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Food Additive Group Details

CHLOROPHYLLS AND CHLOROPHYLLINS, COPPER COMPLEXES

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 CHLOROPHYLLS AND CHLOROPHYLLINS, COPPER COMPLEXES
Number Food Category Max Level Notes
Food Category Hierarchy 07.1.4 Bread-type products, including bread stuffing and bread crumbs 6 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 04.1.2.7 Candied fruit 250 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 04.1.2.4 Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit 100 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 06.5 Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g. rice pudding, tapioca pudding) 75 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 01.6.5 Cheese analogues 50 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 01.6.2.3 Cheese powder (for reconstitution; e.g. for cheese sauces) 50 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 05.3 Chewing gum 700 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 05.1.4 Cocoa and chocolate products 700 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 05.1.3 Cocoa-based spreads, including fillings 6 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 09.2.4.1 Cooked fish and fish products 30 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 04.1.2.12 Cooked fruit 100 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 04.2.2.8 Cooked or fried vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), and seaweeds 100 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 01.7 Dairy-based desserts (e.g. pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt) 500 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 05.4 Decorations (e.g. for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) and sweet sauces 100 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 03.0 Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet 500 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 10.4 Egg-based desserts (e.g. custard) 300 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 02.4 Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of food category 01.7 500 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 04.1.2.10 Fermented fruit products 100 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 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 12.9.2.3 100 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 07.2 Fine bakery wares (sweet, salty, savoury) and mixes 75 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 09.3.1 Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms, marinated and/or in jelly 40 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 09.3.2 Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms, pickled and/or in brine 40 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 50 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 01.6.4.2 Flavoured processed cheese, including containing fruit, vegetables, meat, etc. 50 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 13.6 Food supplements 500 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 09.2.4.3 Fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 40 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 09.2.3 Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 40 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 04.1.2.11 Fruit fillings for pastries 100 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 04.1.2.3 Fruit in vinegar, oil, or brine 100 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 04.1.2.8 Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and coconut milk 100 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 04.1.2.9 Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based desserts 150 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 04.1.2.6 Fruit-based spreads (e.g. chutney) excluding products of food category 04.1.2.5 150 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 09.4 Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 500 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 05.2.1 Hard candy 700 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 05.1.5 Imitation chocolate, chocolate substitute products 700 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 04.1.2.5 Jams, jellies, marmelades 200 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 12.4 Mustards 500 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 05.2.3 Nougats and marzipans 100 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 11.4 Other sugars and syrups (e.g. xylose, maple syrup, sugar toppings) 64 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 06.4.3 Pre-cooked pastas and noodles and like products 100 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 15.2 Processed nuts, including coated nuts and nut mixtures (with e.g. dried fruit) 100 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 01.6.2.2 Rind of ripened cheese 75 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 01.6.2.1 Ripened cheese, includes rind 15 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 09.3.3 Salmon substitutes, caviar, and other fish roe products 200 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 12.6 Sauces and like products 100 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 12.2.2 Seasonings and condiments 500 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 09.3.4 Semi-preserved fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms (e.g. fish paste), excluding products of food categories 09.3.1 - 09.3.3 75 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 09.2.5 Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 200 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 15.3 Snacks - fish based 350 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 15.1 Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes) 350 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 05.2.2 Soft candy 100 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 12.5 Soups and broths 400 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 01.6.1 Unripened cheese 50 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 04.2.2.5 100 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 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) 100 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 14.1.4 Water-based flavoured drinks, including "sport," "energy," or "electrolyte" drinks and particulated drinks 300 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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