24 - 2019 - TT-BYT - Eng
24 - 2019 - TT-BYT - Eng
24 - 2019 - TT-BYT - Eng
CIRCULAR
Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No. 15/2018/ND-CP dated February 02, 2018 on
elaboration of some articles of the law of food safety;
Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No. 75/2017/ND-CP dated June 20, 2017 on functions,
tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Health;
The Minister of Health promulgates the Circular guiding the management and use of food
additives.
Chapter I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
This Circular provides for the list of food additives; use and management of food additives and
responsibilities of relevant regulatory bodies, organizations and individuals.
This Circular is applicable to organizations and individuals involving in manufacture, sale and
import of food and food additives in Vietnam and relevant regulatory bodies, organizations and
individuals.
Article 3. Definitions
In this Circular, the undermentioned terms and abbreviations shall be defined as follows:
2. “JECFA” stands for the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives.
3. “flavoring” (food additive) is a substance added to food to affect, change or increase food
flavor. Flavorings include flavoring substances, natural flavoring complexes; flavorings used in
heat processing or smoke flavorings and their mixtures; may contain non-flavoring food
ingredients with conditions prescribed in section 3.5 of the National Standard TCVN 6417:2010
guiding the use of flavorings. Flavorings do not include substances that simply create sweetness,
sourness or saltiness (such as sugar, vinegar or salt); and flavor enhancers that are considered
food additives in the CAC/GL 36-1989 Codex Class Names and the International Numbering
System for Food Additives.
5. “acceptable daily intake” (“ADI”) means the daily intake of a food additive over a lifetime
without an appreciable risk to human health and is expressed as mg per kg of body weight.
6. “acceptable daily intake not specified/not limited” means the daily intake of a food additive
with very low toxicity based on available chemical, biochemical and toxicological data and other
factors. Such intake is maintained at an amount necessary to achieve the desired effects and
acceptable without an appreciable risk to human health.
7. “maximum use level” (“ML”) means the highest amount of a food additive that is determined
to be functionally effective for one kind of food or food group; usually expressed as mg of
additive per kg of food or mg of additive per liter of food.
8. “mixed food additive with new uses” means a food additive containing at least two (02)
additives with its uses different from those of its components.
Chapter II
The list of permitted food additives shall be compiled on the basis of:
2. Compliance with international standards and regulations on management and use of food
additives
2. Enclosed with this Circular is Appendix 2A and Appendix 2B containing the maximum use
level of food additives.
3. Enclosed with this Circular is Appendix 3 containing the list of permitted food additives and
food using food additives according to GMP.
4. Flavorings include the flavorings evaluated and confirmed as safe for expected intakes or ADI
by JECFA. These flavorings shall satisfy corresponding technical requirements on
recognizability and purity; and comply with regulations of the National Standard TCVN
6417:2010 guiding the use of flavorings and specific provisions of this Circular.
1. Enclosed with this Circular is Appendix 4 containing the classification and description of food
groups to identify the food groups to which Appendix 2A and Appendix 3 are applied.
2. Food classification prescribed in Clause 1 herein shall not be used to regulate product naming
and goods labeling.
a) If a food additive is permitted for use in one food group, it may also be used for subgroups of
such group unless otherwise provided for;
b) If a food additive is permitted for use in one subgroup, it may also be used for subordinate
groups of such subgroup or for individual foods of such subgroup unless otherwise provided for.
Chapter III
a) The food additive is permitted for use and is used for the right food;
b) The amount of food additive used does not exceed the maximum use level applied to one kind
of food or food group;
c) Food additives shall be used with the minimum amount necessary to produce the desired
technical effects.
2. Food additives shall only be used if such use could produce the desired effects without
harming human health or deceiving consumers. Food additives shall only be used for one or
more than one of their function to achieve the following purposes in case other options more
economically and technologically effective to achieve such purposes are not available.
a) Maintenance of nutritional value of food. Products for special uses where food additives are
used as food ingredients (e.g. dietary sugar) are not regulated by this Circular;
c) Support for manufacture and transport but not for the purpose of hiding the effects resulted
from use of low quality ingredients or improper manufacturing/technical practice.
3. Food additives must satisfy technical and food safety requirements according to the following
documents:
b) National standards in case the regulations prescribed in Point a herein are not yet applicable;
c) CAC and JECFA standards and regional and foreign standards in case the regulations
prescribed in Points a and b herein are not yet applicable;
d) Manufacturer standards in case the regulations prescribed in Points a, b and c herein are not
yet applicable.
4. Besides appearing in food when used in manufacture, food additives may also appear in food
when the ingredients or components for manufacture of such food have already contained food
additives. Such cases must comply with the regulations of Article 9 herein.
Article 8. Rules for determination of maximum use level of food additives according to
Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) regulations
1. Food additives shall be used with the minimum amount necessary to produce the desired
technical effects.
2. The amount of food additives used in manufacture must not alter the nature of food or food
manufacturing technology.
3. Food additives must ensure quality and safety for use in food and shall be processed and
transported in the same way as food ingredients.
Article 9. Food additives brought into food by the ingredients or components for
manufacture of such food
1. The food additives brought into food by the ingredients or components for manufacture of
such food must satisfy the following requirements:
b) Not exceeding maximum use level applied to use in ingredients or components (including in
food additives);
c) The food containing food additives that originate from its ingredients or components shall
ensure that the amount of such food additives do not exceed the maximum use level applied to
the ingredients or components for manufacture of such food according to manufacture
procedures and technology.
2. Food additives that are not permitted for use in ingredients or components for food
manufacture may be used in or added to such ingredients or components if such food additives
are manufactured or imported for internal use within an enterprise or the importing and
distributing enterprises have signed a contract with food manufacturers. Such cases must satisfy
the following requirements:
a) Such ingredients or components shall be used to manufacture only one kind of food;
b) The food additives must be permitted for use and the use amount shall not exceed the
maximum use level applied to that kind of food;
c) The food additives must have their product declarations registered according to Clause 2 of
Article 11 herein.
3. Additives brought into food by ingredients or components for manufacture of such food are
not permitted for the following product groups, unless such additives are stipulated in Appendix
2A, Appendix 2B and Appendix 3 enclosed with this Circular:
a) Formula products for newborns and infants, formula products for special medical uses for
newborns (food group code: 13.1);
b) Supplementary food for newborns and infants (food group code: 13.2).
4. If a food additive is brought into food by ingredients or components for manufacture of such
food but it does not constitute the uses of the finished product, it does not have to be listed in the
composition of such food.
Article 10. Requirements for dividing, filling, repacking and mixing of food additives
1. Requirements for dividing, filling and repacking of food additives are as follows:
a) Dividing, filling and repacking of food additives shall only be carried out upon the written
agreement of the organizations/individuals manufacturing or holding responsibilities for the
products;
b) Dividing, filling and repacking of food additives must not affect product quality and safety or
cause any risk to human health;
c) Labels of food additives that have been divided, filled or repacked must include the date of
such dividing, filling or repacking. The expiry date shall be determined based on the date of
manufacture on the original labels of the food additives prior to dividing, filling or repacking;
d) Dividing, filling and repacking of food additives shall comply with other regulations relating
to manufacture and sale of food additives.
2. Requirements for mixing of food additives and mixed food additives are as follows:
a) Food additives shall only be mixed when such mixing does not cause any risk to human
health;
b) Ingredient quantity of each food additive shall be included in the product composition;
c) Guidelines for maximum use level, the food using food additives and functions of food
additives shall be provided;
d) Mixing of food additives shall comply with other regulations relating to manufacture and sale
of food additives.
Chapter IV
1. Food additives must be declared before being distributed on the market, except for the food
additives prescribed in Clause 2 of this Article and Clause 2 of Article 4 of the Government’s
Decree No. 15/2018/ND-CP dated February 02, 2018 on elaboration of some articles of the law
of food safety. Procedures for product declaration shall be carried out according to Article 5 of
the Decree No. 15/2018/ND-CP and Point a of Clause 1 of Article 3 of the Government’s Decree
No. 155/2018/ND-CP dated November 12, 2018 on amendments to some articles related to
business conditions under state management of the Ministry of Health.
2. Mixed food additives with new uses and food additives not included in the list of permitted
food additives prescribed in this Circular must have their declarations registered with the
Vietnam Food Administration and Ministry of Health before official use or distribution on the
market. Procedures for registration of product declaration shall be carried out according to
Articles 7 and 8 of the Government’s Decree No. 15/2018/ND-CP dated February 02, 2018 on
elaboration of some articles of the law of food safety.
Food additive labeling shall be carried out according to the Government’s Decree No.
43/2017/ND-CP dated April 14, 2017 on goods labeling and relevant documents.
Administrative violations relating to food safety in manufacture, sale and use of food additives
shall be handled according to the Government’s Decree No. 115/2018/ND-CP dated September
04, 2018 on penalties for administrative violations against regulations on food safety and
relevant documents. In case there are aggravating circumstances in a violation as prescribed in
the Law on Handling Administrative Violations, competent persons shall consider and decide to
impose the fine up to the highest and revocation of the certificate of registered product
declaration.
Chapter V
IMPLEMENTING PROVISIONS
1. Food additives and food products using food additives that have been granted the certificate of
declaration of conformity or certificate of declaration of conformity with the food safety
regulations before the date this Circular comes into effect may continue to be used until the
expiration dates of such certificates or products, excluding the cases where there are food safety
warnings.
2. Food additives and food products using food additives that have completed product
declaration or have been granted the certificate of product declaration registration before the date
this Circular comes into effect, if not conforming with the regulations of this Circular, may
continue to be used until the expiration dates of such products, excluding the cases where there
are food safety warnings.
In case the documents referred to herein are amended or superseded, the new documents shall be
applied.
1. The Vietnam Food Administration shall be responsible for taking charge and cooperating with
relevant competent authorities in organizing the implementation and inspection of the
implementation of this Circular throughout the country.
2. The Vietnam Food Administration shall propose inspection of and amendments to this
Circular every two (02) years or ad hoc per management requirements on the basis of updates of
CAC standards and requests of organizations and individuals involving in manufacture and sale
of food additives and food.
3. Organizations and individuals involving in manufacture, sale and import of food additives and
food must satisfy the following requirements:
a) Manufacture, sale, import and use of food additives shall be carried out according to
regulations of this Circular;
b) When a food additive is found to have violated a regulation of this Circular, manufacture, sale
and import of such food additive shall be suspended and relevant competent authorities shall be
notified of such violation;
c) Food additives that violate safety regulations shall be revoked and handled according to
applicable regulations.
d) In case of request for addition of a food additive or kind of food not provided for in this
Circular, organizations and individuals must provide scientific proofs for the safety of such
product for consideration.
4. Head of Office of the Ministry of Health, chief inspector of the Ministry of Health, heads of
departments and affiliates of the Ministry of Health and relevant regulatory bodies, organizations
and individuals shall be responsible for the implementation of this Circular.
During the implementation of this Circular, should any problem arise, regulatory bodies,
organizations and individuals shall promptly report to the Ministry of Health (Vietnam Food
Administration) for consideration and/or resolution./.
APPENDIX 1
APPENDIX 2A
(Enclosed with the Circular No. 24/2019/TT-BYT dated August 30, 2019)
CURCUMIN
INS Name of additive
100(i) Curcumin
ML
Food
Food category (mg/ Remark
category No.
kg)
01.1.4 Flavored fluid milk drinks 150 52, 402
12.5 Soups and broths 50 99
RIBOFLAVINS
INS Name of additive
101(i) Riboflavin, synthetic
101(ii) Riboflavin 5'-phosphate sodium
101(iii) Riboflavin from Bacillus subtilis
ML
Food
Food category (mg/ Remark
category No.
kg)
01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 300 52
01.3.2 Beverage whiteners 300
01.5.2 Milk and cream powder analogues 300
01.6.1 Unripened cheese 300
01.6.2.1 Ripened cheese (including rind) 300
01.6.2.2 Rind of ripened cheese 300
01.6.4 Processed cheese 300
01.6.5 Cheese analogues 300
01.7 Dairy-based desserts (e.g. pudding, fruit or flavored yogurt) 300
02.2.2 Fat spreads, dairy fat spreads and blended spreads 300
02.3 Fat emulsions mainly of type oil-in-water, including mixed 300
and/or flavoured products based on fat emulsions
02.4 Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of 300
food category 01.7
03.0 Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet 500
04.1.1.2 Surface-treated fresh fruit 300 4 & 16
04.1.2.4 Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit 300 267
04.1.2.5 Jams, jellies, marmelades 200
04.1.2.6 Fruit-based spreads (e.g. chutney) excluding products of food 500
category 04.1.2.5
04.1.2.7 Candied fruit 300
04.1.2.8 Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and 300 182
coconut milk
04.1.2.9 Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based 300
desserts
04.1.2.10 Fermented fruit products 500
04.1.2.11 Fruit fillings for pastries 300
04.2.1.2 Surface-treated fresh vegetables (including mushrooms and 300 4 & 16
fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera),
seaweeds, and nuts and seeds
04.2.2.3 Vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, 500
pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), and seaweeds in vinegar,
oil, brine, or soybean sauce
04.2.2.6 Vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, 300 92
pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweed, and nut and seed
pulps and preparations (e.g. vegetable desserts and sauces,
candied vegetables) other than food category 04.2.2.5
04.2.2.7 Fermented vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots 500
and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera) and seaweed
products, excluding fermented soybean products of food
categories 06.8.6, 06.8.7, 12.9.1, 12.9.2.1 and 12.9.2.3
05.1.5 Imitation chocolate, chocolate substitute products 1000
05.2 Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougats, etc. 1000 XS309R
other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4
05.3 Chewing gum 1000
05.4 Decorations (e.g. for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) 1000
and sweet sauces
06.3 Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats 300
06.4.3 Pre-cooked pastas and noodles and like products 300 153
06.5 Cereal- and starch-based desserts (e.g. rice pudding, tapioca 300
pudding)
06.6 Batters (e.g. for breading or batters for fish or poultry) 300
06.8.1 Soybean-based beverages 50
07.2 Fine bakery wares (sweet, salty, savoury) and mixes 300
08.2 Processed meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or 1000 16, XS96,
cuts XS97
08.3 Processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products 1000 16, XS88,
XS89 &
XS98
08.4 Edible casings (e.g. sausage casings) 1000 16
09.2.1 Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, 1000 95, XS36,
crustaceans, and echinoderms XS92,
XS95,
XS165,
XS190,
XS191,
XS292,
XS312,
XS315
09.2.2 Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including 300 16, XS166
mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms
09.2.3 Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including mollusks, 300 16
crustaceans, and echinoderms
09.2.4.1 Cooked fish and fish products 300 95
09.2.4.2 Cooked mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 300
09.2.4.3 Fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, 300 16
and echinoderms
09.2.5 Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, 300 22, XS167,
including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms XS189,
XS222,
XS236,
XS244,
XS311
09.3.1 Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and 300 16
echinoderms, marinated and/or in jelly
09.3.2 Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, 300 16
09.3.3 Salmon substitutes, caviar, and other fish roe products 300 XS291
09.3.4 Semi-preserved fish and fish products, including mollusks, 300
crustaceans, and echinoderms (e.g. fish paste), excluding
products of food categories 09.3.1 - 09.3.3
09.4 Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish 500 95, XS3,
products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms XS37,
XS70,
XS90,
XS94 &
XS119
10.1 Fresh eggs 300 4
10.4 Egg-based desserts (e.g. custard) 300
11.3 Sugar solutions and syrups, also (partially) inverted, including 300
treacle and molasses, excluding products of food category
11.1.3
11.4 Other sugars and syrups (e.g. xylose, maple syrup, sugar 300
toppings)
12.2.2 Seasonings and condiments 350
12.4 Mustards 300
12.5 Soups and broths 200 344
12.6 Sauces and like products 350 XS302
12.7 Salads (e.g. macaroni salad, potato salad) and sandwich 300
spreads excluding cocoa- and nut-based spreads of food
categories 04.2.2.5 and 05.1.3
12.9.1 Fermented soybean paste (e.g., miso) 30
13.3 Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes 300
(excluding products of food category 13.1)
13.4 Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction 300
13.5 Dietetic foods (e.g. supplementary foods for dietary use) 300
excluding products of food categories 13.1 - 13.4 and 13.6
13.6 Food supplements 300
14.1.4 Water-based flavoured drinks, including "sport," "energy," or 50
"electrolyte" drinks and particulated drinks
14.2.2 Cider and perry 300
14.2.4 Wines (other than grape) 300
14.2.7 Aromatized alcoholic beverages (e.g. beer, wine and spirituous 100
cooler-type beverages, low alcoholic refreshers)
15.1 Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and 1000
tubers, pulses and legumes)
15.2 Processed nuts, including coated nuts and nut mixtures (e.g. 1000
dried fruit)
TARTRAZINE
INS Name of additive
102 Tartrazin
ML
Food
Food category (mg/ Remark
category No.
kg)
01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 300 52
09.2.5 Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, 100 382,
including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms XS167,
XS189,
XS222,
XS236,
XS244
09.4 Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish 30 435, XS3,
products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms XS70,
XS90,
XS94 &
XS119
12.5 Soups and broths 50 99
QUINOLINE YELLOW
INS Name of additive
104 Quinolin yellow
ML
Food
Food category (mg/ Remark
category No.
kg)
01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 10 52
12.5 Soups and broths 50 99
SUNSET YELLOW FCF
INS Name of additive
110 Sunset yellow FCF
ML
Food
Food category (mg/ Remark
category No.
kg)
01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 300 52
01.6.1 Unripened cheese 300 3
01.6.2.2 Rind of ripened cheese 300
01.6.4 Processed cheese 200 3
01.6.5 Cheese analogues 300 3
01.7 Dairy-based desserts (e.g. pudding, fruit or flavored yogurt) 300
02.1.3 Lard, tallow, fish oil, and other animal fats 300
02.4 Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of 50
food category 01.7
03.0 Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet 50
04.1.2.5 Jams, jellies, marmelades 300
04.1.2.6 Fruit-based spreads (e.g. chutney) excluding products of food 300
category 04.1.2.5
04.1.2.7 Candied fruit 200
04.1.2.8 Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and 300 182
coconut milk
04.1.2.9 Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based 50
desserts
04.1.2.11 Fruit fillings for pastries 300
04.2.1.2 Surface-treated fresh vegetables (including mushrooms and 300 4 & 16
fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera),
seaweeds, and nuts and seeds
04.2.2.6 Vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, 50 92
pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweed, and nut and seed
pulps and preparations (e.g. vegetable desserts and sauces,
candied vegetables) other than food category 04.2.2.5
04.2.2.7 Fermented vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots 200 92
and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera) and seaweed
products, excluding fermented soybean products of food
categories 06.8.6, 06.8.7, 12.9.1, 12.9.2.1 and 12.9.2.3
05.1.4 Cocoa and chocolate products 400 183
05.1.5 Imitation chocolate, chocolate substitute products 300
05.2 Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougats, etc. 300 XS309R
other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4
05.3 Chewing gum 300
05.4 Decorations (e.g. for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) 300
and sweet sauces
06.3 Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats 300
06.4.3 Pre-cooked pastas and noodles and like products 300 153
06.5 Cereal- and starch-based desserts (e.g. rice pudding, tapioca 50
pudding)
07.2 Fine bakery wares (sweet, salty, savoury) and mixes 50
08.1 Fresh meat, poultry, and game 300 4 & 16
08.2 Processed meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or 300 16, XS96
cuts & XS97
08.3.1.1 Cured (including salted) non-heat treated processed 300 16
comminuted meat, poultry, and game products
08.3.1.2 Cured (including salted) and dried non-heat treated processed 135
comminuted meat, poultry, and game products
08.3.1.3 Fermented non-heat treated processed comminuted meat, 300 16
poultry, and game products
08.3.2 Heat-treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game 300 16, XS88,
products XS89 &
XS98
08.3.3 Frozen processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game 300 16
products
08.4 Edible casings (e.g. sausage casings) 300 16
09.1.1 Fresh fish 300 4, 16 & 50
09.1.2 Fresh mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 300 4, 16,
XS292,
XS312,
XS315
09.2.1 Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, 300 95, XS36,
crustaceans, and echinoderms XS92,
XS95,
XS165,
XS190,
XS191,
XS292,
XS312,
XS315
09.2.2 Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including 300 16, XS166
mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms
09.2.3 Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including mollusks, 300 16 & 95
crustaceans, and echinoderms
09.2.4.1 Cooked fish and fish products 300 95
09.2.4.2 Cooked mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 250
09.2.4.3 Fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, 300 16
and echinoderms
09.2.5 Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, 100 382,
including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms XS167,
XS189,
XS222,
XS236,
XS244
09.3.1 Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and 300 16
echinoderms, marinated and/or in jelly
09.3.2 Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, 300 16
09.3.3 Salmon substitutes, caviar, and other fish roe products 300 XS291
09.3.4 Semi-preserved fish and fish products, including mollusks, 300
crustaceans, and echinoderms (e.g. fish paste), excluding
products of food categories 09.3.1 - 09.3.3
09.4 Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish 300 95, 435,
products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms XS3,
XS70,
XS90,
XS94 &
XS119
10.1 Fresh eggs GMP 4
10.4 Egg-based desserts (e.g. custard) 50
12.2.2 Seasonings and condiments 300
12.4 Mustards 300
12.5 Soups and broths 50
12.6 Sauces and like products 300 XS302
13.3 Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes 50
(excluding products of food category 13.1)
13.4 Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction 50
13.5 Dietetic foods (e.g. supplementary foods for dietary use) 300
excluding products of food categories 13.1 - 13.4 and 13.6
13.6 Food supplements 300
14.1.4 Water-based flavoured drinks, including "sport," "energy," or 100 127
"electrolyte" drinks and particulated drinks
14.2.6 Distilled spirituous beverages containing more than 15% 200
alcohol
14.2.7 Aromatized alcoholic beverages (e.g. beer, wine and spirituous 200
cooler-type beverages, low alcoholic refreshers)
15.1 Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and 200
tubers, pulses and legumes)
CARMINES
INS Name of additive
120 Carmine
Food ML
Food category Remark
category No. (mg/
kg)
01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 150 52
01.6.2.1 Ripened cheese (including rind) 125
01.6.4.2 Flavoured processed cheese, including cheese containing fruit, 100
vegetables, meat, etc.
01.6.5 Cheese analogues 100 3 & 178
01.7 Dairy-based desserts (e.g. pudding, fruit or flavored yogurt) 150
02.2.2 Fat spreads, dairy fat spreads and blended spreads 500 178
02.3 Fat emulsions mainly of oil-in-water type, including mixed 500 178
and/or flavoured products based on fat emulsions
02.4 Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of 150
food category 01.7
03.0 Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet 150
04.1.1.2 Surface-treated fresh fruit 500 4 & 16
04.1.2.4 Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit 200 104
04.1.2.5 Jams, jellies, marmelades 200
04.1.2.6 Fruit-based spreads (e.g. chutney) excluding products of food 500
category 04.1.2.5
04.1.2.7 Candied fruit 200
04.1.2.8 Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and 500 182
coconut milk
04.1.2.9 Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based 150
desserts
04.1.2.11 Fruit fillings for pastries 300
04.2.1.2 Surface-treated fresh vegetables (including mushrooms and 500 4 & 16
fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera),
seaweeds, and nuts and seeds
04.2.2.3 Vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, 500 178
pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), and seaweeds in vinegar,
oil, brine, or soybean sauce
04.2.2.5 Vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, 100
pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweed, and nut and seed
purees and spreads (e.g., peanut butter)
04.2.2.6 Vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, 200 92
pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweed, and nut and seed
pulps and preparations (e.g. vegetable desserts and sauces,
candied vegetables) other than food category 04.2.2.5
05.1.2 Cocoa mixes (syrups) 300
05.1.5 Imitation chocolate, chocolate substitute products 300
05.2 Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougats, etc. 300 XS309R
other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4
05.3 Chewing gum 500 178
05.4 Decorations (e.g. for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) 500
and sweet sauces
06.3 Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats 200
06.4.3 Pre-cooked pastas and noodles and like products 100 153 & 178
06.5 Cereal- and starch-based desserts (e.g. rice pudding, tapioca 150
pudding)
06.6 Batters (e.g. for breading or batters for fish or poultry) 500
06.8.1 Soybean-based beverages 100 178
07.1.2 Crackers, excluding sweet crackers 200 178
07.1.4 Bread-type products, including bread stuffing and bread 500 178
crumbs
07.2 Fine bakery wares (sweet, salty, savoury) and mixes 200
08.1.1 Fresh meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or cuts 500 4 & 16
08.1.2 Comminuted meat, poultry, and game 100 4, 16 & 117
08.2 Processed meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or 500 16, XS96
cuts & XS97
08.3.1.1 Cured (including salted) non-heat treated processed 200 118
comminuted meat, poultry, and game products
08.3.1.2 Cured (including salted) and dried non-heat treated processed 100
comminuted meat, poultry, and game products
08.3.1.3 Fermented non-heat treated processed comminuted meat, 100
poultry, and game products
08.3.2 Heat-treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game 100 XS88,
products XS89 &
XS98
08.3.3 Frozen processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game 500 16
products
08.4 Edible casings (e.g. sausage casings) 500 16
09.1.1 Fresh fish 300 4, 16 & 50
09.1.2 Fresh mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 500 4, 16,
XS292,
XS312,
XS315
09.2.1 Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, 100 95, 178,
crustaceans, and echinoderms XS36,
XS92,
XS95,
XS165,
XS190,
XS191,
XS292,
XS312,
XS315
09.2.2 Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including 500 16, 95, 178,
mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms XS166
09.2.3 Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including mollusks, 500 16
crustaceans, and echinoderms
09.2.4.1 Cooked fish and fish products 500
09.2.4.2 Cooked mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 250
09.2.4.3 Fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, 500 16, 95 &
and echinoderms 178
09.2.5 Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, 300 22, XS167,
including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms XS189,
XS222,
XS236,
XS244,
XS311
09.3.1 Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and 500 16
echinoderms, marinated and/or in jelly
09.3.2 Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and 500 16
echinoderms, pickled and/or in brine
09.3.3 Salmon substitutes, caviar, and other fish roe products 500 XS291
09.3.4 Semi-preserved fish and fish products, including mollusks, 100
crustaceans, and echinoderms (e.g. fish paste), excluding
products of food categories 09.3.1 - 09.3.3
09.4 Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish 500 16, XS3,
products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms XS37,
XS70,
XS90,
XS94 &
XS119
10.1 Fresh eggs GMP 4
10.4 Egg-based desserts (e.g. custard) 150
12.2.2 Seasonings and condiments 500
12.4 Mustards 300
12.5 Soups and broths 50
12.6 Sauces and like products 500 XS302
13.3 Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes 50
(excluding products of food category 13.1)
13.4 Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction 50
13.5 Dietetic foods (e.g. supplementary foods for dietary use) 300
excluding products of food categories 13.1 - 13.4 and 13.6
13.6 Food supplements 300
14.1.4 Water-based flavoured drinks, including "sport," "energy," or 100 178
"electrolyte" drinks and particulated drinks
14.2.1 Beer and malt beverages 100
14.2.2 Cider and perry 200
14.2.4 Wines (other than grape) 200
14.2.6 Distilled spirituous beverages containing more than 15% 200
alcohol
14.2.7 Aromatized alcoholic beverages (e.g. beer, wine and spirituous 200 178
cooler-type beverages, low alcoholic refreshers)
15.1 Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and 200
tubers, pulses and legumes)
15.2 Processed nuts, including coated nuts and nut mixtures (e.g. 100
dried fruit)
15.3 Snacks - fish-based 200 178
AZORUBINE (CARMOISINE)
INS Name of additive
122 Azorubine (Carmoisine)
ML
Food
Food category (mg/ Remark
category No.
kg)
01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 150 52
12.5 Soups and broths 50 99
AMARANTH
INS Name of additive
123 Amaranth
ML
Food
Food category (mg/ Remark
category No.
kg)
01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 50 52
09.4 Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish 30 435, XS3,
products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms XS70,
XS90,
XS94 &
XS119
PONCEAU 4R (COCHINEAL RED A)
INS Name of additive
124 Ponceau 4R (Cochineal red A)
ML
Food
Food category (mg/ Remark
category No.
kg)
01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 150 52
01.6.1 Unripened cheese 100 3
01.6.2.2 Rind of ripened cheese 100
01.6.4.2 Flavoured processed cheese, including cheese containing fruit, 100
vegetables, meat, etc.
01.6.5 Cheese analogues 100 3
01.7 Dairy-based desserts (e.g. pudding, fruit or flavored yogurt) 150
02.4 Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of 50
food category 01.7
03.0 Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet 50
04.1.2.4 Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit 300 267
04.1.2.5 Jams, jellies, marmelades 100
04.1.2.6 Fruit-based spreads (e.g. chutney) excluding products of food 500
category 04.1.2.5
04.1.2.7 Candied fruit 200
04.1.2.8 Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and 50 182
coconut milk
04.1.2.9 Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based 50
desserts
04.1.2.11 Fruit fillings for pastries 50
04.2.2.7 Fermented vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots 500
and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera) and seaweed
products, excluding fermented soybean products of food
categories 06.8.6, 06.8.7, 12.9.1, 12.9.2.1 and 12.9.2.3
05.1.4 Cocoa and chocolate products 300 183
05.1.5 Imitation chocolate, chocolate substitute products 50
05.2 Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougats, etc. 300 XS309R
other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4
05.3 Chewing gum 300
05.4 Decorations (e.g. for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) 50
and sweet sauces
06.5 Cereal- and starch-based desserts (e.g. rice pudding, tapioca 50
pudding)
07.2 Fine bakery wares (sweet, salty, savoury) and mixes 50
08.4 Edible casings (e.g. sausage casings) 500 16
09.2.1 Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, 30 395, XS 36,
crustaceans, and echinoderms XS95,
XS165,
XS190,
XS191,
XS292,
XS312,
XS315
09.2.2 Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including 500 16, 95 &
mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms XS166
09.2.3 Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including mollusks, 500 16 & 95
crustaceans, and echinoderms
09.2.4.1 Cooked fish and fish products 500 95
09.2.4.2 Cooked mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 250
09.2.5 Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, 100 22, XS167,
including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms XS189,
XS222,
XS236,
XS244,
XS311
09.3.3 Salmon substitutes, caviar, and other fish roe products 500 XS291
09.3.4 Semi-preserved fish and fish products, including mollusks, 100
crustaceans, and echinoderms (e.g. fish paste), excluding
products of food categories 09.3.1 - 09.3.3
09.4 Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish 500 435, XS3,
products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms XS70,
XS90,
XS94 &
XS119
10.1 Fresh eggs 500 4
10.4 Egg-based desserts (e.g. custard) 50
11.4 Other sugars and syrups (e.g. xylose, maple syrup, sugar 300 159
toppings)
12.2.2 Seasonings and condiments 500
12.4 Mustards 300
12.5 Soups and broths 50
12.6 Sauces and like products 50 XS302
12.7 Salads (e.g. macaroni salad, potato salad) and sandwich 200
spreads excluding cocoa- and nut-based spreads of food
categories 04.2.2.5 and 05.1.3
13.3 Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes 50
(excluding products of food category 13.1)
13.4 Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction 50
13.5 Dietetic foods (e.g. supplementary foods for dietary use) 300
excluding products of food categories 13.1 - 13.4 and 13.6
13.6 Food supplements 300
14.1.4 Water-based flavoured drinks, including "sport," "energy," or 50
"electrolyte" drinks and particulated drinks
14.2.6 Distilled spirituous beverages containing more than 15% 200
alcohol
14.2.7 Aromatized alcoholic beverages (e.g. beer, wine and spirituous 200
cooler-type beverages, low alcoholic refreshers)
15.1 Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and 200
tubers, pulses and legumes)
15.2 Processed nuts, including coated nuts and nut mixtures (e.g. 100
dried fruit)
ERYTHROSINE
INS Name of additive
127 Erythrosine
Food ML
Food category Remark
category No. (mg/
kg)
04.1.2.7 Candied fruit 200 54
04.2.2.7 Fermented vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots 30
and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera) and seaweed
products, excluding fermented soybean products of food
categories 06.8.6, 06.8.7, 12.9.1, 12.9.2.1 and 12.9.2.3
05.3 Chewing gum 50
05.4 Decorations (e.g. for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) 100
and sweet sauces
08.2 Processed meat, poultry and game products in whole pieces or 30 4, 16, XS96
cuts & XS97
08.3 Processed comminuted meat, poultry and game products 30 4, 290 &
XS88
ALLURA RED AC
INS Name of additive
129 Allura red AC
ML
Food
Food category (mg/ Remark
category No.
kg)
01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 300 52
01.6.2.2 Rind of ripened cheese 100
01.6.4 Processed cheese 100
01.6.5 Cheese analogues 100 3
01.7 Dairy-based desserts (e.g. pudding, fruit or flavored yogurt) 300
02.4 Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of 300
food category 01.7
03.0 Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet 150
04.1.2.5 Jams, jellies, marmelades 100
04.1.2.7 Candied fruit 300
04.1.2.8 Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and 300 182
coconut milk
04.1.2.9 Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based 300
desserts
04.1.2.11 Fruit fillings for pastries 300
04.2.2.3 Vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, 300
pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), and seaweeds in vinegar,
oil, brine, or soybean sauce
04.2.2.4 Canned or bottled (pasteurized) or retort pouch vegetables 200
(including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and
legumes, and aloe vera), and seaweeds
04.2.2.6 Vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, 200 92
pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweed, and nut and seed
pulps and preparations (e.g. vegetable desserts and sauces,
candied vegetables) other than food category 04. 2. 2. 5
05.1.3 Cocoa-based spreads, including fillings 300 XS86
05.1.4 Cocoa and chocolate products 300 183
05.1.5 Imitation chocolate, chocolate substitute products 300
05.2 Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougats, etc. 300 XS309R
other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4
05.3 Chewing gum 300
05.4 Decorations (e.g. for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) 300
and sweet sauces
06.3 Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats 300
06.5 Cereal- and starch-based desserts (e.g. rice pudding, tapioca 300
pudding)
07.1.2 Crackers, excluding sweet crackers 300
07.1.3 Other ordinary bakery products (e.g. bagels, pita, English 300
muffins)
07.2 Fine bakery wares (sweet, salty, savoury) and mixes 300
08.3.2 Heat-treated processed comminuted meat, poultry and game 25 XS88,
products XS89 &
XS98
08.4 Edible casings (e.g. sausage casings) 300 16
09.2.1 Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, 300 95,XS36,
crustaceans, and echinoderms XS92,
XS95,
XS165,
XS190,
XS191,
XS292,
XS312,
XS315
09.2.4.1 Cooked fish and fish products 300 95
09.2.4.2 Cooked mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 250
09.2.5 Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, 300 382,
including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms XS167,
XS189,
XS222,
XS236,
XS244
09.3.3 Salmon substitutes, caviar, and other fish roe products 300 XS291
09.3.4 Semi-preserved fish and fish products, including mollusks, 300
crustaceans, and echinoderms (e.g. fish paste), excluding
products of food categories 09.3.1 - 09.3.3
10.1 Fresh eggs 100 4
10.4 Egg-based desserts (e.g. custard) 300
11.4 Other sugars and syrups (e.g. xylose, maple syrup, sugar 300
toppings)
12.2.2 Seasonings and condiments 300
12.4 Mustards 300
12.5 Soups and broths 300 337
12.6 Sauces and like products 300 XS302
13.3 Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes 50
(excluding products of food category 13.1)
13.4 Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction 50
13.5 Dietetic foods (e.g. supplementary foods for dietary use) 300
excluding products of food categories 13.1 - 13.4 and 13.6
13.6 Food supplements 300
14.1.4 Water-based flavoured drinks, including "sport," "energy," or 300 127
"electrolyte" drinks and particulated drinks
14.2.2 Cider and perry 200
14.2.4 Wines (other than grape) 200
14.2.6 Distilled spirituous beverages containing more than 15% 300
alcohol
14.2.7 Aromatized alcoholic beverages (e.g. beer, wine and spirituous 200
cooler-type beverages, low alcoholic refreshers)
15.1 Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and 200
tubers, pulses and legumes)
15.2 Processed nuts, including coated nuts and nut mixtures (e.g. 100
dried fruit)
INDIGOTINE (INDIGO CARMINE)
INS Name of additive
132 Indigotine (Indigo carmine)
ML
Food
Food category (mg/ Remark
category No.
kg)
01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 300 52, 402
01.6.1 Unripened cheese 200 3
01.6.2.2 Rind of ripened cheese 100
01.6.4.2 Flavoured processed cheese, including cheese containing fruit, 100
vegetables, meat, etc.
01.6.5 Cheese analogues 200 3
01.7 Dairy-based desserts (e.g. pudding, fruit or flavored yogurt) 150
02.1.3 Lard, tallow, fish oil, and other animal fats 300
02.3 Fat emulsions mainly of oil-in-water type, including mixed 300
and/or flavoured products based on fat emulsions
02.4 Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of 150
food category 01.7
03.0 Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet 150
04.1.2.5 Jams, jellies, marmelades 300
04.1.2.6 Fruit-based spreads (e.g. chutney) excluding products of food 300
category 04.1.2.5
04.1.2.7 Candied fruit 200
04.1.2.8 Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and 150 182
coconut milk
04.1.2.9 Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based 150
desserts
04.1.2.11 Fruit fillings for pastries 150
04.2.2.3 Vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, 150
pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), and seaweeds in vinegar,
oil, brine, or soybean sauce
04.2.2.6 Vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, 200 92
pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweed, and nut and seed
pulps and preparations (e.g. vegetable desserts and sauces,
candied vegetables) other than food category 04. 2. 2. 5
04.2.2.7 Fermented vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots 300
and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera) and seaweed
products, excluding fermented soybean products of food
categories 06.8.6, 06.8.7, 12.9.1, 12.9.2.1 and 12.9.2.3
05.1.4 Cocoa and chocolate products 450 183
05.1.5 Imitation chocolate, chocolate substitute products 300
05.2 Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougats, etc. 300 XS309R
other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4
05.3 Chewing gum 300
05.4 Decorations (e.g. for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) 300
and sweet sauces
06.5 Cereal- and starch-based desserts (e.g. rice pudding, tapioca 150
pudding)
07.2 Fine bakery wares (sweet, salty, savoury) and mixes 200
09.1.1 Fresh fish 300 4, 16 & 50
09.2.1 Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, 300 95, XS36,
crustaceans, and echinoderms XS92,
XS95,
XS165,
XS190,
XS191,
XS292,
XS312,
XS315
09.2.4.1 Cooked fish and fish products 300 95
09.2.4.2 Cooked mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 250 16
09.3.3 Salmon substitutes, caviar, and other fish roe products 300 XS291
09.3.4 Semi-preserved fish and fish products, including mollusks, 300
crustaceans, and echinoderms (e.g. fish paste), excluding
products of food categories 09.3.1 - 09.3.3
09.4 Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish 300 XS3,
products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms XS37,
XS70,
XS90,
XS94 &
XS119
10.1 Fresh eggs 300 4
10.4 Egg-based desserts (e.g. custard) 300
11.4 Other sugars and syrups (e.g. xylose, maple syrup, sugar 300
toppings)
12.2.2 Seasonings and condiments 300
12.4 Mustards 300
12.5 Soups and broths 50
12.6 Sauces and like products 300 XS302
13.3 Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes 50
(excluding products of food category 13.1)
13.4 Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction 50
13.5 Dietetic foods (e.g. supplementary foods for dietary use) 300
excluding products of food categories 13.1 - 13.4 and 13.6
13.6 Food supplements 300
14.1.4 Water-based flavoured drinks, including "sport," "energy," or 100
"electrolyte" drinks and particulated drinks
14.2.2 Cider and perry 200
14.2.4 Wines (other than grape) 200
14.2.6 Distilled spirituous beverages containing more than 15% 300
alcohol
14.2.7 Aromatized alcoholic beverages (e.g. beer, wine and spirituous 200
cooler-type beverages, low alcoholic refreshers)
15.1 Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and 200
tubers, pulses and legumes)
15.2 Processed nuts, including coated nuts and nut mixtures (e.g. 100
dried fruit)
BRILLIANT BLUE FCF
INS Name of additive
133 Brilliant blue FCF
ML
Food
Food category (mg/ Remark
category No.
kg)
01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 150 52
01.6.2.2 Rind of ripened cheese 100
01.6.5 Cheese analogues 100 3
01.7 Dairy-based desserts (e.g. pudding, fruit or flavored yogurt) 150
02.3 Fat emulsions mainly of oil-in-water type, including mixed 100
and/or flavoured products based on fat emulsions
02.4 Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of 150
food category 01.7
03.0 Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet 150
04.1.2.4 Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit 200 267
04.1.2.5 Jams, jellies, marmelades 100
04.1.2.6 Fruit-based spreads (e.g. chutney) excluding products of food 100
category 04.1.2.5
04.1.2.7 Candied fruit 100
04.1.2.8 Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and 100 182
coconut milk
04.1.2.9 Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based 150
desserts
04.1.2.11 Fruit fillings for pastries 250
04.2.2.3 Vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, 500
pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), and seaweeds in vinegar,
oil, brine, or soybean sauce
04.2.2.4 Canned or bottled (pasteurized) or retort pouch vegetables 200
(including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and
legumes, and aloe vera), and seaweeds
04.2.2.6 Vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, 100 92
pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweed, and nut and seed
pulps and preparations (e.g. vegetable desserts and sauces,
candied vegetables) other than food category 04. 2. 2. 5
04.2.2.7 Fermented vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots 100 92
and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera) and seaweed
products, excluding fermented soybean products of food
categories 06.8.6, 06.8.7, 12.9.1, 12.9.2.1 and 12.9.2.3
05.1.3 Cocoa-based spreads, including fillings 100 XS86
05.1.4 Cocoa and chocolate products 100 183
05.1.5 Imitation chocolate, chocolate substitute products 100
05.2 Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougats, etc. 300 XS309R
other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4
05.3 Chewing gum 300
05.4 Decorations (e.g. for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) 500
and sweet sauces
06.3 Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats 200
06.5 Cereal- and starch-based desserts (e.g. rice pudding, tapioca 150
pudding)
07.1 Bread and ordinary bakery wares 100
07.2 Fine bakery wares (sweet, salty, savoury) and mixes 200
08.0 Meat and meat products, including poultry and game 100 4, 16,
XS88,
XS89,
XS96
XS97 &
XS98
09.1.1 Fresh fish 300 4, 16 & 50
09.1.2 Fresh mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 500 4, 16,
XS292,
XS312,
XS315
09.2.1 Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, 500 95, XS36,
crustaceans, and echinoderms XS92,
XS95,
XS165,
XS190,
XS191,
XS292,
XS312,
XS315
09.2.2 Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including 500 16, XS166
mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms
09.2.3 Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including mollusks, 500 16
crustaceans, and echinoderms
09.2.4.1 Cooked fish and fish products 100 95
09.2.4.2 Cooked mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 100
09.2.4.3 Fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, 500 16
and echinoderms
09.3.1 Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and 500 16
echinoderms, marinated and/or in jelly
09.3.2 Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and 500 16
echinoderms, pickled and/or in brine
09.3.3 Salmon substitutes, caviar, and other fish roe products 500 XS291
09.4 Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish 500 XS3,
products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms XS37,
XS70,
XS90,
XS94,
XS119
10.1 Fresh eggs GMP 4
10.4 Egg-based desserts (e.g. custard) 150
12.2.2 Seasonings and condiments 100
12.4 Mustards 100
12.5 Soups and broths 50
12.6 Sauces and like products 100 XS302
13.3 Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes 50
(excluding products of food category 13.1)
13.4 Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction 50
13.5 Dietetic foods (e.g. supplementary foods for dietary use) 300
excluding products of food categories 13.1 - 13.4 and 13.6
13.6 Food supplements 300
14.1.4 Water-based flavoured drinks, including "sport," "energy," or 100
"electrolyte" drinks and particulated drinks
14.2.2 Cider and perry 200
14.2.4 Wines (other than grape) 200
14.2.6 Distilled spirituous beverages containing more than 15% 200
alcohol
14.2.7 Aromatized alcoholic beverages (e.g. beer, wine and spirituous 200
cooler-type beverages, low alcoholic refreshers)
15.1 Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and 200
tubers, pulses and legumes)
15.2 Processed nuts, including coated nuts and nut mixtures (e.g. 100
dried fruit)
CHLOROPHYLLS AND CHLOROPHYLLINS, COPPER COMPLEXES
INS Name of additive
141(i) Chlorophylls, copper complexes
141(ii) Chlorophyllin copper complexes (potassium and sodium salts)
ML
Food
Food category (mg/ Remark
category No.
kg)
01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 50 52 & 190
01.6.1 Unripened cheese 50
01.6.2.1 Ripened cheese (including rind) 15
01.6.2.2 Rind of ripened cheese 75
01.6.2.3 Cheese powder (for reconstitution; e.g. for cheese sauces) 50
01.6.4.2 Flavoured processed cheese, including cheese containing fruit, 50
vegetables, meat, etc.
01.6.5 Cheese analogues 50
01.7 Dairy-based desserts (e.g. pudding, fruit or flavored yogurt) 500
02.4 Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of 500
food category 01.7
03.0 Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet 500
04.1.2.3 Fruit in vinegar, oil, or brine 100 62
04.1.2.4 Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit 100 62, 267
04.1.2.5 Jams, jellies, marmelades 200
04.1.2.6 Fruit-based spreads (e.g. chutney) excluding products of food 150
category 04.1.2.5
04.1.2.7 Candied fruit 250
04.1.2.8 Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and 100 62 & 182
coconut milk
04.1.2.9 Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based 150
desserts
04.1.2.10 Fermented fruit products 100 62
04.1.2.11 Fruit fillings for pastries 100 62
04.1.2.12 Cooked fruit 100 62
04.2.2.5 Vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, 100 62
pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweed, and nut and seed
purees and spreads (e.g. peanut butter)
04.2.2.6 Vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, 100 62 & 92
pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweed, and nut and seed
pulps and preparations (e.g. vegetable desserts and sauces,
candied vegetables) other than food category 04. 2. 2. 5
04.2.2.7 Fermented vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots 100 62
and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera) and seaweed
products, excluding fermented soybean products of food
categories 06.8.6, 06.8.7, 12.9.1, 12.9.2.1 and 12.9.2.3
04.2.2.8 Cooked or fried vegetables (including mushrooms and 100 62
05.1.2 Cocoa mixes (syrups) 6,4 62
05.1.3 Cocoa-based spreads, including fillings 6,4 62 & XS86
05.1.4 Cocoa and chocolate products 700 183
05.1.5 Imitation chocolate, chocolate substitute products 700
05.2.1 Hard candy 700
05.2.2 Soft candy 100 XS309R
05.2.3 Nougats and marzipans 100
05.3 Chewing gum 700
05.4 Decorations (e.g. for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) 100
and sweet sauces
06.4.3 Pre-cooked pastas and noodles and like products 100 153
06.5 Cereal- and starch-based desserts (e.g. rice pudding, tapioca 75
pudding)
07.1.4 Bread-type products, including bread stuffing and bread 6,4 62
crumbs
07.2 Fine bakery wares (sweet, salty, savoury) and mixes 75
09.2.3 Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including mollusks, 40 95
crustaceans, and echinoderms
09.2.4.1 Cooked fish and fish products 30 62 & 95
09.2.4.3 Fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, 40 95
and echinoderms
09.2.5 Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, 200 XS167,
including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms XS189,
XS222,
XS236,
XS244,
XS311
09.3.1 Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and 40 16
echinoderms, marinated and/or in jelly
09.3.2 Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and 40 16
echinoderms, pickled and/or in brine
09.3.3 Salmon substitutes, caviar, and other fish roe products 200 XS291
09.3.4 Semi-preserved fish and fish products, including mollusks, 75 95
crustaceans, and echinoderms (e.g. fish paste), excluding
products of food categories 09.3.1 - 09.3.3
09.4 Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish 500 95, XS3,
products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms XS37,
XS70,
XS90,
XS94 &
XS119
10.4 Egg-based desserts (e.g. custard) 300 2
11.4 Other sugars and syrups (e.g. xylose, maple syrup, sugar 64 62
toppings)
12.2.2 Seasonings and condiments 500
12.4 Mustards 500
12.5 Soups and broths 400 342
12.6 Sauces and like products 100 XS302
13.6 Food supplements 500 3
14.1.4 Water-based flavoured drinks, including "sport," "energy," or 300
"electrolyte" drinks and particulated drinks
15.1 Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and 350
tubers, pulses and legumes)
15.2 Processed nuts, including coated nuts and nut mixtures (e.g. 100
dried fruit)
15.3 Snacks - fish-based 350
FAST GREEN FCF
INS Name of additive
143 Fast green FCF
ML
Food
Food category (mg/ Remark
category No.
kg)
01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 100 52
01.7 Dairy-based desserts (e.g. pudding, fruit or flavored yogurt) 100 2
02.1.3 Lard, tallow, fish oil, and other animal fats GMP
02.4 Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of 100
food category 01.7
03.0 Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet 100
04.1.2.4 Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit 200 267
04.1.2.5 Jams, jellies, marmelades 400
04.1.2.6 Fruit-based spreads (e.g. chutney) excluding products of food 100
category 04.1.2.5
04.1.2.7 Candied fruit 100
04.1.2.8 Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and 100 182
coconut milk
04.1.2.9 Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based 100
desserts
04.1.2.11 Fruit fillings for pastries 100
04.2.2.3 Vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, 300
pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), and seaweeds in vinegar,
oil, brine, or soybean sauce
04.2.2.4 Canned or bottled (pasteurized) or retort pouch vegetables 200
(including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and
legumes, and aloe vera), and seaweeds
04.2.2.7 Fermented vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots 100
and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera) and seaweed
products, excluding fermented soybean products of food
categories 06.8.6, 06.8.7, 12.9.1, 12.9.2.1 and 12.9.2.3
05.2 Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougats, etc. 100 XS309R
other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4
05.3 Chewing gum 300
05.4 Decorations (e.g. for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) 100
and sweet sauces
06.4.3 Pre-cooked pastas and noodles and like products 290 194
06.5 Cereal- and starch-based desserts (e.g. rice pudding, tapioca 100
pudding)
07.0 Bakery wares 100
08.1 Fresh meat, poultry, and game 100 3, 4 & 16
08.2 Processed meat, poultry and game products in whole pieces or 100 3, 4, XS96
cuts & XS97
08.4 Edible casings (e.g. sausage casings) 100 3&4
09.2.4.1 Cooked fish and fish products 100
09.2.5 Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, 100 XS167,
including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms XS189,
XS222,
XS236,
XS244,
XS311
09.3.3 Salmon substitutes, caviar, and other fish roe products 100 XS291
09.4 Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish 100 95, XS3,
products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms XS37,
XS70,
XS90,
XS94 &
XS119
10.1 Fresh eggs GMP 4
10.4 Egg-based desserts (e.g. custard) 100
12.2.2 Seasonings and condiments 100
12.6.1 Emulsified sauces and dips (e.g. mayonnaise, salad dressing, 100
onion dip)
13.6 Food supplements 600
14.1.4 Water-based flavoured drinks, including "sport," "energy," or 100
"electrolyte" drinks and particulated drinks
14.2.6 Distilled spirituous beverages containing more than 15% 100
alcohol
14.2.7 Aromatized alcoholic beverages (e.g. beer, wine and spirituous 100
cooler-type beverages, low alcoholic refreshers)
CARAMEL I - PLAIN CARAMEL
INS Name of additive
150a Caramel I (plain caramel)
ML
Food
Food category (mg/ Remark
category No.
kg)
09.2.2 Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including GMP 41
mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms
CARAMEL II – SULFITE CARAMEL
INS Name of additive
150b Caramel II (sulfite caramel)
ML
Food
Food category (mg/ Remark
category No.
kg)
01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 2000 52, 400
CARAMEL III - AMMONIA CARAMEL
INS Name of additive
150c Caramel III (ammonia caramel)
ML
Food
Food category (mg/ Remark
category No.
kg)
01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 2000 52
01.3.2 Beverage whiteners 1000
01.4.4 Sauces and like products 5000
01.5.2 Milk and cream powder analogues 5000
01.6.1 Unripened cheese 15000 201
01.6.2.2 Rind of ripened cheese 50000
01.6.4.2 Flavoured processed cheese, including cheese containing fruit, 50000
vegetables, meat, etc.
01.6.5 Cheese analogues 50000
01.7 Dairy-based desserts (e.g. pudding, fruit or flavored yogurt) 2000
02.2.2 Fat spreads, dairy fat spreads and blended spreads 500
02.3 Fat emulsions mainly of oil-in-water type, including mixed 20000
and/or flavoured products based on fat emulsions
02.4 Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of 20000
food category 01.7
03.0 Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet 1000
04.1.2.3 Fruit in vinegar, oil, or brine 200
04.1.2.4 Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit 200 267
04.1.2.5 Jams, jellies, marmelades 200
04.1.2.6 Fruit-based spreads (e.g. chutney) excluding products of food 500
category 04.1.2.5
04.1.2.7 Candied fruit 200
04.1.2.8 Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and 7500 182
coconut milk
04.1.2.9 Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based 200
desserts
04.1.2.11 Fruit fillings for pastries 7500
04.2.2.2 Dried vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and 50000 76
tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweeds, and nuts
and seeds
04.2.2.3 Vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, 500
pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), and seaweeds in vinegar,
oil, brine, or soybean sauce
04.2.2.4 Canned or bottled (pasteurized) or retort pouch vegetables 50000
(including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and
legumes, and aloe vera), and seaweeds
04.2.2.5 Vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, 50000
pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweed, and nut and seed
purees and spreads (e.g. peanut butter)
04.2.2.6 Vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, 50000
pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweed, and nut and seed
pulps and preparations (e.g. vegetable desserts and sauces,
candied vegetables) other than food category 04. 2. 2. 5
04.2.2.7 Fermented vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots 50000
and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera) and seaweed
products, excluding fermented soybean products of food
categories 06.8.6, 06.8.7, 12.9.1, 12.9.2.1 and 12.9.2.3
04.2.2.8 Cooked or fried vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, 50000
roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), and
seaweeds
05.1.2 Cocoa mixes (syrups) 50000
05.1.3 Cocoa-based spreads, including fillings 50000 XS86
05.1.4 Cocoa and chocolate products 50000 183
05.1.5 Imitation chocolate, chocolate substitute products 50000
05.2 Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougats, etc. 50000 XS309R
other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4
05.3 Chewing gum 20000
05.4 Decorations (e.g. for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) 50000
and sweet sauces
06.3 Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats 50000 189
06.4.3 Pre-cooked pastas and noodles and like products 50000 153 & 173
06.5 Cereal- and starch-based desserts (e.g. rice pudding, tapioca 50000
pudding)
06.6 Batters (e.g. for breading or batters for fish or poultry) 50000
06.7 Pre-cooked or processed rice products, including rice cakes 50000
(Oriental type only)
06.8.1 Soybean-based beverages 1500
06.8.8 Other soybean protein products 20000
07.1.2 Crackers, excluding sweet crackers 50000
07.1.3 Other ordinary bakery products (e.g. bagels, pita, English 50000
muffins)
07.1.4 Bread-type products, including bread stuffing and bread 50000
crumbs
07.1.5 Steamed breads and buns 50000
07.1.6 Mixes for bread and ordinary bakery wares 50000
07.2 Fine bakery wares (sweet, salty, savoury) and mixes 50000
08.0 Meat and meat products, including poultry and game GMP 3, 4, 16,
XS88,
XS89,
XS96,
XS97 &
XS98
09.1 Fresh fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, 30000 4, 16,
and echinoderms XS292,
XS312,
XS315
09.2 Processed fish and fish products, including mollusks, 30000 XS36,
crustaceans, and echinoderms XS92,
XS95,
XS165,
XS166,
XS167,
XS189,
XS190,
XS191,
XS222,
XS236,
XS244,
XS292,
XS311,
XS312,
XS315
09.3 Semi-preserved fish and fish products, including mollusks, 30000 95, XS291
crustaceans, and echinoderms
09.4 Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish 500 50, XS3,
products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms XS37,
XS70,
XS90,
XS94 &
XS119
10.1 Fresh eggs 20000 4
10.3 Preserved eggs, including alkaline, salted, and canned eggs 20000 4
10.4 Egg-based desserts (e.g. custard) 20000
11.4 Other sugars and syrups (e.g. xylose, maple syrup, sugar 50000 100
toppings)
12.2.2 Seasonings and condiments 50000
12.3 Vinegars 1000 78
12.4 Mustards 50000
12.5 Soups and broths 25000
12.6 Sauces and like products 50000
12.7 Salads (e.g. macaroni salad, potato salad) and sandwich 50000 89
spreads excluding cocoa- and nut-based spreads of food
categories 04.2.2.5 and 05.1.3
12.9.2.1 Fermented soybean sauce 20000 207
12.9.2.2 Non-fermented soybean sauce 1500
12.9.2.3 Other soybean sauces 20000
13.3 Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes 20000
(excluding products of food category 13.1)
13.4 Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction 20000
13.5 Dietetic foods (e.g. supplementary foods for dietary use) 20000
excluding products of food categories 13.1 - 13.4 and 13.6
13.6 Food supplements 20000
14.1.4 Water-based flavoured drinks, including "sport," "energy," or 5000 9
"electrolyte" drinks and particulated drinks
14.1.5 Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot 10000 7 & 160
cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa
14.2.1 Beer and malt beverages 50000
14.2.2 Cider and perry 1000
14.2.3.3 Fortified grape wine, grape liquor wine, and sweet grape 50000
14.2.4 Wines (other than grape) 1000
14.2.5 Mead 1000
14.2.6 Distilled spirituous beverages containing more than 15% 50000
alcohol
14.2.7 Aromatized alcoholic beverages (e.g. beer, wine and spirituous 50000
cooler-type beverages, low alcoholic refreshers)
15.0 Ready-to-eat savouries 10000
CARAMEL IV - SULFITE AMMONIA CARAMEL
INS Name of additive
150d Caramel IV (sulfite ammonia caramel)
Food ML
Food category Remark
category No. (mg/
kg)
01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 2000 52
01.2.1 Fermented milks (plain) 150 12
01.2.2 Renneted milk (plain) GMP
01.3.2 Beverage whiteners 1000
01.4.4 Sauces and like products 5000
01.5.2 Milk and cream powder analogues 5000
01.6.1 Unripened cheese 50000 201
01.6.2.1 Ripened cheese (including rind) 50000 201
01.6.2.2 Rind of ripened cheese 50000
01.6.4.2 Flavoured processed cheese, including cheese containing fruit, 50000 72
vegetables, meat, etc.
01.6.5 Cheese analogues 50000 201
01.7 Dairy-based desserts (e.g. pudding, fruit or flavored yogurt) 2000
02.2.2 Fat spreads, dairy fat spreads and blended spreads 500 214
02.4 Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of 20000
food category 01.7
03.0 Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet 1000
04.1.2.3 Fruit in vinegar, oil, or brine 7500
04.1.2.4 Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit 7500 267
04.1.2.5 Jams, jellies, marmelades 1500
04.1.2.6 Fruit-based spreads (e.g. chutney) excluding products of food 500
category 04.1.2.5
04.1.2.7 Candied fruit 7500
04.1.2.8 Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and 7500 182
coconut milk
04.1.2.9 Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based 7500
desserts
04.1.2.11 Fruit fillings for pastries 7500
04.2.2 Processed vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots 50000 92
and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweeds, and
nuts and seeds
05.1.2 Cocoa mixes (syrups) 50000
05.1.3 Cocoa-based spreads, including fillings 50000 XS86
05.1.4 Cocoa and chocolate products 50000 183
05.1.5 Imitation chocolate, chocolate substitute products 50000
05.2 Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougats, etc. 50000 XS309R
other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4
05.3 Chewing gum 20000
05.4 Decorations (e.g. for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) 50000
and sweet sauces
06.3 Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats 2500
06.4.2 Dried pastas and noodles and like products 50000 211
06.4.3 Pre-cooked pastas and noodles and like products 50000 153
06.5 Cereal- and starch-based desserts (e.g. rice pudding, tapioca 2500
pudding)
06.6 Batters (e.g. for breading or batters for fish or poultry) 2500
06.7 Pre-cooked or processed rice products, including rice cakes 2500
(Oriental type only)
06.8.8 Other soybean protein products 20000
07.1.2 Crackers, excluding sweet crackers 50000
07.1.3 Other ordinary bakery products (e.g. bagels, pita, English 50000
muffins)
07.2 Fine bakery wares (sweet, salty, savoury) and mixes 1200
08.0 Meat and meat products, including poultry and game GMP 3, 4, 16,
XS88,
XS89,
XS96,
XS97 &
XS98
09.2 Processed fish and fish products, including mollusks, 30000 95, XS36,
crustaceans, and echinoderms XS92,
XS95,
XS165,
XS166,
XS167,
XS189,
XS190,
XS191,
XS222,
XS236,
XS244,
XS292,
XS311,
XS312,
XS315
09.3 Semi-preserved fish and fish products, including mollusks, 30000 95, XS291
crustaceans, and echinoderms
09.4 Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish 30000 95, XS3,
products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms XS37,
XS70,
XS90,
XS94 &
XS119
10.1 Fresh eggs 20000 4
10.2 Egg products 20000
10.3 Preserved eggs, including alkaline, salted, and canned eggs 20000
10.4 Egg-based desserts (e.g. custard) 20000
11.6 Table-top sweeteners, including those containing high- 1200 213
intensity sweeteners
12.2 Herbs, spices, seasonings and condiments (e.g. seasoning for 10000
instant noodles)
12.3 Vinegars 50000
12.4 Mustards 50000
12.5 Soups and broths 25000 212
12.6 Sauces and like products 30000 XS302
12.7 Salads (e.g. macaroni salad, potato salad) and sandwich 50000
spreads excluding cocoa- and nut-based spreads of food
categories 04.2.2.5 and 05.1.3
12.9.2.1 Fermented soybean sauce 60000
13.3 Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes 20000
(excluding products of food category 13.1)
13.4 Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction 20000
13.5 Dietetic foods (e.g. supplementary foods for dietary use) 20000
excluding products of food categories 13.1 - 13.4 and 13.6
13.6 Food supplements 20000
14.1.4 Water-based flavoured drinks, including "sport," "energy," or 50000
"electrolyte" drinks and particulated drinks
14.1.5 Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot 10000 7 & 127
cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa
14.2.1 Beer and malt beverages 50000
14.2.2 Cider and perry 1000
14.2.3.3 Fortified grape wine, grape liquor wine, and sweet grape 50000
14.2.4 Wines (other than grape) 1000
14.2.5 Mead 1000
14.2.6 Distilled spirituous beverages containing more than 15% 50000
alcohol
14.2.7 Aromatized alcoholic beverages (e.g. beer, wine and spirituous 50000
cooler-type beverages, low alcoholic refreshers)
15.0 Ready-to-eat savouries 10000
BRILLIANT BLACK (BLACK PN)
INS Name of additive
151 Brilliant black
ML
Food
Food category (mg/ Remark
category No.
kg)
01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 150 52
BROWN HT
INS Name of additive
155 Brown HT
ML
Food
Food category (mg/ Remark
category No.
kg)
01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 150 52
CAROTENOIDS
INS Name of additive
160a(i) beta-Carotenes, synthetic
160a(iii) beta-Carotenes, Blakeslea trispora
160e Carotenal, beta-apo-8'-
160f Carotenoic acid, ethyl ester, beta-apo-8'-
ML
Food
Food category (mg/ Remark
category No.
kg)
01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 150 52, 402
01.3.2 Beverage whiteners 100
01.4.4 Cream analogues 20
01.5.2 Milk and cream powder analogues 100 209
01.6.1 Unripened cheese 100
01.6.2.1 Ripened cheese (including rind) 100
01.6.2.2 Rind of ripened cheese 500
01.6.2.3 Cheese powder (for reconstitution; e.g. for cheese sauces) 100
01.6.4 Processed cheese 100
01.6.5 Cheese analogues 200
01.7 Dairy-based desserts (e.g. pudding, fruit or flavored yogurt) 100
02.1.2 Vegetable oils and fats 25 232
02.1.3 Lard, tallow, fish oil, and other animal fats 25
02.2.1 Butter 25 146 & 291
02.2.2 Fat spreads, dairy fat spreads and blended spreads 35
02.3 Fat emulsions mainly of oil-in-water type, including mixed 200
and/or flavoured products based on fat emulsions
02.4 Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of 150
food category 01.7
03.0 Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet 200
04.1.2.3 Fruit in vinegar, oil, or brine 1000
04.1.2.4 Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit 200 104
04.1.2.5 Jams, jellies, marmelades 200
04.1.2.6 Fruit-based spreads (e.g. chutney) excluding products of food 500
category 04.1.2.5
04.1.2.7 Candied fruit 200
04.1.2.8 Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and 100 182
coconut milk
04.1.2.9 Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based 150
desserts
04.1.2.10 Fermented fruit products 500
04.1.2.11 Fruit fillings for pastries 100
04.2.1.2 Surface-treated fresh vegetables (including mushrooms and 500 4, 16
fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera),
seaweeds, and nuts and seeds
04.2.2.2 Dried vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and 1000
tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweeds, and nuts
and seeds
04.2.2.3 Vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, 50
pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), and seaweeds in vinegar,
oil, brine, or soybean sauce
04.2.2.4 Canned or bottled (pasteurized) or retort pouch vegetables 50
(including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and
legumes, and aloe vera), and seaweeds
04.2.2.5 Vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, 50
pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweed, and nut and seed
purees and spreads (e.g. peanut butter)
04.2.2.6 Vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, 50 92
pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweed, and nut and seed
pulps and preparations (e.g. vegetable desserts and sauces,
candied vegetables) other than food category 04. 2. 2. 5
04.2.2.7 Fermented vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots 50
and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera) and seaweed
products, excluding fermented soybean products of food
categories 06.8.6, 06.8.7, 12.9.1, 12.9.2.1 and 12.9.2.3
05.1.3 Cocoa-based spreads, including fillings 100 XS86
05.1.4 Cocoa and chocolate products 100 183
05.1.5 Imitation chocolate, chocolate substitute products 100
05.2 Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougats, etc. 100 XS309R
other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4
05.3 Chewing gum 100
05.4 Decorations (e.g. for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) 100
and sweet sauces
06.3 Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats 200
06.4.3 Pre-cooked pastas and noodles and like products 1200 153
06.5 Cereal- and starch-based desserts (e.g. rice pudding, tapioca 150
pudding)
06.6 Batters (e.g. for breading or batters for fish or poultry) 500
07.1.2 Crackers, excluding sweet crackers 1000
07.1.3 Other ordinary bakery products (e.g. bagels, pita, English 100
muffins)
07.1.4 Bread-type products, including bread stuffing and bread 200 116
crumbs
07.1.5 Steamed breads and buns 100 216
07.2 Fine bakery wares (sweet, salty, savoury) and mixes 100
08.1.2 Comminuted meat, poultry, and game 100 4 & 16
08.3.1.1 Cured (including salted) non-heat treated processed 100 16
comminuted meat, poultry, and game products
08.3.1.2 Cured (including salted) and dried non-heat treated processed 20 16
comminuted meat, poultry, and game products
08.3.1.3 Fermented non-heat treated processed comminuted meat, 20 16
poultry, and game products
08.3.2 Heat-treated processed comminuted meat, poultry and game 20 16, XS88,
products XS89 &
XS98
08.4 Edible casings (e.g. sausage casings) 100
09.1.1 Fresh fish 300 4
09.1.2 Fresh mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 100 4,16,
XS292,
XS312,
XS315
09.2 Processed fish and fish products, including mollusks, 100 95, 304,
crustaceans, and echinoderms XS36,
XS92,
XS95,
XS165,
XS167,
XS189,
XS190,
XS191,
XS222,
XS236,
XS244,
XS291,
XS311,
XS312,
XS315
09.3 Semi-preserved fish and fish products, including mollusks, 100 95, XS291
crustaceans, and echinoderms
09.4 Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish 100 95, XS3,
products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms XS37,
XS70,
XS90,
XS94 &
XS119
10.1 Fresh eggs 1000 4
10.4 Egg-based desserts (e.g. custard) 150
11.4 Other sugars and syrups (e.g. xylose, maple syrup, sugar 50 217
toppings)
12.2.2 Seasonings and condiments 500
12.4 Mustards 300
12.5 Soups and broths 300 341
12.6 Sauces and like products 500 XS302
12.7 Salads (e.g. macaroni salad, potato salad) and sandwich 50
spreads excluding cocoa- and nut-based spreads of food
categories 04.2.2.5 and 05.1.3
13.3 Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes 50
(excluding products of food category 13.1)
13.4 Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction 50
13.5 Dietetic foods (e.g. supplementary foods for dietary use) 300
excluding products of food categories 13.1 - 13.4 and 13.6
13.6 Food supplements 300
14.1.4 Water-based flavoured drinks, including "sport," "energy," or 100
"electrolyte" drinks and particulated drinks
14.2.2 Cider and perry 200
14.2.4 Wines (other than grape) 200
14.2.6 Distilled spirituous beverages containing more than 15% 200
alcohol
14.2.7 Aromatized alcoholic beverages (e.g. beer, wine and spirituous 200
cooler-type beverages, low alcoholic refreshers)
15.1 Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and 100
tubers, pulses and legumes)
15.2 Processed nuts, including coated nuts and nut mixtures (e.g. 100
dried fruit)
CAROTENES, BETA-, VEGETABLE
INS Name of additive
160a(ii) beta-Carotenes, vegetable
ML
Food
Food category (mg/ Remark
category No.
kg)
01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 1000 52, 401
01.3.2 Beverage whiteners 1000
01.4.4 Cream analogues 20
01.5.2 Milk and cream powder analogues 1000
01.6.1 Unripened cheese 600
01.6.2.1 Ripened cheese (including rind) 600
01.6.2.2 Rind of ripened cheese 1000
01.6.2.3 Cheese powder (for reconstitution; e.g. for cheese sauces) 1000
01.6.4 Processed cheese 1000
01.6.5 Cheese analogues 1000 3
01.7 Dairy-based desserts (e.g. pudding, fruit or flavored yogurt) 1000
02.1.2 Vegetable oils and fats 1000
02.1.3 Lard, tallow, fish oil, and other animal fats 1000
02.2.1 Butter 600
02.2.2 Fat spreads, dairy fat spreads and blended spreads 1000
02.3 Fat emulsions mainly of oil-in-water type, including mixed 1000
and/or flavoured products based on fat emulsions
02.4 Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of 1000
food category 01.7
03.0 Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet 1000
04.1.2.3 Fruit in vinegar, oil, or brine 1000
04.1.2.4 Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit 1000 104
04.1.2.5 Jams, jellies, marmelades 1000
04.1.2.6 Fruit-based spreads (e.g. chutney) excluding products of food 500
category 04.1.2.5
04.1.2.7 Candied fruit 1000
04.1.2.8 Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and 100 182
coconut milk
04.1.2.9 Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based 1000
desserts
04.1.2.10 Fermented fruit products 200
04.1.2.11 Fruit fillings for pastries 100
04.2.2.2 Dried vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and 200
tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweeds, and nuts
and seeds
04.2.2.3 Vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, 1320
pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), and seaweeds in vinegar,
oil, brine, or soybean sauce
04.2.2.4 Canned or bottled (pasteurized) or retort pouch vegetables 200
(including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and
legumes, and aloe vera), and seaweeds
04.2.2.5 Vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, 1000
pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweed, and nut and seed
purees and spreads (e.g. peanut butter)
04.2.2.6 Vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, 1000 92
pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweed, and nut and seed
pulps and preparations (e.g. vegetable desserts and sauces,
candied vegetables) other than food category 04. 2. 2. 5
04.2.2.7 Fermented vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots 1000
and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera) and seaweed
products, excluding fermented soybean products of food
categories 06.8.6, 06.8.7, 12.9.1, 12.9.2.1 and 12.9.2.3
05.1.3 Cocoa-based spreads, including fillings 100 XS86
05.1.4 Cocoa and chocolate products 100 183
05.1.5 Imitation chocolate, chocolate substitute products 100
05.2 Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougats, etc. 500 XS309R
other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4
05.3 Chewing gum 500
05.4 Decorations (e.g. for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) 20000
and sweet sauces
06.3 Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats 400
06.4.2 Dried pastas and noodles and like products 1000 211
06.4.3 Pre-cooked pastas and noodles and like products 1000 153
06.5 Cereal- and starch-based desserts (e.g. rice pudding, tapioca 1000
pudding)
06.6 Batters (e.g. for breading or batters for fish or poultry) 1000
07.1.2 Crackers, excluding sweet crackers 1000
07.1.4 Bread-type products, including bread stuffing and bread 1000
crumbs
07.2 Fine bakery wares (sweet, salty, savoury) and mixes 1000
08.1.2 Comminuted meat, poultry, and game 20 4 & 16
08.2 Processed meat, poultry and game products in whole pieces or 5000 16, XS96
cuts & XS97
08.3.1 Non-heat treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and 20 118
game products
08.3.2 Heat-treated processed comminuted meat, poultry and game 20 XS88,
products XS89 &
XS98
08.3.3 Frozen processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game 5000 16
products
08.4 Edible casings (e.g. sausage casings) 5000
09.1.1 Fresh fish 100 4, 16 & 50
09.2.2 Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including 100 304
mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms
09.2.3 Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including mollusks, 1000 16
crustaceans, and echinoderms
09.2.4.1 Cooked fish and fish products 1000 95
09.2.4.2 Cooked mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 1000
09.2.4.3 Fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, 1000 16
and echinoderms
09.2.5 Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, 1000 XS167,
including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms XS189,
XS222,
XS236,
XS244,
XS311
09.3.1 Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and 1000 16
echinoderms, marinated and/or in jelly
09.3.2 Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and 1000 16
echinoderms, pickled and/or in brine
09.3.3 Salmon substitutes, caviar, and other fish roe products 1000 XS291
09.3.4 Semi-preserved fish and fish products, including mollusks, 1000 16
crustaceans, and echinoderms (e.g. fish paste), excluding
products of food categories 09.3.1 - 09.3.3
09.4 Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish 500 XS3,
products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms XS37,
XS70,
XS90,
XS94 &
XS119
10.1 Fresh eggs 1000 4
10.2 Egg products 1000
10.4 Egg-based desserts (e.g. custard) 150
11.4 Other sugars and syrups (e.g. xylose, maple syrup, sugar 50
toppings)
12.2.2 Seasonings and condiments 500
12.4 Mustards 1000
12.5 Soups and broths 1000 341
12.6.1 Emulsified sauces and dips (e.g. mayonnaise, salad dressing, 2000
onion dip)
12.6.2 Non-emulsified sauces (e.g. ketchup, cheese sauce, cream 2000
sauce, brown gravy)
12.6.3 Mixes for sauces and gravies 2000
12.7 Salads (e.g. macaroni salad, potato salad) and sandwich 1000
spreads excluding cocoa- and nut-based spreads of food
categories 04.2.2.5 and 05.1.3
13.3 Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes 600
(excluding products of food category 13.1)
13.4 Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction 600
13.5 Dietetic foods (e.g. supplementary foods for dietary use) 600
excluding products of food categories 13.1 - 13.4 and 13.6
13.6 Food supplements 600
14.1.4 Water-based flavoured drinks, including "sport," "energy," or 2000
"electrolyte" drinks and particulated drinks
14.2.1 Beer and malt beverages 600
14.2.2 Cider and perry 600
14.2.4 Wines (other than grape) 600
14.2.6 Distilled spirituous beverages containing more than 15% 600
alcohol
14.2.7 Aromatized alcoholic beverages (e.g. beer, wine and spirituous 600
cooler-type beverages, low alcoholic refreshers)
15.1 Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and 100
tubers, pulses and legumes)
15.2 Processed nuts, including coated nuts and nut mixtures (e.g. 20000 3
dried fruit)
15.3 Snacks - fish-based 100
ANNATTO EXTRACTS, BIXIN-BASED
INS Name of additive
160b(i) Annatto extracts, bixin-based
ML
Food
Food category (mg/ Remark
category No.
kg)
01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 20 8, 52
02.2.1 Butter 20 8
09.2.5 Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, 10 8, 382,
including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms XS167,
XS189,
XS222,
XS236,
XS244
ANNATTO EXTRACTS, NORBIXIN-BASED
INS Name of additive
160b(ii) Annatto extracts, norbixin-based
ML
Food
Food category (mg/ Remark
category No.
kg)
01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 10 52, 185
LUTEIN FROM TAGETES ERECTA
INS Name of additive
161b(i) Lutein from Tagetes erecta
ML
Food
Food category (mg/ Remark
category No.
kg)
01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 100 52, 400
CANTHAXANTHIN
INS Name of additive
161g Canthaxanthin
ML
Food
Food category (mg/ Remark
category No.
kg)
01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 15 52, 170
01.6.1 Unripened cheese 15 201
01.6.2 Ripened cheese 15 201
01.6.4.2 Flavoured processed cheese, including cheese containing fruit, 15
vegetables, meat, etc.
01.6.5 Cheese analogues 15
01.7 Dairy-based desserts (e.g. pudding, fruit or flavored yogurt) 15 170
02.2.2 Fat spreads, dairy fat spreads and blended spreads 15 214 & 215
02.3 Fat emulsions mainly of oil-in-water type, including mixed 15
and/or flavoured products based on fat emulsions
02.4 Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of 15
food category 01.7
04.1.2.5 Jams, jellies, marmelades 200 5
04.1.2.6 Fruit-based spreads (e.g. chutney) excluding products of food 15
category 04.1.2.5
04.1.2.9 Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based 15
desserts
04.1.2.11 Fruit fillings for pastries 15
04.2.2.2 Dried vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and 10
tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweeds, and nuts
and seeds
06.4.2 Dried pastas and noodles and like products 15 211
06.4.3 Pre-cooked pastas and noodles and like products 15 153
06.5 Cereal- and starch-based desserts (e.g. rice pudding, tapioca 15
pudding)
08.3.1.1 Cured (including salted) non-heat treated processed 100 4, 16 & 118
comminuted meat, poultry, and game products
09.2.1 Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, 35 95, XS36,
crustaceans, and echinoderms XS92,
XS95,
XS165,
XS190,
XS191,
XS292,
XS312,
XS315
09.2.5 Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, 15 22, XS167,
including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms XS189,
XS222,
XS236,
XS244,
XS311
09.3.3 Salmon substitutes, caviar, and other fish roe products 15 XS291
09.4 Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish 15 XS3,
products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms XS37,
XS70,
XS90,
XS94 &
XS119
10.1 Fresh eggs GMP 4
10.4 Egg-based desserts (e.g. custard) 15
11.4 Other sugars and syrups (e.g. xylose, maple syrup, sugar 15
toppings)
12.2.2 Seasonings and condiments 20
12.5.2 Mixed for soups and broths 30 XS117
12.6 Sauces and like products 30 XS302
14.1.4.1 Carbonated water-based flavoured drinks 5
14.1.4.2 Non-carbonated water-based flavoured drinks, including 5
punches and ades
14.1.4.3 Concentrates (liquid or solid) for water-based flavoured drinks 5 127
14.2.6 Distilled spirituous beverages containing more than 15% 5
alcohol
14.2.7 Aromatized alcoholic beverages (e.g. beer, wine and spirituous 5
cooler-type beverages, low alcoholic refreshers)
15.1 Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and 45
tubers, pulses and legumes)
ZEAXANTHIN, SYNTHETIC
INS Name of additive
161h(i) Zeaxanthin, synthetic
ML
Food
Food category (mg/ Remark
category No.
kg)
01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 100 52, 400
GRAPE SKIN EXTRACT
INS Name of additive
163(ii) Grape skin extract
ML
Food
Food category (mg/ Remark
category No.
kg)
01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 100 52, 181,
402
01.4.4 Cream analogues 150 181 & 201
01.5.2 Milk and cream powder analogues 150 181, 201 &
209
01.6.2.2 Rind of ripened cheese 1000
01.6.4.2 Flavoured processed cheese, including cheese containing fruit, 1000
vegetables, meat, etc.
01.6.5 Cheese analogues 1000
01.7 Dairy-based desserts (e.g. pudding, fruit or flavored yogurt) 200 181
02.4 Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of 200 181
food category 01.7
03.0 Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet 100 181
04.1.2.3 Fruit in vinegar, oil, or brine 1500
04.1.2.4 Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit 1500 181, 267
04.1.2.5 Jams, jellies, marmelades 500 181
04.1.2.6 Fruit-based spreads (e.g. chutney) excluding products of food 500 181
category 04.1.2.5
04.1.2.7 Candied fruit 1000
04.1.2.8 Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and 500 179, 181 &
coconut milk 182
04.1.2.9 Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based 500 181
desserts
04.1.2.10 Fermented fruit products 500 181
04.1.2.11 Fruit fillings for pastries 500 181
04.2.2.3 Vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, 100 179 & 181
pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), and seaweeds in vinegar,
oil, brine, or soybean sauce
04.2.2.5 Vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, 100 179 & 181
pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweed, and nut and seed
purees and spreads (e.g. peanut butter)
04.2.2.6 Vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, 100 92 & 181
pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweed, and nut and seed
pulps and preparations (e.g. vegetable desserts and sauces,
candied vegetables) other than food category 04. 2. 2. 5
04.2.2.7 Fermented vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots 100 181
and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera) and seaweed
products, excluding fermented soybean products of food
categories 06.8.6, 06.8.7, 12.9.1, 12.9.2.1 and 12.9.2.3
05.1.3 Cocoa-based spreads, including fillings 200 181 &
XS86
05.1.4 Cocoa and chocolate products 200 181 & 183
05.1.5 Imitation chocolate, chocolate substitute products 200 181
05.2.2 Soft candy 1700 181,
XS309R
05.3 Chewing gum 500 181
05.4 Decorations (e.g. for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) 500 181
and sweet sauces
06.3 Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats 200
06.5 Cereal- and starch-based desserts (e.g. rice pudding, tapioca 200 181
pudding)
07.1.2 Crackers, excluding sweet crackers 200 181
07.1.4 Bread-type products, including bread stuffing and bread 200 181
crumbs
08.1.2 Comminuted meat, poultry, and game 1000 4, 16 & 94
08.2 Processed meat, poultry and game products in whole pieces or 5000 16, XS96
cuts &XS97
08.3 Processed comminuted meat, poultry and game products 5000 16, XS88,
XS89 &
XS98
08.4 Edible casings (e.g. sausage casings) 5000
09.2.2 Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including 500 16, XS166
mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms
09.2.3 Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including mollusks, GMP 16 & 95
crustaceans, and echinoderms
09.2.4.1 Cooked fish and fish products 500 95
09.2.4.2 Cooked mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 1000
09.2.4.3 Fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, 1000 16 & 95
and echinoderms
09.2.5 Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, 1000 22, XS167,
including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms XS189,
XS222,
XS236,
XS244,
XS311
09.3.1 Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and 500 16
echinoderms, marinated and/or in jelly
09.3.2 Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and 1500 16
echinoderms, pickled and/or in brine
09.3.3 Salmon substitutes, caviar, and other fish roe products 1500 XS291
09.3.4 Semi-preserved fish and fish products, including mollusks, 1500 16
crustaceans, and echinoderms (e.g. fish paste), excluding
products of food categories 09.3.1 - 09.3.3
09.4 Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish 1500 16, XS3,
products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms XS37,
XS70,
XS90,
XS94 &
XS119
10.1 Fresh eggs 1500 4
10.4 Egg-based desserts (e.g. custard) 200 181
12.4 Mustards 200 181
12.5 Soups and broths 500 181 &
XS117
12.6.1 Emulsified sauces and dips (e.g. mayonnaise, salad dressing, 300 181
onion dip)
12.6.2 Non-emulsified sauces (e.g. ketchup, cheese sauce, cream 300 181
sauce, brown gravy)
12.6.3 Mixes for sauces and gravies 300 181
12.7 Salads (e.g. macaroni salad, potato salad) and sandwich 1500
spreads excluding cocoa- and nut-based spreads of food
categories 04.2.2.5 and 05.1.3
13.3 Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes 250 181
(excluding products of food category 13.1)
13.4 Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction 250 181
13.5 Dietetic foods (e.g. supplementary foods for dietary use) 250 181
excluding products of food categories 13.1 - 13.4 and 13.6
13.6 Food supplements 500 181
14.1.4 Water-based flavoured drinks, including "sport," "energy," or 300 181
"electrolyte" drinks and particulated drinks
14.2.2 Cider and perry 300 181
14.2.4 Wines (other than grape) 300 181
14.2.6 Distilled spirituous beverages containing more than 15% 300 181
alcohol
14.2.7 Aromatized alcoholic beverages (e.g. beer, wine and spirituous 300 181
cooler-type beverages, low alcoholic refreshers)
15.1 Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and 500 181
tubers, pulses and legumes)
15.2 Processed nuts, including coated nuts and nut mixtures (e.g. 300 181
dried fruit)
15.3 Snacks - fish-based 400
CALCIUM CARBONATE
INS Name of additive
170(i) Calcium carbonate
ML
Food
Food category (mg/ Remark
category No.
kg)
01.2.1.2 Fermented milks (plain), heat-treated after fermentation GMP
01.2.2 Renneted milk (plain) GMP
01.4.1 Pasteurized cream (plain) GMP 236
01.4.2 Sterilized and UHT creams, whipping and whipped creams, GMP
and reduced fat creams (plain)
01.8.2 Dried whey and whey products, excluding whey cheeses 10000
04.2.2.7 Fermented vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots GMP
and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera) and seaweed
products, excluding fermented soybean products of food
categories 06.8.6, 06.8.7, 12.9.1, 12.9.2.1 and 12.9.2.3
06.4.1 Fresh pastas and noodles and like products GMP
06.4.2 Dried pastas and noodles and like products GMP 256
08.1.1 Fresh meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or cuts GMP 4, 16 & 326
08.1.2 Comminuted meat, poultry, and game GMP 4, 16 & 281
09.2.1 Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, GMP 95, XS36
crustaceans, and echinoderms XS92,
XS95,
XS165,
XS190,
XS191,
XS292,
XS312,
XS315
09.2.2 Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including GMP 16, XS166
mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms
09.2.3 Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including mollusks, GMP 16
crustaceans, and echinoderms
09.2.4 Cooked and/or fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, GMP
crustaceans, and echinoderms
09.2.5 Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, GMP XS167,
including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms XS189,
XS222,
XS236,
XS244,
XS311
12.1.1 Salt GMP
12.1.2 Salt Substitutes GMP
13.2 Complementary foods for infants and young children GMP
14.1.5 Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot GMP 160
cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa
IRON OXIDES
INS Name of additive
172(i) Iron oxide, black
172(ii) Iron oxide, red
172(iii) Iron oxide, yellow
Food
category No. ML
Food category (mg/ Remark
kg)
APPENDIX 2B
MAXIMUM USE LEVELS OF FOOD ADDITIVES NOT SPECIFIED IN CODEX STAN 192-
1995 (2018)
(Enclosed with the Circular No. 24/2019/TT-BYT dated August 30, 2019)
CURCUMIN
INS Name of additive
100(i) Curcumin
TURMERIC
INS Name of additive
100(ii) Turmeric
TARTRAZINE
INS Name of additive
102 Tartrazine
AZORUBINE (CARMOISINE)
INS Name of additive
122 Azorubine (Carmoisine)
ERYTHROSINE
INS Name of additive
127 Erythrosine
VEGETABLE CARBON
INS Name of additive
153 Vegetable carbon
BROWN HT
INS Name of additive
155 Brown HT
PAPRIKA OLEORESIN
INS Name of additive
160c(i) Paprika oleoresin
ANTHOCYANINS
INS Name of additive
163(iii) Blackcurrant extract
163(iv) Purple corn color
163(vi) Black carrot extract
163(vii) Purple sweet potato color
163(viii) Red radish color
POTASSIUM SORBATE
INS Name of additive
202 Potassium sorbate
SODIUM BENZOATE
INS Name of additive
211 Sodium benzoate
NISIN
INS Name of additive
234 Nisin
SODIUM NITRIT
INS Name of additive
250 Sodium nitrite
SODIUM NITRATE
INS Name of additive
251 Sodium nitrate
SODIUM DEHYDROACETATE
INS Name of additive
266 Sodium dehydroacetate
ASCORBIC ACID, L-
INS Name of additive
300 Ascorbic acid (L-)
CITRIC ACID
INS Name of additive
330 Citric acid
PHOSPHORIC ACID
INS Name of additive
338 Phosphoric acid
PHOSPHATES
SUCCINIC ACID
INS Name of additive
363 Succinic acid
DISODIUM SUCCINAT
INS Name of additive
364(ii) Disodium succinat
ROSEMARY EXTRACT
INS Name of additive
392 Rosemary extract
DISODIUM DIPHOSPHATE
INS Name of additive
450(i) Disodium diphosphate
SUCROGLYCERIDES
INS Name of additive
474 Sucroglycerides
SORBITAN TRISTEARAT
INS Name of additive
492 Sorbitan tristearat
SODIUM BICARBONATE
INS Name of additive
500(ii) Sodium bicarbonate
CALCIUM SULFATE
INS Name of additive
516 Calcium sulfate
4 - HEXYL RESORCINOL
INS Name of additive
586 4-hexyl resorcinol
Food category ML (mg/kg) Notes
2
Frozen and deep frozen crustaceans and molluscs
ALANINE, DL -
INS Name of additive
639 Alanine, DL -
GLYCIN
INS Name of additive
640 Glycin
ACESULFAME POTASSIUM
INS Name of additive
950 Acesulfame potassium
ASPARTAME
INS Name of additive
951 Aspartame
SODIUM POLYACRYLATE
INS Name of additive
1210 Sodium polyacrylate
Food category ML (mg/kg) Notes
2000
Pre-cooked pastas and noodles and like products
DISTARCH PHOSPHATE
INS Name of additive
1412 Distarch phosphate
PROPYLENE GLYCOL
INS Name of additive
1520 Propylene glycol
8 As bixin.
9 Except for use in ready-to-drink coffee products at 10 000 mg/kg.
10 As ascorbyl stearate.
13 As benzoic acid.
16 For use in glaze, coatings or decorations for fruit, vegetables, meat or fish only.
17 As cyclamic acid.
18 As added level; residue not detected in ready-to-eat food.
20 For use in products conforming to the Codex stan 167- 1989 and Codex stan 244-
2004 at 200 mg/kg, and in smoked fish and smoke-flavored fish in products
conforming to the Codex stan 311-2013 at 2000 mg/kg for reduced oxygen
packaged product only.
21 As anhydrous calcium disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetate.
22 For use in smoked fish paste only.
23 As iron.
24 As anhydrous sodium ferrocyanide.
26 As steviol equivalents.
27 As para-hydroxybenzoic acid.
28 For use in wheat flour conforming to the Codex stan 152-1985 at 2 000 mg/kg.
29 For non-standardized food only.
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30 As residual NO3 ion
33 As phosphorus.
40 Pentasodium triphosphate (INS 451(i)) only, to enhance the effectiveness of benzoates and sorbates.
42 As sorbic acid.
43 As tin.
As residual SO .
44 2
45 As tartaric acid.
46 As thiodipropionic acid.
55 Within the limits for sodium, calcium, and potassium specified in the Codex stan 72-1981: singly or
in combination with other sodium, calcium, and/or potassium salts.
57 GMP is 1 part benzoyl peroxide and not more than 6 parts of the subject additive by weight.
58 As calcium.
59 For use as a packaging gas only.
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60 The CO2 content in finished still wine shall not exceed 4000 mg/kg at 20 C.
61 For use in minced fish only.
62 As copper.
63 For non-standardized food and for breaded or batter coatings in food conforming to the Codex stan
166- 1989.
64 For use in dry beans only.
66 As formaldehyde.
67 For use in liquid egg whites at 8 800 mg/kg as phosphorus, and in liquid whole eggs at 14 700 mg/kg as
phosphorus.
70 As the acid.
71 Calcium, potassium and sodium salts only.
74 Excluding liquid whey and whey products used as ingredients in infant formula.
2
80 Equivalent to 2 mg/dm surface application to a maximum depth of 5 mm.
2
81 Equivalent to 1 mg/dm surface application to a maximum depth of 5 mm.
82 For use in shrimp (Crangon crangon and Crangon vulgaris) at 6 000 mg/kg.
83 L(+)-form only.
85 Use level in sausage casings; residue in sausage prepared with such casings should not exceed 100 mg/kg.
95 For non-standardized foods: for use in surimi and fish roe products only.
101 When used in combination as emulsifiers: INS 442, 476, 491, 492, 432, 433, 435, 436, the
total combined use level shall not exceed 15,000 mg/kg.
104 Excluding canned pears and canned pineapples conforming to the Codex stan 319- 2015.
105 For use in dried gourd strips (Kampyo) at 5 000 mg/kg.
107 For use of INS 535 and INS 536 in food-grade dendridic salt at 29 mg/kg as anhydrous sodium
ferrocyanide.
109 Use level reported as 25 lbs/1 000 gal x (0.45 kg/lb) x (1 gal/3.75 L) x (1 L/kg) x (10E6mg/kg) =
3000 mg/kg
110 For use in frozen French fried potatoes only.
111 For use in dried glucose syrup used in the manufacture of sugar confectionery at 150 mg/kg and glucose
syrup used in the manufacture of sugar confectionery at 400 mg/kg.
125 For use in a mixture with vegetable oil only, as a release agent for baking pans.
130 Singly or in combination: INS 310, INS 319, INS 320 and INS 321.
131 For use as a flavor carrier only.
151 For use in hydrolyzed protein and/or amino acid-based formula at 1 000 mg/kg.
152 For use in frying only.
156 For use in microsweets and breath freshening mints at 2 500 mg/kg.
157 For use in microsweets and breath freshening mints at 2 000 mg/kg .
158 For use in microsweets and breath freshening mints at 1 000 mg/kg .
160 For use in ready-to-drink products and pre-mixes for ready-to-drink products only.
162 For use in dehydrated products and salami-type products only.
163 For use in microsweets and breath freshening mints at 3 000 mg/kg.
164 For use in microsweets and breath freshening mints at 30 000 mg/kg .
172 For use in fruit sauces, fruit toppings, coconut cream, coconut milk and "fruit
bars" at 50 mg/kg.
173 Excluding instant noodles containing vegetables and eggs.
174 Singly or in combination: INS 554, INS 556 and INS 559.
175 Except for use in jelly-type fruit-based desserts at 200 mg/kg.
176 For use in canned liquid coffee only.
177 For non-standardized food and for minced fish flesh and breaded or batter
coatings conforming to the Codex stan 166- 1989.
178 As carminic acid.
179 For use in restoring the natural color lost in processing only.
180 Singly or in combination: INS 320 and INS 321.
181 As anthocyanin.
182 Excluding coconut milk.
183 For use in surface decoration only.
184 For use in nutrient coated rice grain premixes only.
185 As norbixin.
186 For use in flours with additives only.
187 INS 304 only.
188 If used in combination with aspartame-acesulfame salt (INS 962), the combined
maximum use level, expressed as acesulfame potassium, should not exceed this
level.
189 Excluding rolled oats.
190 For use in fermented milk drinks at 500 mg/kg.
191 If used in combination with aspartame-acesulfame salt (INS 962), the combined
maximum use level, expressed as aspartame, should not exceed this level.
192 For use in liquid products only.
193 For use in crustacean and fish pastes only.
194 For use in instant noodles conforming to the CODEX STAN 249-2006 only.
195 Singly or in combination: INS 319, INS 320 and INS 321.
196 Singly or in combination: INS 320, INS 321 and INS 310.
197 Singly or in combination: INS 321 and INS 310.
198 For use in solid products (e.g., energy, meal replacement or fortified bars) only.
199 For use in microsweets and breath freshening mints at 6 000 mg/kg as steviol
equivalents.
200 For use in Japanese style 'lachs ham' of pork loin (cured and non-heat-treated) at
120 mg/kg as steviol equivalents.
201 For use in flavored products only.
202 For use in brine used in the production of sausage only.
203 For use in chewable supplements only.
204 For use in longan and lichee at 50 mg/kg.
205 For use to prevent browning of certain light colored vegetables at 50 mg/kg.
206 For use as a bleaching agent in products conforming to the Codex stan 240-2003
at 30 mg/kg.
207 For use in soybean sauce intended for further processing at 50 000 mg/kg.
208 For use in dried and dehydrated products only.
209 Excluding products conforming to the Codex stan 251-2006.
210 For non-standardized food and for use as a humectant in products conforming to
the Codex stan 166-1989; and for use as a thickener in breading or batter coatings
for products conforming to the Codex stan 166-1989.
211 For use in noodles only.
212 For use in products conforming to the Codex stan 117 - 1981 at 3 000 mg/kg.
213 For use in liquid products containing high intensity sweeteners only .
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