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MAGNESIUM CARBONATE

Magnesium Carbonate

INS: 504i

Function: Acidity Regulator, Anticaking Agent, Colour Retention Agent

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
01.1.1.2	Buttermilk (plain)	GMP		5
01.2.1.2	Fermented milks (plain), heat-treated after fermentation	GMP		5
01.2.2	Renneted milk	GMP		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
06.2	Flours and starches	GMP	Note 57	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	GMP		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	Cooked and/or fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		5
09.2.5	Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		5
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	15000 mg/kg	Note 56	5
12.1	Salt	20000 mg/kg		5
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	GMP	Note 51	5
13.2	Weaning foods for infants and growing children	GMP		5
14.1.5	Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa	GMP		5
14.2.3.4	Aromatized wine	GMP		5

MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE

Magnesium Chloride

INS: 511

Function: Colour Retention Agent, Firming Agent

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
01.1.1.2	Buttermilk (plain)	GMP		5
01.2.1.2	Fermented milks (plain), heat-treated after fermentation	GMP		5
01.2.2	Renneted milk	GMP		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
08.1.1	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, whole pieces or cuts	2260 mg/kg		5
08.1.2	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, comminuted	GMP		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	Cooked and/or fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		5
09.2.5	Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		5
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	GMP		5
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	GMP	Note 51	5
13.1	Infant formulae and follow-on formulae	GMP		5
14.1.5	Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa	GMP		5
14.2.3.4	Aromatized wine	GMP		5

MAGNESIUM GLUTAMATE, Dl-L-

Magnesium Glutamate, Dl-L-

INS: 625

Function: Flavour Enhancer

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	GMP	Note 51	5

MAGNESIUM HYDROGEN CARBONATE

Magnesium Hydrogen Carbonate

INS: 504ii

Function: Acidity Regulator, Anticaking Agent, Firming Agent

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
01.1.1.2	Buttermilk (plain)	GMP		5
01.2.1.2	Fermented milks (plain), heat-treated after fermentation	GMP		5
01.2.2	Renneted milk	GMP		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
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	GMP		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	Cooked and/or fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		5
09.2.5	Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		5
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	GMP		5
12.1	Salt	20000 mg/kg		5
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	GMP	Note 51	5
14.1.5	Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa	GMP		5
14.2.3.4	Aromatized wine	GMP		5

MAGNESIUM HYDROXIDE

Magnesium Hydroxide

INS: 528

Function: Acidity Regulator, Colour Retention Agent, Stabilizer

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
01.1.1.2	Buttermilk (plain)	GMP		5
01.2.1.2	Fermented milks (plain), heat-treated after fermentation	GMP		5
01.2.2	Renneted milk	GMP		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
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	GMP		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	Cooked and/or fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		5
09.2.5	Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		5
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	GMP		5
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	GMP	Note 51	5
14.1.5	Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa	GMP		5
14.2.3.4	Aromatized wine	GMP		5

MAGNESIUM OXIDE

Magnesium Oxide

INS: 530

Function: Anticaking Agent

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
12.1	Salt	20000 mg/kg		5
13.1	Infant formulae and follow-on formulae	GMP		5

MAGNESIUM SILICATE (SYNTHETIC)

Magnesium Silicate (Synthetic)

INS: 553i

Function: Anticaking Agent

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	15000 mg/kg	Note 56	5
12.1	Salt	20000 mg/kg		5
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	10000 mg/kg	Note 51	5

MALIC ACID (DL-)

Malic Acid (DL-)

INS: 296

Function: Acidity Regulator, Sequestrant

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
01.2.1	Fermented milks (plain)	GMP		5
02.1.2	Vegetable oils and fats	100 mg/kg		5
02.1.3	Lard, tallow, fish oil, and other animal fats	100 mg/kg		5
04.2.1	Fresh vegetables, and nuts and seeds	GMP		5
04.2.2.1	Frozen vegetables	GMP		5
12.1	Salt	GMP		5
13.2	Weaning foods for infants and growing children	GMP		5
14.1.2.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit juice	3500 mg/kg		5
14.1.2.3	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for fruit juice	GMP		5
14.1.3.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit nectar	GMP		5
14.2.3	Wines	GMP		5

MALTITOL and MALTITOL SYRUP

Maltitol and Maltitol Syrup

INS: 965

Function: Bulking Agent, Emulsifier, Stabilizer, Sweetener, Thickener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
06.4.2	Pre-cooked or dried pastas and noodles and like products	GMP	Note 54	5
09.2.1	Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		5
13.1	Infant formulae and follow-on formulae	GMP		5
13.2	Weaning foods for infants and growing children	GMP		5

MALTOL

Maltol

INS: 636

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
05.1	Cocoa products and chocolate products including imitations and chocolate substitutes	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
05.3	Chewing gum	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	250 mg/kg		5
14.2.4	Fruit wine	250 mg/kg		5

MANNITOL

Mannitol

INS: 421

Function: Anticaking Agent, Bulking Agent, Emulsifier, Stabilizer, Sweetener, Thickener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
02.2.1.1	Butter and concentrated butter	GMP	Note 52	5
06.4.2	Pre-cooked or dried pastas and noodles and like products	GMP	Note 54	5
09.2.1	Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		5
13.1	Infant formulae and follow-on formulae	GMP		5
13.2	Weaning foods for infants and growing children	GMP		5

METHYL CELLULOSE

Methyl Cellulose

INS: 461

Function: Bulking Agent, Emulsifier, Stabilizer, Thickener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
01.1.1.2	Buttermilk (plain)	GMP		5
01.2.1.2	Fermented milks (plain), heat-treated after fermentation	GMP		5
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
02.2.1.1	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
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	GMP		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	5000 mg/kg	Note 61	5
09.2.2	Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 41	5
09.2.3	Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 3	5
09.2.4	Cooked and/or fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		5
09.2.5	Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		5
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	GMP		5
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	GMP	Note 51	5
14.1.5	Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa	GMP		5
14.2.3.4	Aromatized wine	GMP		5

METHYL ETHYL CELLULOSE

Methyl Ethyl Cellulose

INS: 465

Function: Bulking Agent, Emulsifier, Foaming Agent, Stabilizer, Thickener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
01.1.1.2	Buttermilk (plain)	GMP		5
01.2.1.2	Fermented milks (plain), heat-treated after fermentation	GMP		5
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
02.2.1.1	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
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	GMP		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 41	5
09.2.3	Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 3	5
09.2.4	Cooked and/or fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		5
09.2.5	Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		5
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	GMP		5
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	GMP	Note 51	5
14.1.5	Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa	GMP		5

MICROCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE

Microcrystalline Cellulose

INS: 460i

Function: Anticaking Agent, Bulking Agent, Emulsifier, Foaming Agent, Stabilizer, Thickener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
01.1.1.2	Buttermilk (plain)	GMP		5
01.2.1.2	Fermented milks (plain), heat-treated after fermentation	20000 mg/kg		5
01.2.2	Renneted milk	GMP		5
01.4.1	Pasteurized cream	5000 mg/kg		5
01.4.2	Sterilized, UHT, whipping or whipped, and reduced fat creams	5000 mg/kg		5
02.2.1.1	Butter and concentrated butter	20000 mg/kg	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
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	GMP		5
09.1	Fresh fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 3	5
09.2	Processed fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	10000 mg/kg		5
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	GMP		5
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	GMP	Note 51	5
14.1.5	Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa	GMP		5
14.2.3.4	Aromatized wine	GMP		5

MINERAL OIL

Mineral Oil

INS: 905a

Function: Adjuvant, Antioxidant, Glazing Agent, Humectant, Release Agent

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
08.1.2	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, comminuted	200 mg/kg	Note 67	5
08.3.2	Heat-treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	30 mg/kg	Note 67	5
08.4	Edible casings (e.g., sausage casings)	50000 mg/kg		5
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	6000 mg/kg		5

MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES

Mono- and Diglycerides

INS: 471

Function: Antifoaming Agent, Bulking Agent, Emulsifier, Stabilizer, Thickener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
01.1.1	Milk and buttermilk	2000 mg/kg		5
01.2	Fermented and renneted milk products (plain), excluding food category 01.1.2 (dairy-based drinks)	1000 mg/kg		5
01.4.1	Pasteurized cream	5000 mg/kg		5
01.4.2	Sterilized, UHT, whipping or whipped, and reduced fat creams	5000 mg/kg		5
02.1.1	Butter oil, anhydrous milkfat, ghee	20000 mg/kg		5
02.1.2	Vegetable oils and fats	20000 mg/kg		5
02.1.3	Lard, tallow, fish oil, and other animal fats	100000 mg/kg		5
02.2.1.1	Butter and concentrated butter	20000 mg/kg	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
06.1	Whole, broken, or flaked grain, including rice	GMP		5
06.4.2	Pre-cooked or dried pastas and noodles and like products	30000 mg/kg	Note 64	5
08.1	Fresh meat, poultry, and game	GMP		5
09.1	Fresh fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 3	5
09.2	Processed fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	5000 mg/kg		5
10.2.2	Frozen egg products	GMP		5
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	6000 mg/kg		5
12.1	Salt	5000 mg/kg		5
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	5000 mg/kg	Note 51	5
12.8	Yeast and like products	5000 mg/kg		5
13.1	Infant formulae and follow-on formulae	5000 mg/kg		5
13.2	Weaning foods for infants and growing children	15000 mg/kg		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	18 mg/kg		5

MONOAMMONIUM GLUTAMATE, L-

Monoammonium Glutamate, L-

INS: 624

Function: Flavour Enhancer

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	GMP	Note 51	5

MONOPOTASSIUM GLUTAMATE, L-

Monopotassium Glutamate, L-

INS: 622

Function: Flavour Enhancer

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
09.2.2	Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 41	5
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	GMP	Note 51	5

MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, L-

Monosodium Glutamate, L-

INS: 621

Function: Flavour Enhancer

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
04.2.2.1	Frozen vegetables	GMP		5
08.1.1	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, whole pieces or cuts	GMP		5
09.2.2	Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 41	5
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	GMP	Note 51	5

MONOSTARCH PHOSPHATE

Monostarch Phosphate

INS: 1410

Function: Bulking Agent, Emulsifier, Stabilizer, Thickener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
01.2.1.2	Fermented milks (plain), heat-treated after fermentation	10000 mg/kg		5
01.4.1	Pasteurized cream	GMP		5
01.4.2	Sterilized, UHT, whipping or whipped, and reduced fat creams	GMP		5
02.2.1.1	Butter and concentrated butter	GMP	Note 52	5
09.2.2	Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 41	5
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	10000 mg/kg		5
13.2	Weaning foods for infants and growing children	50000 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