		6
05.1.1	Cocoa mixes (powders and syrups)	5000 mg/kg		6
05.1.2	Cocoa-based spreads, including fillings	10000 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	10000 mg/kg		6
05.1.4	Imitation chocolate, chocolate substitue products	5000 mg/kg		6
05.2	Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougat, etc. other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4	10000 mg/kg		6
05.3	Chewing gum	20000 mg/kg		6
05.4	Decorations (e.g., for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) and sweet sauces	7000 mg/kg		6
06.5	Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g., rice pudding, tapioca pudding)	3000 mg/kg		6
06.6	Batters (e.g., for breading ro batters for fish or poultry)	5000 mg/kg	Note 2	6
07.1.1	Breads and rolls	500 mg/kg		6
07.1.2	Crackers, excluding sweet crackers	5000 mg/kg	Note 11	6
07.1.3	Other ordinary bakery products (e.g., bagels, pita, English muffins)	10000 mg/kg	Note 11	6
07.1.4	Bread-type products, including bread stuffing and bread crumbs	5000 mg/kg	Note 11	6
07.1.5	Steamed breads and buns	5000 mg/kg	Note 11	6
07.2	Fine bakery wares	5000 mg/kg		6
08.2	Processed meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or cuts	10000 mg/kg		6
08.3	Processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	10000 mg/kg		6
08.4	Edible casings (e.g., sausage casings)	1500 mg/kg		6
10.4	Egg-based desserts (e.g., custard)	5000 mg/kg		6
12.1	Salt	10 mg/kg		6
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	4600 mg/kg		6
12.5	Soups and broths	1000 mg/kg		6
12.6.1	Emulsified sauces (e.g., mayonnaise, salad dressing)	5000 mg/kg		6
12.6.2	Non-emulsified sauces (e.g., ketchup, cheese sauce, cream sauce, brown gravy)	4600 mg/kg		6
12.6.3	Mixes for sauces and gravies	5000 mg/kg		6
12.6.4	Clear sauces (e.g., soy sauce, fish sauce)	4600 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	2000 mg/kg		6
12.8	Yeast and like products	4 mg/kg		6
12.9	Protein products	4000 mg/kg	Note 15	6
13.3	Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes, including those for infants and young children	1000 mg/kg		6
13.4	Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction	1000 mg/kg		6
13.5	Dietetic foods (e.g., supplementary foods for dietary use) excluding products of food categories 13.1 - 13.4	360 mg/dos		6
13.6	Food supplements	790 mg/kg	Note 101	6
14.1.4.1	Carbonated drinks	500 mg/kg		6
14.1.4.2	Non-carbonated, including punches and ades	500 mg/kg		6
14.1.4.3	Concentrates (liquid or solid) for drinks	45000 mg/kg	Note 102	6
14.2.6	Spirituous beverages	120 mg/kg		6
16.0	Composite foods (e.g., casseroles, meat pies, mincemeat) - foods that could not be placed in categories 01 - 15	2000 mg/kg		6

PONCEAU 4R

Ponceau 4R

INS: 124

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
01.2.1.1	Fermented milks (plain), not heat-treated after fermentation	150 mg/kg		6
01.2.1.2	Fermented milks (plain), heat-treated after fermentation	48 mg/kg	Note 12	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
02.4	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	300 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	100 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
04.2.2.5	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	200 mg/kg		6
05.1	Cocoa products and chocolate products including imitations and chocolate substitutes	150 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
07.0	Bakery wares	200 mg/kg		6
08.1	Fresh meat, poultry, and game	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
08.2	Processed meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or cuts	30 mg/kg		6
08.3.1.1	Cured (including salted) non-heat treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	250 mg/kg		6
08.3.1.2	Cured (including salted) and dried non-heat treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	200 mg/kg		6
08.3.1.3	Fermented non-heat treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	30 mg/kg		6
08.3.2	Heat-treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	200 mg/kg		6
08.3.3	Frozen processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	200 mg/kg		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		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)	100 mg/kg		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	200 mg/kg		6
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	200 mg/kg		6
11.4	Table-top sweeteners, including those containing high-intensity sweeteners	200 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
12.7	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
12.9	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
14.1.2.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit juice	GMP		6
14.1.2.2	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) vegetable juice	GMP		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

POTASSIUM ACETATES