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BEET RED

Beet Red

INS: 162

Function: Colour

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
01.2.2	Renneted milk	GMP		5
01.4.1	Pasteurized cream	GMP		5
01.4.2	Sterilized, UHT, whipping or whipped, and reduced fat creams	GMP		5
02.1	Fats and oils essentially free from water	GMP		5
02.2.1.1	Butter and concentrated butter	GMP	Note 52	5
04.1.1.2	Surface-treated fresh fruit	GMP		5
04.2.1.2	Surface-treated fresh vegetables, and nuts and seeds	GMP		5
06.4.2	Pre-cooked or dried pastas and noodles and like products	GMP	Note 54	5
08.1.1	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, whole pieces or cuts	GMP	Note 3	5
08.1.2	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, comminuted	1000 mg/kg		5
09.1	Fresh fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 3	5
09.2.1	Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		5
09.2.2	Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 3	5
09.2.3	Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 3	5
09.2.4.1	Cooked fish and fish products	GMP		5
09.2.4.2	Cooked mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		5
09.2.4.3	Fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 3	5
09.2.5	Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		5
10.1	Fresh eggs	GMP	Notes 3 & 4	5
13.1	Infant formulae and follow-on formulae	GMP		5
13.2	Weaning foods for infants and growing children	GMP		5
14.1.2.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit juice	GMP		5
14.1.3.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit nectar	GMP		5
14.2.3	Wines	GMP		5

BENZOYL PEROXIDE

Benzoyl Peroxide

INS: 928

Function: Bleaching Agent (Not for Flour), Flour Treatment Agent

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
01.6.2.1	Total ripened cheese, includes rind	1000 mg/kg	Note 55	5

BHA

Butylated Hydroxyanisole

INS: 320

Function: Antioxidant

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
02.3	Fat emulsions other than food category 02.2, including mixed and/or flavoured products based on fat emulsions	200 mg/kg		5
03.0	Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet	200 mg/kg	Note 15	5
04.1.2.7	Candied fruit	32 mg/kg		5
04.1.2.12	Cooked or fried fruit	100 mg/kg		5
14.1.4	Water-based flavoured drinks, including “sport” or “electrolyte” drinks and particulated drinks	1000 mg/kg	Note 15	5

BHT

Butylated Hydroxytoluene

INS: 321

Function: Adjuvant, Antioxidant

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
01.7	Dairy-based desserts (e.g., ice cream, ice milk, pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt)	90 mg/kg	Note 2	5
02.3	Fat emulsions other than food category 02.2, including mixed and/or flavoured products based on fat emulsions	200 mg/kg		5
03.0	Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet	100 mg/kg	Note 15	5
04.1.2.9	Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based desserts	90 mg/kg	Note 2	5
04.1.2.12	Cooked or fried fruit	100 mg/kg		5
05.1.1	Cocoa mixes (powders and syrups)	90 mg/kg		5
06.5	Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g., rice pudding, tapioca pudding)	90 mg/kg	Note 2	5
10.4	Egg-based desserts (e.g., custard)	90 mg/kg	Note 2	5
15.2	Processed nuts, including covered nuts and nut mixtures (withe.g., dried fruit)	200 mg/kg		5

BLEACHED STARCH

Bleached Starch

INS: 1403

Function: Bulking Agent, Emulsifier, Stabilizer, Thickener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
01.4.2	Sterilized, UHT, whipping or whipped, and reduced fat creams	GMP		5
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	10000 mg/kg		5
14.1.5	Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa	10000 mg/kg		5

BRILLIANT BLUE FCF

Brilliant Blue FCF

INS: 133

Function: Colour

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
01.2.1	Fermented milks (plain)	150 mg/kg		5
01.6.5	Cheese analogues	GMP	Note 3	5
07.0	Bakery wares	100 mg/kg		5

BROMELAIN

Bromelain

INS: 1101iii

Function: Flavour Enhancer, Flour Treatment Agent, Stabilizer, Thickener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
08.1.1	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, whole pieces or cuts	GMP		5
14.2.3	Wines	GMP		5