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Food Additive Group Details

ASCORBYL 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 ASCORBYL ESTERS
Number Food Category Max Level Notes
Food Category Hierarchy 07.0 Bakery wares 1,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 01.3.2 Beverage whiteners 80 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 06.3 Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats 200 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 02.1.1 Butter oil, anhydrous milkfat, ghee 500 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 06.5 Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g., rice pudding, tapioca pudding) 500 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 12.6.4 Clear sauces (e.g., fish sauce) 200 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 13.2 Complementary foods for infants and young children 100 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 05.0 Confectionery 500 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 01.7 Dairy-based desserts (e.g., pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt) 500 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 13.5 Dietetic foods (e.g., supplementary foods for dietary use) excluding products of food categories 13.1 - 13.4 and 13.6 500 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 13.4 Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction 500 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 04.1.2.2 Dried fruit 80 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 04.2.2.2 Dried vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweeds, and nuts and seeds 80 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 08.4 Edible casings (e.g., sausage casings) 5,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 03.0 Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet 200 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 10.4 Egg-based desserts (e.g., custard) 500 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 12.6.1 Emulsified sauces (e.g., mayonnaise, salad dressing) 500 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 500 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 02.2.2 Fat spreads, dairy fat spreads and blended spreads 500 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 02.4 Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of food category 01.7 80 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 13.1.2 Follow-up formulae 50 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 13.6 Food supplements 500 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 13.1.3 Formulae for special medical purposes for infants 10 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 09.2.2 Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 1,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 09.2.1 Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 1,000 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 04.1.2.9 Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based desserts 500 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 12.2 Herbs, spices, seasonings and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles) 500 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 13.1.1 Infant formulae 10 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 02.1.3 Lard, tallow, fish oil, and other animal fats 500 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 01.5.2 Milk and cream powder analogues 80 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 01.5.1 Milk powder and cream powder (plain) 500 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 12.6.3 Mixes for sauces and gravies 200 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 12.4 Mustards 500 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 12.6.2 Non-emulsified sauces (e.g., ketchup, cheese sauce, cream sauce, brown gravy) 500 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 11.4 Other sugars and syrups (e.g., xylose, maple syrup, sugar toppings) 200 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 06.4.3 Pre-cooked pastas and noodles and like products 20 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 15.2 Processed nuts, including coated nuts and nut mixtures (with e.g., dried fruit) 200 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 01.6.2.1 Ripened cheese, includes rind 500 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 12.7 Salads (e.g., macaroni salad, potato salad) and sandwich spreads excluding cocoa- and nut-based spreads of food categories 04.2.2.5 and 05.1.3 200 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 15.1 Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes) 200 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 12.5 Soups and broths 200 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 02.1.2 Vegetable oils and fats 500 mg/kg
Food Category Hierarchy 14.1.4 Water-based flavoured drinks, including "sport," "energy," or "electrolyte" drinks and particulated drinks 1,000 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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