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ENZYME TREATED STARCH

Enzyme Treated Starch

INS: 1405

Function: Bulking Agent, Emulsifier, Stabilzer, Thickener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
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

ERYTHORBIC ACID

Erythorbic Acid	INS: 315
Isoascorbic Acid	INS: 315

Function: Antioxidant, Colour Rentention Agent

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
02.1	Fats and oils essentially free from water	100 mg/kg		5
02.2.1.1	Butter and concentrated butter	100 mg/kg	Note 52	5
04.1.1	Fresh fruit	GMP		5
04.2.1.3	Peeled, cut or shredded vegetables, and nuts and seeds	GMP		5
04.2.2.1	Frozen vegetables	GMP		5
08.1.1	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, whole pieces or cuts	500 mg/kg		5
09.1	Fresh fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		5
09.2.1	Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	1500 mg/kg		5
09.2.2	Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 15	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
14.1.5	Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa	GMP		5
14.2.3	Wines	GMP		5

ERYTHROSINE

Erythrosine

INS: 127

Function: Colour

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
01.2.1.1	Fermented milks (plain), not heat-treated after fermentation	300 mg/kg		5
01.7	Dairy-based desserts (e.g., ice cream, ice milk, pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt)	300 mg/kg		5
02.4	Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of food category 01.7	300 mg/kg		5
04.1.2.6	Fruit-based spreads (e.g., chutney) excluding products of food category 04.1.2.5	300 mg/kg		5
04.1.2.7	Candied fruit	300 mg/kg		5
04.1.2.8	Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and coconut milk	300 mg/kg		5
04.1.2.9	Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based desserts	300 mg/kg		5
04.1.2.11	Fruit fillings for pastries	300 mg/kg		5
05.2	Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougat, etc. other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4	300 mg/kg		5
05.4	Decorations (e.g., for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) and sweet sauces	300 mg/kg		5
06.3	Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats	300 mg/kg		5
06.5	Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g., rice pudding, tapioca pudding)	300 mg/kg		5
07.0	Bakery wares	300 mg/kg		5
09.2.1	Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	300 mg/kg		5
09.2.4.3	Fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	300 mg/kg		5
09.4	Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	300 mg/kg		5
10.4	Egg-based desserts (e.g., custard)	300 mg/kg		5
11.1	White and semi-white sugar (sucrose or saccharose), fructose, glucose (dextrose), xylose; sugar solutions and syrups, also (partially) inverted sugars, incl. molasses, treacle, and sugar toppings	300 mg/kg		5
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	300 mg/kg		5
11.4	Table-top sweeteners, including those containing high-intensity sweeteners	300 mg/kg		5
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	300 mg/kg		5
13.6	Food supplements	300 mg/kg		5
14.1.4	Water-based flavoured drinks, including “sport” or “electrolyte” drinks and particulated drinks	300 mg/kg		5
15.1	Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes)	300 mg/kg		5
16.0	Composite foods (e.g., casseroles, meat pies, mincemeat) - foods that could not be placed in categories 01 - 15	300 mg/kg	Note 2	5

ETHYL MALTOL

Ethyl Maltol

INS: 637

Function: Flavour Enhancer, Stabilizer

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
01.1.2	Dairy-based drinks, flavoured and/or fermented (e.g., chocolate milk, cocoa, eggnog, drinking yoghurt, whey-based drinks)	200 mg/kg		5
01.7	Dairy-based desserts (e.g., ice cream, ice milk, pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt)	200 mg/kg		5
03.0	Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet	200 mg/kg		5
05.2	Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougat, etc. other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4	200 mg/kg		5
07.2	Fine bakery wares	200 mg/kg		5
14.1.4	Water-based flavoured drinks, including “sport” or “electrolyte” drinks and particulated drinks	200 mg/kg		5
14.1.5	Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa	200 mg/kg		5
14.2.2	Cider and perry	100 mg/kg		5
14.2.4	Fruit wine	100 mg/kg		5