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Cooked fish and fish products (09.2.4.1)

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Cooked products include steamed, boiled or any other cooking method except frying (see 09.2.4.3). The fish may be whole, in portions or comminuted. Examples include: fish sausage; cooked fish products boiled down in soy sauce (tsukudani); cooked surimi product (kamaboko); crab-flavoured cooked kamaboko product (kanikama); cooked fish roe; cooked surimi; cooked, tube-shaped surimi product (chikuwa); and cooked fish and lobster paste (surimi-like products. Other fish paste (Oriental type) is found in 09.3.4.

This page provides information on the food additive provisions that are acceptable for use in foods conforming to the food category.

This food category is listed in the Annex to Table 3. Unless specifcally indicated below, food additive provisions implied by Table 3 do not automatically apply to this category.

GSFA Provisions for Food Category 09.2.4.1
INS No. Food Additive or Group Max Level Notes Defined In
950 Acesulfame potassium 200 mg/kg 09.2
129 Allura red AC 300 mg/kg 09.2.4.1
523 Aluminium ammonium sulfate 200 mg/kg 09.2.4
951 Aspartame 300 mg/kg 09.2
133 Brilliant blue FCF 100 mg/kg 09.2.4.1
CHLOROPHYLLS AND CHLOROPHYLLINS, COPPER COMPLEXES 30 mg/kg 09.2.4.1
150c Caramel III - ammonia process 30,000 mg/kg 09.2
150d Caramel IV - sulfite ammonia process 30,000 mg/kg 09.2
120 Carmines 500 mg/kg 09.2.4.1
160a(ii) beta-Carotenes (vegetable) 1,000 mg/kg 09.2.4.1
ETHYLENE DIAMINE TETRA ACETATES 50 mg/kg 09.2.4.1
143 Fast green FCF 100 mg/kg 09.2.4.1
163(ii) Grape skin extract 500 mg/kg 09.2.4.1
132 Indigotine (Indigo carmine) 300 mg/kg 09.2.4.1
124 Ponceau 4R (Cochineal red A) 500 mg/kg 09.2.4.1
RIBOFLAVINS 300 mg/kg 09.2.4.1
SACCHARINS 500 mg/kg 09.2.4.1
SORBATES 2,000 mg/kg 09.2.4.1
110 Sunset yellow FCF 300 mg/kg 09.2.4.1

Items in uppercase (e.g. PHOSPHATES) refer to food additive groups.


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