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Updated up to the 33rd Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission
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Description:
Includes vitamin and mineral supplements in unit dose forms such as capsules,
tablets, powders, solutions etc., where national jurisdictions regulate these
products as food.1
This page provides information on the food additive provisions that are
acceptable for use in foods conforming to the food category.

GSFA Provisions for Food Category 13.6

INS
No.

Food Additive or Group

Max Level

ASCORBYL ESTERS

500 mg/kg

950 Acesulfame potassium

2,000 mg/kg

129 Allura red AC

300 mg/kg

951 Aspartame
BENZOATES

5,500 mg/kg

GMP

133 Brilliant blue FCF

300 mg/kg

320

(BHA)

321 Butylated hydroxytoluene

(BHT)

In

Note 10 13.6
Note
188

13.6
13.6

Note
191

13.6

2,000 mg/kg Note 13 13.6

901 Beeswax

Butylated hydroxyanisole

Notes

Defined

Note 3 13.6
13.6
Note 15

400 mg/kg

Note

13.6

196
400 mg/kg

Note 15 13.6
Note

INS
No.

Food Additive or Group

Max Level

Notes

Defined
In

196
CAROTENOIDS

300 mg/kg

13.6

500 mg/kg

Note 3 13.6

CHLOROPHYLLS AND
CHLOROPHYLLINS,
COPPER COMPLEXES
CYCLAMATES
902 Candelilla wax
150c
150d

1,250 mg/kg Note 17 13.6

GMP

Caramel III - ammonia

20,000

process

mg/kg

Caramel IV - sulfite

20,000

ammonia process

mg/kg

Note 3 13.6
13.6
13.6

120 Carmines

300 mg/kg

903 Carnauba wax

5,000 mg/kg Note 3 13.6

160a
(ii)

beta-Carotenes (vegetable) 600 mg/kg

1503 Castor oil

472e

Diacetyltartaric and fatty

acid esters of glycerol
ETHYLENE DIAMINE
TETRA ACETATES

13.6

13.6

1,000 mg/kg

13.6

5,000 mg/kg

13.6

150 mg/kg

Note 21 13.6

INS
No.

Food Additive or Group

143 Fast green FCF

163(ii
)

Max Level

Notes

600 mg/kg

Defined
In
13.6

Note

Grape skin extract

500 mg/kg

IRON OXIDES

7,500 mg/kg Note 3 13.6

181

13.6

132 Indigotine (Indigo carmine) 300 mg/kg

13.6

961 Neotame

13.6

PHOSPHATES
POLYSORBATES
900a Polydimethylsiloxane
1521 Polyethylene Glycol
1203 Polyvinyl alcohol
1201 Polyvinylpyrrolidone
124

Ponceau 4R (Cochineal red

A)

90 mg/kg

2,200 mg/kg Note 33 13.6

25,000

13.6

mg/kg
50 mg/kg

13.6

70,000

13.6

mg/kg
45,000

13.6

mg/kg
GMP

13.6

300 mg/kg

13.6
Note 15

310 Propyl gallate

400 mg/kg

Note
196

13.6

INS
No.

Food Additive or Group

Max Level

RIBOFLAVINS

300 mg/kg

13.6

SACCHARINS

1,200 mg/kg

13.6

904 Shellac, bleached

955

Sucralose
(Trichlorogalactosucrose)

110 Sunset yellow FCF

GMP

Notes

Defined
In

Note 3 13.6

2,400 mg/kg

13.6

300 mg/kg

13.6