(Presented in Table 1 Format Only)
Additives Permitted for Use Under Specified
Conditions in Certain Food Categories
or Individual Food Items
CHLORINE
Chlorine
INS: 925
Function: Flour Treatment Agent
Food Cat. No. |
Food Category |
Max Level |
Comments |
Step |
06.2 |
Flours and starches |
2500 mg/kg |
Note 87 |
8 |
Chlorine Dioxide
INS: 926
Function: Flour Treatment Agent
Food Cat. No. |
Food Category |
Max Level |
Comments |
Step |
06.2 |
Flours and starches |
2500 mg/kg |
Note 87 |
8 |
Cyclodextrin, Beta-
INS: 459
Function: Stabilizer, Binder
Food Cat. No. |
Food Category |
Max Level |
Comments |
Step |
05.3 |
Chewing gum |
20000 mg/kg |
|
8 |
14.1.4 |
Water-based flavoured drinks, including sport or
electrolyte drinks and particulated drinks |
500 mg/kg |
|
8 |
Calcium Disodium Ethylene Diamine Tetra INS: 385
Disodium Ethylene Diamine Tetra Acetate INS: 386 Acetate
Function: Antioxidant, Preservative, Sequestrant
Food Cat. No. |
Food Category |
Max Level |
Comments |
Step |
02.2.1.2 |
Margarine and similar products (e.g.,
butter-margarineblends) |
75 mg/kg |
Note 21 |
5/8 |
02.2.2 |
Emulsions containing less than 80% fat (e.g.,
minarine) |
100 mg/kg |
Note 21 |
8 |
04.1.2.2 |
Dried fruit |
265 mg/kg |
Note 21 |
8 |
04.1.2.5 |
Jams, jellies and marmelades |
130 mg/kg |
Note 21 |
8 |
04.1.2.6 |
Fruit-based spreads (e.g., chutney) excluding products of food
category 04.1.2.5 |
100 mg/kg |
Note 21 |
8 |
04.1.2.11 |
Fruit fillings for pastries |
650 mg/kg |
Note 21 |
8 |
04.2.2.2 |
Dried vegetables, seaweeds, and nuts and seeds |
800 mg/kg |
Notes 21& 64 |
8 |
04.2.2.3 |
Vegetables and seaweeds in vinegar, oil, brine, or soy
sauce |
250 mg/kg |
Note 21 |
8 |
04.2.2.4 |
Canned or bottled (pasteurized) or retort pouch
vegetables |
365 mg/kg |
Note 21 |
8 |
04.2.2.5 |
Vegetable, and nut and seed purees and spreads (e.g., peanut
butter) |
250 mg/kg |
Note 21 |
8 |
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 |
80 mg/kg |
Note 21 |
8 |
04.2.2.7 |
Fermented vegetable products |
250 mg/kg |
Note 21 |
8 |
04.2.2.8 |
Cooked or fried vegetables and seaweeds |
250 mg/kg |
Note 21 |
8 |
05.1.2 |
Cocoa-based spreads, including fillings |
50 mg/kg |
Note 21 |
8 |
06.5 |
Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g., rice pudding, tapioca
pudding) |
315 mg/kg |
Note 21 |
5/8 |
08.3.2 |
Heat-treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game
products |
35 mg/kg |
Note 21 |
8 |
09.2.1 |
Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including
mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms |
75 mg/kg |
Note 21 |
8 |
09.2.2 |
Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products,
including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms |
75 mg/kg |
Note 21 |
8 |
09.3.2 |
Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and
echinoderms, pickled and/or in brine |
250 mg/kg |
Note 21 |
8 |
09.4 |
Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish
products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms |
340 mg/kg |
Note 21 |
8 |
10.2.3 |
Dried and/or heat coagulated egg products |
200 mg/kg |
Notes 21 & 47 |
8 |
12.2 |
Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and
condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles) |
70 mg/kg |
Note 21 |
8 |
12.4 |
Mustards |
75 mg/kg |
Note 21 |
8 |
12.6.1 |
Emulsified sauces (e.g., mayonnaise, salad dressing) |
100 mg/kg |
Note 21 |
8 |
12.6.2 |
Non-emulsified sauces (e.g., ketchup, cheese sauce, cream
sauce, brown gravy) |
75 mg/kg |
Note 21 |
8 |
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 |
Note 21 |
8 |
13.6 |
Food supplements |
150 mg/kg |
Note 21 |
8 |
14.1.4.1 |
Carbonated drinks |
200 mg/kg |
Note 21 |
8 |
14.1.4.2 |
Non-carbonated, including punches and ades |
200 mg/kg |
Note 21 |
8 |
14.1.4.3 |
Concentrates (liquid or solid) for drinks |
100 mg/kg |
Note 21 |
8 |
14.1.5 |
Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other
hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa |
35 mg/kg |
Note 21 |
8 |
14.2 |
Alcoholic beverages, including alcohol-free and low-alcoholic
counterparts |
25 mg/kg |
Note 21 |
8 |
Formic Acid
INS: 236
Function: Preservative
Food Cat. No. |
Food Category |
Max Level |
Comments |
Step |
12.6 |
Sauces and like products |
200 mg/kg |
Note 25 |
8 |
14.1.4 |
Water-based flavoured drinks, including sport or
electrolyte drinks and particulated drinks |
100 mg/kg |
Note 25 |
8 |
Gallate, Propyl
INS: 310
Function: Antioxidant
Food Cat. No. |
Food Category |
Max Level |
Comments |
Step |
01.5.1 |
Milk powder and cream powder (plain) |
200 mg/kg |
Note 75 |
8 |
01.7 |
Dairy-based desserts (e.g., ice cream, ice milk, pudding,
fruit or flavoured yoghurt) |
90 mg/kg |
Note 2 |
5/8 |
02.1 |
Fats and oils essentially free from water |
200 mg/kg |
|
8 |
02.2.1.2 |
Margarine and similar products (e.g., butter-margarine
blends) |
200 mg/kg |
|
8 |
02.2.2 |
Emulsions containing less than 80% fat (e.g.,
minarine) |
100 mg/kg |
|
8 |
02.3 |
Fat emulsions other than food category 02.2, including mixed
and/or flavoured products based on fat emulsions |
100 mg/kg |
|
5/8 |
02.4 |
Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of
food category 01.7 |
50 mg/kg |
|
8 |
04.1.2.9 |
Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based
desserts |
90 mg/kg |
Note 2 |
5/8 |
04.2.2.2 |
Dried vegetables, seaweeds, and nuts and seeds |
50 mg/kg |
Note 76 |
8 |
05.1 |
Cocoa products and chocolate products including imitations and
chocolate substitutes |
200 mg/kg |
Note 15 |
8 |
05.2 |
Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougat, etc.
other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4 |
200 mg/kg |
Note 15 |
8 |
05.3 |
Chewing gum |
1000 mg/kg |
|
8 |
05.4 |
Decorations (e.g., for fine bakery wares), toppings
(non-fruit) and sweet sauces |
200 mg/kg |
Note 15 |
8 |
06.1 |
Whole, broken, or flaked grain, including rice |
100 mg/kg |
|
8 |
06.3 |
Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats |
200 mg/kg |
Note 15 |
8 |
06.4.2 |
Pre-cooked or dried pastas and noodles and like
products |
100 mg/kg |
|
5/8 |
06.5 |
Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g., rice pudding, tapioca
pudding) |
90 mg/kg |
Note 2 |
5/8 |
07.1.3 |
Other ordinary bakery products (e.g., bagels, pita, English
muffins) |
100 mg/kg |
Note 15 |
8 |
07.2.3 |
Mixes for fine bakery wares (e.g., cakes, pancakes) |
200 mg/kg |
|
8 |
08.2 |
Processed meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or
cuts |
200 mg/kg |
Note 15 |
8 |
08.3 |
Processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game
products |
200 mg/kg |
|
8 |
09.2.5 |
Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish
products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms |
100 mg/kg |
Note 15 |
8 |
10.4 |
Egg-based desserts (e.g., custard) |
90 mg/kg |
Note 2 |
5/8 |
12.2 |
Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and
condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles) |
200 mg/kg |
Note 15 |
8 |
12.5.2 |
Mixes for soups and broths |
200 mg/kg |
Note 15 |
8 |
12.6 |
Sauces and like products |
200 mg/kg |
Note 15 |
5 |
13.6 |
Food supplements |
400 mg/kg |
|
8 |
14.1.4 |
Water-based flavoured drinks, including sport or
electrolyte drinks and particulated drinks |
1000 mg/kg |
Note 15 |
5/8 |
15.0 |
Ready-to-eat savouries |
200 mg/kg |
Note 15 |
8 |
Hexamethylene Tetramine
INS: 239
Function: Antioxidant
Food Cat. No. |
Food Category |
Max Level |
Comments |
Step |
01.6.2.1 |
Total ripened cheese, includes rind |
25 mg/kg |
Note 66 |
5/8 |
Isopropyl Citrates
INS: 384
Function: Antioxidant, Preservative, Sequestrant
Food Cat. No. |
Food Category |
Max Level |
Comments |
Step |
02.1.1 |
Butter oil, anhydrous milkfat, ghee |
100 mg/kg |
Note 77 |
8 |
02.1.2 |
Vegetable oils and fats |
100 mg/kg |
|
8 |
02.1.3 |
Lard, tallow, fish oil, and other animal fats |
200 mg/kg |
|
8 |
02.2.1.2 |
Margarine and similar products (e.g., butter-margarine
blends) |
200 mg/kg |
|
9 |
02.2.2 |
Emulsions containing less than 80% fat (e.g.,
minarine) |
100 mg/kg |
|
8 |
08.1.2 |
Fresh meat, poultry, and game, comminuted |
200 mg/kg |
|
8 |
08.2.1.2 |
Cured (including salted) and dried non-heat treated processed
meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or cuts |
200 mg/kg |
|
8 |
08.3.1.2 |
Cured (including salted) and dried non-heat treated processed
comminuted meat, poultry, and game products |
200 mg/kg |
|
5/8 |
14.1.4 |
Water-based flavoured drinks, including sport or
electrolyte drinks and particulated drinks |
200 mg/kg |
|
8 |
Microcrystalline Wax
INS: 905ci
Function: Antifoaming Agent, Bulking Agent, Glazing Agent
Food Cat. No. |
Food Category |
Max Level |
Comments |
Step |
05.2 |
Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougat, etc.
other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4 |
GMP |
Note 3 |
5/8 |
05.3 |
Chewing gum |
20000 mg/kg |
Note 3 |
8 |
Pimaricin
INS: 235
Function: Preservative
Food Cat. No. |
Food Category |
Max Level |
Comments |
Step |
01.6 |
Cheese |
40 mg/kg |
Notes 3 & 80 |
8 |
08.2.1.2 |
Cured (including salted) and dried non-heat treated processed
meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or cuts |
6 mg/kg |
|
5/8 |
08.3.1.2 |
Cured (including salted) and dried non-heat treated processed
comminuted meat, poultry, and game products |
20 mg/kg |
Notes 3 & 81 |
8 |
Polyethylene Glycol
INS: 1521
Function: Adjuvant, Antifoaming Agent, Carrier Solvent, Emulsifier, Flavour Enhancer, Glazing Agent, Release Agent, Stabilizer, Thickener
Food Cat. No. |
Food Category |
Max Level |
Comments |
Step |
04.1.1.2 |
Surface-treated fresh fruit |
GMP |
|
8 |
05.3 |
Chewing gum |
20000 mg/kg |
|
8 |
11.4 |
Table-top sweeteners, including those containing
high-intensity sweeteners |
10000 mg/kg |
|
8 |
13.6 |
Food supplements |
70000 mg/kg |
|
8 |
14.1.4 |
Water-based flavoured drinks, including sport or
electrolyte drinks and particulated drinks |
1000 mg/kg |
|
8 |
Propylene Glycol Esters of Fatty Acids
INS: 477
Function: Emulsifier, Stabilizer
Food Cat. No. |
Food Category |
Max Level |
Comments |
Step |
01.1.2 |
Dairy-based drinks, flavoured and/or fermented (e.g.,
chocolate milk, cocoa, eggnog, drinking yoghurt, whey-based drinks) |
5000 mg/kg |
|
8 |
01.3.2 |
Beverage whiteners |
1000 mg/kg |
|
8 |
01.4.4 |
Cream analogues |
5000 mg/kg |
Note 86 |
8 |
01.5.2 |
Milk and cream powder analogues |
100000 mg/kg |
|
8 |
01.7 |
Dairy-based desserts (e.g., ice cream, ice milk, pudding,
fruit or flavoured yoghurt) |
5000 mg/kg |
|
8 |
02.1 |
Fats and oils essentially free from water |
10000 mg/kg |
|
8 |
02.2.1.2 |
Margarine and similar products (e.g., butter-margarine
blends) |
20000 mg/kg |
|
8 |
02.2.2 |
Emulsions containing less than 80% fat (e.g.,
minarine) |
20000 mg/kg |
|
8 |
02.3 |
Fat emulsions other than food category 02.2, including mixed
and/or flavoured products based on fat emulsions |
30000 mg/kg |
|
8 |
02.4 |
Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of
food category 01.7 |
10000 mg/kg |
|
8 |
03.0 |
Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet |
5000 mg/kg |
|
8 |
04.1.2.8 |
Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and
coconut milk |
40000 mg/kg |
|
5/8 |
04.1.2.9 |
Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based
desserts |
40000 mg/kg |
|
5/8 |
04.1.2.11 |
Fruit fillings for pastries |
40000 mg/kg |
|
5/8 |
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 |
|
8 |
05.2 |
Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougat, etc.
other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4 |
5000 mg/kg |
|
8 |
05.3 |
Chewing gum |
20000 mg/kg |
|
8 |
05.4 |
Decorations (e.g., for fine bakery wares), toppings
(non-fruit) and sweet sauces |
40000 mg/kg |
|
5/8 |
06.5 |
Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g., rice pudding, tapioca
pudding) |
40000 mg/kg |
|
5/8 |
07.0 |
Bakery wares |
15000 mg/kg |
Notes 11 & 72 |
8 |
10.4 |
Egg-based desserts (e.g., custard) |
40000 mg/kg |
|
5/8 |
11.2 |
Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple
syrup) |
5000 mg/kg |
|
8 |
13.3 |
Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes,
including those for infants and young children |
5000 mg/kg |
Note 83 |
5/8 |
13.4 |
Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight
reduction |
5000 mg/kg |
|
5/8 |
14.1.4 |
Water-based flavoured drinks, including sport or
electrolyte drinks and particulated drinks |
500 mg/kg |
|
5/8 |
Quillaia Extract
INS: 999
Function: Foaming Agent
Food Cat. No. |
Food Category |
Max Level |
Comments |
Step |
14.1.4 |
Water-based flavoured drinks, including sport or
electrolyte drinks and particulated drinks |
500 mg/kg |
|
8 |
Stannous Chloride
INS: 512
Function: Antioxidant, Colour Retention Agent, Preservative, Sequestrant
Food Cat. No. |
Food Category |
Max Level |
Comments |
Step |
04.1.2.4 |
Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit |
20 mg/kg |
Note 43 |
8 |
04.2.2.4 |
Canned or bottled (pasteurized) or retort pouch
vegetables |
25 mg/kg |
Note 43 |
8 |
14.1.2.1 |
Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit juice |
8 mg/kg |
Note 43 |
8 |
14.1.4 |
Water-based flavoured drinks, including sport or
electrolyte drinks and particulated drinks |
20 mg/kg |
Note 43 |
8 |
Note 1: As adipic acid
Note 2: On dry ingredient, dry weight, dry mix or concentrate basis.
Note 3: Surface treatment.
Note 4: For decoration, stamping, marking or branding the product.
Note 5: Used in raw materials for manufacture of the finished food.
Note 6: As aluminium.
Note 7: Use level not in finished food.
Note 8: As bixin.
Note 9: As total bixin or norbixin.
Note 10: As ascorbyl stearate.
Note 11: Flour basis.
Note 12: Carryover from flavouring substances.
Note 13: As benzoic acid.
Note 14: On amount of milk used.
Note 15: Fat or oil basis.
Note 16: Use level in chicken feed to color chicken skins or eggs.
Note 17: As cyclamic acid.
Note 18: Added level; residue not detected in ready-to-eat food.
Note 19: Used in cocoa fat; use level on ready-to-eat basis.
Note 20: On total amount of stabilizers, thickeners and/or gums.
Note 21: As anhydrous calcium disodium EDTA.
Note 22: NOT USED.
Note 23: As iron.
Note 24: As anhydrous sodium ferrocyanide.
Note 25: As formic acid.
Note 26: NOT USED.
Note 27: As p-hydroxybenzoic acid.
Note 28: ADI conversion: if a typical preparation contains 0.025 mg/U, then the ADI of 33,000 U/kg bw becomes:
[(33000 U/kg bw) ×(0.025 mg/U) x (1 mg/1000 mg)] = 0.825 mg/kg bwNote 29: Reporting basis not specified.
Note 30:As residual NO3 ion.
Note 31: Of the mash used.
Note 32: As residual NO2 ion.
Note 33: As phosphorus.
Note 34: Anhydrous basis.
Note 35: Level in cocoa nibs.
Note 36: Residual level.
Note 37: As weight of nonfat milk solids.
Note 38: Level in creaming mixture.
Note 39: Only when product contains butter or other fats and oils.
Note 40: Use in packing medium only.
Note 41: Use in breading or batter coatings only.
Note 42: As sorbic acid
Note 43: As tin.
Note 44: As residual SO2.
Note 45: As tartaric acid.
Note 46: As thiodipropionic acid.
Note 47: On egg yolk weight, dry basis.
Note 48: For olives only.
Note 49: For use on citrus fruits only.
Note 50: For use in fish roe only.
Note 51: For use in herbs and salt substitutes only.
Note 52: For use in butter only.
Note 53: For use in coatings only.
Note 54: For use in dried products only.
Note 55: Added level.
Note 56: Provided starch is not present.
Note 57: GMP is 1 part benzoyl peroxide and not more than 6 parts of the subject additive by weight.
Note 58: As calcium.
Note 59: Use as packing gas.
Note 60: If used as a carbonating agent, the CO2 in the finished wine shall not exceed 39.2 mg/kg.
Note 61: For use in minced fish only.
Note 62: As copper.
Note 63: On amount of dairy ingredients.
Note 64: Level added to dry beans; 200 mg/kg in ready-to-eat food, anhydrous basis.
Note 65: Carryover from nutrient preparations.
Note 66: As formaldehyde. For use in provolone cheese only.
Note 67: Carryover from use in casings.
Note 68: For use in natural mineral waters only.
Note 69: Use as carbonating agent.
Note 70: As the acid.
Note 71: Calcium, potassium and sodium salts only.
Note 72: Ready-to-eat basis.
Note 73: Except whole fish.
Note 74: Use level for deep orange coloured cheeses; 25 mg/kg for orange coloured cheeses; 10 mg/kg for normal coloured cheeses.
Note 75: Use in milk powder for vending machines only.
Note 76: Use in potatoes only.
Note 77: As mono-isopropyl citrate.
Note 78: NOT USED
Note 79: NOT USED
Note 80: Equivalent to 2 mg/dm2 surface application to a maximum depth of 5 mm.
Note 81: Equivalent to 1 mg/dm2 surface application to a maximum depth of 5 mm.
Note 82: For use in shrimp; 6000 mg/kg for Crangon crangon and Crangon vulgaris.
Note 83: Excluding foods for infants and young children.
Note 84: Use in alcohol-free beer only.
Note 85: Except for use in coolers at 1000 mg/kg.
Note 86: Use in whipped dessert toppings other than cream only.
Note 87: Treatment level.