Food Additive Group Details
SULFITES
The provisions that follow are defined at the additive group level, and thus apply to the total content of the additives participating in this group. Additives that make up this group are provided for reference only.
Participating Additive(s)
GSFA Provisions for SULFITES
Number
Food Category
Max Level
Notes
14.2.7
Aromatized alcoholic beverages (e.g. beer, wine and spirituous cooler-type beverages, low alcoholic refreshers)
250 mg/kg
14.2.1
Beer and malt beverages
50 mg/kg
11.2
Brown sugar excluding products of food category 11.1.3
40 mg/kg
04.1.2.7
Candied fruit
100 mg/kg
04.2.2.4
Canned or bottled (pasteurized) or retort pouch vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), and seaweeds
50 mg/kg
14.2.2
Cider and perry
200 mg/kg
14.1.2.3
Concentrates for fruit juice
50 mg/kg
14.1.3.3
Concentrates for fruit nectar
50 mg/kg
14.1.2.4
Concentrates for vegetable juice
50 mg/kg
14.1.3.4
Concentrates for vegetable nectar
50 mg/kg
09.2.4.2
Cooked mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms
150 mg/kg
14.2.6
Distilled spirituous beverages containing more than 15% alcohol
200 mg/kg
04.1.2.2
Dried fruit
1,000 mg/kg
04.2.2.2
Dried vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweeds, and nuts and seeds
500 mg/kg
04.1.2.10
Fermented fruit products
100 mg/kg
04.2.2.7
Fermented vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots 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
500 mg/kg
07.2
Fine bakery wares (sweet, salty, savoury) and mixes
50 mg/kg
06.2.1
Flours
200 mg/kg
09.1.2
Fresh mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms
100 mg/kg
09.2.1
Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms
100 mg/kg
04.1.2.1
Frozen fruit
500 mg/kg
04.2.2.1
Frozen vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweeds, and nuts and seeds
50 mg/kg
04.1.2.11
Fruit fillings for pastries
100 mg/kg
04.1.2.3
Fruit in vinegar, oil, or brine
100 mg/kg
14.1.2.1
Fruit juice
50 mg/kg
14.1.3.1
Fruit nectar
50 mg/kg
04.1.2.8
Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and coconut milk
100 mg/kg
04.1.2.9
Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based desserts
100 mg/kg
04.1.2.6
Fruit-based spreads (e.g. chutney) excluding products of food category 04.1.2.5
100 mg/kg
09.4
Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms
150 mg/kg
14.2.3
Grape wines
350 mg/kg
12.2.1
Herbs and spices
150 mg/kg
04.1.2.5
Jams, jellies, marmelades
100 mg/kg
14.2.5
Mead
200 mg/kg
12.4
Mustards
250 mg/kg
11.4
Other sugars and syrups (e.g. xylose, maple syrup, sugar toppings)
40 mg/kg
04.2.1.3
Peeled, cut or shredded fresh vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweeds, and nuts and seeds
50 mg/kg
11.1.5
Plantation or mill white sugar
70 mg/kg
11.1.2
Powdered sugar, powdered dextrose
15 mg/kg
06.4.3
Pre-cooked pastas and noodles and like products
20 mg/kg
12.6
Sauces and like products
300 mg/kg
12.2.2
Seasonings and condiments
200 mg/kg
09.2.5
Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms
30 mg/kg
15.1
Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes)
50 mg/kg
11.1.3
Soft white sugar, soft brown sugar, glucose syrup, dried glucose syrup, raw cane sugar
20 mg/kg
06.2.2
Starches
50 mg/kg
11.3
Sugar solutions and syrups, also (partially) inverted, including treacle and molasses, excluding products of food category 11.1.3
70 mg/kg
04.1.1.2
Surface-treated fresh fruit
30 mg/kg
04.2.2.6
Vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, 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
300 mg/kg
04.2.2.5
Vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweed, and nut and seed purees and spreads (e.g., peanut butter)
500 mg/kg
14.1.2.2
Vegetable juice
50 mg/kg
14.1.3.2
Vegetable nectar
50 mg/kg
04.2.2.3
Vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), and seaweeds in vinegar, oil, brine, or soybean sauce
100 mg/kg
12.3
Vinegars
100 mg/kg
14.1.4
Water-based flavoured drinks, including "sport," "energy," or "electrolyte" drinks and particulated drinks
70 mg/kg
11.1.1
White sugar, dextrose anhydrous, dextrose monohydrate, fructose
15 mg/kg
14.2.4
Wines (other than grape)
200 mg/kg
Note: Unless otherwise specified, food additive provisions apply to the food category indicated (e.g. Dairy), as well as to all subcategories of that category (e.g. Cheese, Ripened Cheese, etc.).
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