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Food Additive Group Details

SUCROSE ESTERS

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)

INS No. Additive Name
GSFA Provisions for SUCROSE ESTERS
Number Food Category Max Level Notes
Food Category Hierarchy 14.2.7 Aromatized alcoholic beverages (e.g. beer, wine and spirituous cooler-type beverages, low alcoholic refreshers) 5,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 06.6 Batters (e.g. for breading or batters for fish or poultry) 10,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 01.3.2 Beverage whiteners 20,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 07.1 Bread and ordinary bakery wares 3,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 06.3 Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats 10,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 06.5 Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g. rice pudding, tapioca pudding) 5,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 01.6.5 Cheese analogues 10,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 05.3 Chewing gum 12,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 12.6.4 Clear sauces (e.g. fish sauce) 10,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 05.1.1 Cocoa mixes (powders) and cocoa mass/cake 10,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 05.1.2 Cocoa mixes (syrups) 10,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 05.1.3 Cocoa-based spreads, including fillings 10,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 14.1.5 Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa 1,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 05.2 Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougats, etc. other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4 5,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 09.2.4.1 Cooked fish and fish products 4,500 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 01.4.4 Cream analogues 10,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 01.7 Dairy-based desserts (e.g. pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt) 5,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 05.4 Decorations (e.g. for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) and sweet sauces 5,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 13.3 Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes (excluding products of food category 13.1) 5,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 13.4 Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction 5,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 14.2.6 Distilled spirituous beverages containing more than 15% alcohol 5,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 06.4.2 Dried pastas and noodles and like products 4,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 03.0 Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet 5,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 10.4 Egg-based desserts (e.g. custard) 5,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 12.6.1 Emulsified sauces and dips (e.g. mayonnaise, salad dressing, onion dip) 2,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 02.3 Fat emulsions mainly of type oil-in-water, including mixed and/or flavoured products based on fat emulsions 5,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 02.2.2 Fat spreads, dairy fat spreads and blended spreads 10,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 02.4 Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of food category 01.7 5,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 07.2 Fine bakery wares (sweet, salty, savoury) and mixes 10,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 5,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 13.6 Food supplements 20,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 06.4.1 Fresh pastas and noodles and like products 2,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 04.1.2.8 Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and coconut milk 1,500 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 04.1.2.9 Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based desserts 5,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 08.3.2 Heat-treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products 5,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 08.2.2 Heat-treated processed meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or cuts 5,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 12.2.1 Herbs and spices 2,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 05.1.5 Imitation chocolate, chocolate substitute products 6,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 01.5.2 Milk and cream powder analogues 5,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 01.5.1 Milk powder and cream powder (plain) 10,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 12.6.3 Mixes for sauces and gravies 10,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 12.6.2 Non-emulsified sauces (e.g. ketchup, cheese sauce, cream sauce, brown gravy) 10,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 01.1.2 Other fluid milk (plain) 1,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 06.7 Pre-cooked or processed rice products, including rice cakes (Oriental type only) 10,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 06.4.3 Pre-cooked pastas and noodles and like products 2,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 01.6.4 Processed cheese 3,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 12.2.2 Seasonings and condiments 20,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 15.1 Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes) 5,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 12.5 Soups and broths 2,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 06.8.1 Soybean-based beverages 20,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 01.4.2 Sterilized and UHT creams, whipping and whipped creams, and reduced fat creams (plain) 5,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 04.1.1.2 Surface-treated fresh fruit 1,500 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 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 5,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 14.1.4 Water-based flavoured drinks, including "sport," "energy," or "electrolyte" drinks and particulated drinks 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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