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SACCHARIN

Saccharin	INS: 954
Saccharin (and Sodium, Potassium, Calcium Salts)	INS: 954

Function: Flavour Enhancer, Sweetener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
01.2.1	Fermented milks (plain)	200 mg/kg		5
01.2.2	Renneted milk	GMP		5
01.6.1	Unripened cheese	100 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	300 mg/kg		5
04.2.2	Processed vegetables, seaweeds, and nuts and seeds	500 mg/kg		5
08.2.2	Heat-treated processed meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or cuts	500 mg/kg		5
08.3.2	Heat-treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	500 mg/kg		5
09.2.4.1	Cooked fish and fish products	500 mg/kg		5
09.3.4	Semi-preserved fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms (e.g., fish paste), excluding products of food categories 09.3.1 - 09.3.3	1200 mg/kg		5
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	300 mg/kg		5
12.3	Vinegars	300 mg/kg		5
12.6.1	Emulsified sauces (e.g., mayonnaise, salad dressing)	500 mg/kg		5
12.6.4	Clear sauces (e.g., soy sauce, fish sauce)	500 mg/kg		5
14.1.2.3	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for fruit juice	300 mg/kg		5
14.1.2.4	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for vegetable juice	300 mg/kg		5
14.1.3.3	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for fruit nectar	300 mg/kg		5
14.1.3.4	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for vegetable nectar	300 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
16.0	Composite foods (e.g., casseroles, meat pies, mincemeat) - foods that could not be placed in categories 01 - 15	200 mg/kg		5

SALTS OF MYRISTIC, PALMITIC & STEARIC ACIDS (NH4, Ca, K, Na)

SALTS OF MYRISTIC, PALMITIC & STEARIC ACIDS (NH4, Ca, K, Na)

INS: 470

Function: Anticaking Agent, Emulsifier, 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
02.2.1.1	Butter and concentrated butter	GMP	Note 52	5
04.1.1.2	Surface-treated fresh fruit	GMP	Note 71	5
04.2.1.2	Surface-treated fresh vegetables, and nuts and seeds	GMP	Note 71	5
04.2.2.1	Frozen vegetables	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	Notes 3 & 71	5
08.1.2	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, comminuted	GMP	Note 71	5
09.1	Fresh fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Notes 3 & 71	5
09.2.1	Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 71	5
09.2.2	Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Notes 3 & 71	5
09.2.3	Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Notes 3 & 71	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
10.2.1	Liquid egg products	GMP		5
10.2.2	Frozen egg products	GMP		5
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	GMP	Note 71	5
12.1	Salt	GMP		5
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	GMP	Note 51	5
12.8	Yeast and like products	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	Note 71	5

SALTS OF OLEIC ACID (Ca, K, Na)

SALTS OF OLEIC ACID (Ca, K, Na)

INS: 470

Function: Anticaking Agent, Emulsifier, 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

SILICON DIOXIDE (AMORPHOUS)

Silicon Dioxide (Amorphous)

INS: 551

Function: Anticaking Agent, Filler

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
13.1	Infant formulae and follow-on formulae	10000 mg/kg	Note 65	5
13.2	Weaning foods for infants and growing children	10000 mg/kg	Note 65	5
14.2.3	Wines	17 mg/kg		5

SODIUM ACETATE

Sodium Acetate

INS: 262i

Function: Acidity Regulator, Preservative, Sequestrant

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
02.1	Fats and oils essentially free from water	5000 mg/kg		5
04.2.1	Fresh vegetables, and nuts and seeds	GMP		5
06.4.2	Pre-cooked or dried pastas and noodles and like products	6000 mg/kg	Note 54	5
08.1.1	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, whole pieces or cuts	GMP		5
10.2.1	Liquid egg products	GMP		5
10.2.2	Frozen egg products	GMP		5
13.2	Weaning foods for infants and growing children	GMP		5

SODIUM ALGINATE

Sodium Alginate

INS: 401

Function: Bulking Agent, Emulsifier, Stabilizer, Thickener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
01.1.1.2	Buttermilk (plain)	6000 mg/kg		5
01.2.1.2	Fermented milks (plain), heat-treated after fermentation	5000 mg/kg		5
01.4.1	Pasteurized cream	100 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	GMP	Note 52	5
08.1.1	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, whole pieces or cuts	15000 mg/kg		5
08.1.2	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, comminuted	8000 mg/kg		5
09.2.1	Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	5000 mg/kg		5
09.2.2	Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		5
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	10000 mg/kg		5
13.1	Infant formulae and follow-on formulae	300 mg/kg		5
13.2	Weaning foods for infants and growing children	5000 mg/kg		5
14.1.2.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit juice	20000 mg/kg		5

SODIUM ALUMINIUM PHOSPHATES

Sodium Aluminium Phosphate Acidic	INS: 541i
Sodium Aluminium Phosphate Basic	INS: 541ii

Function: Acidity Regulator, Emulsifier, Raising Agent, Stabilizer, Thickener

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)	2000 mg/kg	Note 6	5
02.4	Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of food category 01.7	2000 mg/kg	Note 6	5
04.1.2.9	Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based desserts	2000 mg/kg	Note 6	5
05.1.1	Cocoa mixes (powders and syrups)	2000 mg/kg	Notes 6 & 72	5
06.5	Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g., rice pudding, tapioca pudding)	2000 mg/kg	Note 6	5
06.6	Batters (e.g., for breading ro batters for fish or poultry)	1600 mg/kg	Note 6	5
07.0	Bakery wares	2000 mg/kg	Note 6	5
10.4	Egg-based desserts (e.g., custard)	2000 mg/kg	Note 6	5
14.1.4	Water-based flavoured drinks, including “sport” or “electrolyte” drinks and particulated drinks	2000 mg/kg	Note 6	5

SODIUM ALUMINOSILICATE

Sodium Aluminosilicate

INS: 554

Function: Anticaking Agent

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
06.1	Whole, broken, or flaked grain, including rice	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)	10000 mg/kg	Note 51	5

SODIUM ASCORBATE

Sodium Ascorbate

INS: 301

Function: Antioxidant, Colour Retention Agent

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
02.1	Fats and oils essentially free from water	200 mg/kg		5
02.2.1.1	Butter and concentrated butter	GMP	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
06.2	Flours and starches	300 mg/kg		5
08.1.1	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, whole pieces or cuts	500 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	200 mg/kg		5
09.2.1	Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	1000 mg/kg	Note 70	5
09.2.2	Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		5
09.2.4	Cooked and/or fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	200 mg/kg		5
12.8	Yeast and like products	200 mg/kg		5
13.1	Infant formulae and follow-on formulae	50 mg/kg		5
13.2	Weaning foods for infants and growing children	3000 mg/kg		5
14.1.2.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit juice	200 mg/kg		5
14.1.2.3	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for fruit juice	300 mg/kg		5
14.1.3.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit nectar	200 mg/kg		5
14.1.3.3	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for fruit nectar	300 mg/kg		5
14.2.3	Wines	200 mg/kg		5

SODIUM CARBONATE

Sodium Carbonate

INS: 500i

Function: Anticaking Agent, Acidity Regulator, Raising Agent, Stabilizer

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
01.4.1	Pasteurized cream	2000 mg/kg		5
01.4.2	Sterilized, UHT, whipping or whipped, and reduced fat creams	2000 mg/kg		5
02.1.3	Lard, tallow, fish oil, and other animal fats	GMP		5
02.2.1.1	Butter and concentrated butter	2000 mg/kg	Note 52	5
06.4.2	Pre-cooked or dried pastas and noodles and like products	2600 mg/kg	Note 54	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
13.1	Infant formulae and follow-on formulae	GMP		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

SODIUM CARBOXYMETHYL CELLULOSE

Sodium Carboxymethyl Cellulose

INS: 466

Function: Bulking Agent, Emulsifier, Stabilizer, Thickener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
01.1.1.2	Buttermilk (plain)	2000 mg/kg		5
01.2.1.2	Fermented milks (plain), heat-treated after fermentation	5000 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	2000 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	15000 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	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)	5000 mg/kg		5
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	GMP	Note 51	5
14.1.2.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit juice	5000 mg/kg		5
14.1.3.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit nectar	5000 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	5000 mg/kg		5

SODIUM DIACETATE

Sodium Diacetate

INS: 262ii

Function: Acidity Regulator, Preservative, Sequestrant

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
06.4.2	Pre-cooked or dried pastas and noodles and like products	3000 mg/kg		5
09.2.4.1	Cooked fish and fish products	3000 mg/kg		5
10.2	Egg products	1000 mg/kg		5
10.3	Preserved eggs, including alkaline, salted, and canned eggs	1000 mg/kg		5
10.4	Egg-based desserts (e.g., custard)	2000 mg/kg		5
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 05.1.2	3000 mg/kg		5
16.0	Composite foods (e.g., casseroles, meat pies, mincemeat) - foods that could not be placed in categories 01 - 15	3000 mg/kg		5

SODIUM DIHYDROGEN CITRATE

Sodium Dihydrogen Citrate

INS: 331i

Function: Acidity Regulator, Antioxidant, Emulsifier, Sequestrant, 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
01.4.1	Pasteurized cream	2000 mg/kg		5
01.4.2	Sterilized, UHT, whipping or whipped, and reduced fat creams	2000 mg/kg		5
02.1	Fats and oils essentially free from water	GMP		5
04.1.1.2	Surface-treated fresh fruit	GMP		5
04.2.1	Fresh 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	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		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
10.2.1	Liquid egg products	GMP		5
10.2.2	Frozen egg products	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
13.2	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

SODIUM ERYTHORBATE

Sodium Isoascorbate

INS: 316

Function: Antioxidant, Colour Retention 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
04.1.1.3	Peeled or cut 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
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
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

SODIUM GLUCONATE

Sodium Gluconate

INS: 576

Function: Sequestrant

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

SODIUM HYDROGEN CARBONATE

Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate

INS: 500ii

Function: Acidity Regulator, Anticaking Agent, Raising Agent, Stabilizer

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
01.4.1	Pasteurized cream	2000 mg/kg		5
01.4.2	Sterilized, UHT, whipping or whipped, and reduced fat creams	2000 mg/kg		5
02.1.3	Lard, tallow, fish oil, and other animal fats	1000 mg/kg		5
02.2.1.1	Butter and concentrated butter	2000 mg/kg	Notes 34 & 52	5
06.2	Flours and starches	45000 mg/kg		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
13.1	Infant formulae and follow-on formulae	GMP		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

SODIUM HYDROXIDE

Sodium Hydroxide

INS: 524

Function: Acidity Regulator

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
02.1.3	Lard, tallow, fish oil, and other animal fats	GMP		5
02.2.1.1	Butter and concentrated butter	2000 mg/kg	Notes 34 & 52	5
06.2	Flours and starches	GMP		5
08.1.1	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, whole pieces or cuts	GMP		5
13.1	Infant formulae and follow-on formulae	GMP		5
13.2	Weaning foods for infants and growing children	GMP		5

SODIUM LACTATE

Sodium Lactate

INS: 325

Function: Acidity Regulator, Antioxidant, Bulking Agent, Emulsifier, Humectant, 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
01.4.1	Pasteurized cream	GMP		5
01.4.2	Sterilized, UHT, whipping or whipped, and reduced fat creams	GMP		5
04.2.1	Fresh vegetables, and nuts and seeds	GMP		5
08.1	Fresh meat, poultry, and game	20000 mg/kg		5
10.2.1	Liquid egg products	GMP		5
10.2.2	Frozen egg products	GMP		5
13.2	Weaning foods for infants and growing children	GMP		5

SODIUM SESQUICARBONATE

Sodium Sesquicarbonate

INS: 500iii

Function: Acidity Regulator, Anticaking Agent, Raising Agent

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
01.4.1	Pasteurized cream	GMP		5
01.4.2	Sterilized, UHT, whipping or whipped, and reduced fat creams	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

SORBATES

Sorbic Acid	INS: 200
Potassium Sorbate	INS: 202
Sodium Sorbate	INS: 201
Calcium Sorbate	INS: 203

Function: Antioxidant, Preservative, Stabilizer

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
01.3.2	Beverage whiteners	200 mg/kg	Note 42	5
02.1.1	Butter oil, anhydrous milkfat, ghee	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	5
02.4	Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of food category 01.7	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	5
03.0	Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	5
04.1.2.2	Dried fruit	2000 mg/kg	Note 42	5
04.1.2.5	Jams, jellies and marmelades	1500 mg/kg	Note 42	5
04.1.2.8	Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and coconut milk	1500 mg/kg	Note 42	5
04.1.2.11	Fruit fillings for pastries	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	5
04.1.2.12	Cooked or fried fruit	1200 mg/kg	Note 42	5
05.1.3	Cocoa and chocolate products (e.g., milk chocolate bar, chocolate flakes, white chocolate) other than food categories 05.1.1, 05.1.2 and 05.1.4	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	5
06.4.2	Pre-cooked or dried pastas and noodles and like products	2000 mg/kg	Note 42	5
06.5	Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g., rice pudding, tapioca pudding)	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	5
08.4	Edible casings (e.g., sausage casings)	GMP	Note 42	5
09.2.1	Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	2000 mg/kg	Note 42	5
09.2.2	Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	2000 mg/kg	Note 42	5
09.2.3	Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	2000 mg/kg	Note 42	5
10.4	Egg-based desserts (e.g., custard)	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	5
11.4	Table-top sweeteners, including those containing high-intensity sweeteners	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	5
12.6	Sauces and like products	2000 mg/kg	Note 42	5
14.1.3	Fruit and vegetable nectars	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	5
14.1.5	Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	5
14.2.2	Cider and perry	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	5
14.2.4	Fruit wine	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	5
14.2.5	Mead	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	5

SORBITAN ESTERS OF FATTY ACIDS

Sorbitan Monostearate	INS: 491
Sorbitan Monolaurate	INS: 493
Sorbitan Monopalmitate	INS: 495
Sorbitan Tristearate	INS: 492
Sorbitan Monooleate	INS: 494

Function: Emulsifier, Stabilizer

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
14.2.3	Wines	GMP		5

SORBITOL (INCLUDING SORBITOL SYRUP)

Sorbitol and Sorbitol Syrup

INS: 420

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

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
01.2.1.2	Fermented milks (plain), heat-treated after fermentation	GMP		5
01.2.2	Renneted milk	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	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
09.2.4.1	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	35000 mg/kg		5
10.2.2	Frozen egg products	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
13.2	Weaning foods for infants and growing children	GMP		5

STARCH ACETATE

Starch Acetate Esterified with Acetic Anhydride	INS: 1420
Starch Acetate Esterified with Vinyl Acetate	INS: 1421

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
13.2	Weaning foods for infants and growing children	50000 mg/kg		5

STARCH SODIUM OCTENYL SUCCINATE

Starch Sodium Octenyl Succinate

INS: 1450

Function: Emulsifier, Stabilizer, Thickener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
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
13.2	Weaning foods for infants and growing children	50000 mg/kg		5

STEAROYL-2-LACTYLATES

Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate	INS: 481i
Calcium Stearoyl Lactylate	INS: 482i

Function: Emulsifier, Stabilizer, Thickener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
03.0	Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet	5000 mg/kg	Note 15	5
04.2.2.2	Dried vegetables, seaweeds, and nuts and seeds	5000 mg/kg		5
10.2	Egg products	500 mg/kg		5

SUCRALOSE

Sucralose

INS: 955

Function: Sweetener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
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	1500 mg/kg		5
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	700 mg/kg		5

SUCROGLYCERIDES

Sucroglycerides

INS: 474

Function: Emulsifier, Stabilizer, Thickener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
14.1.4	Water-based flavoured drinks, including “sport” or “electrolyte” drinks and particulated drinks	5000 mg/kg		5
14.2.2	Cider and perry	5000 mg/kg		5
14.2.4	Fruit wine	5000 mg/kg		5
14.2.5	Mead	5000 mg/kg		5
14.2.6	Spirituous beverages	5000 mg/kg		5

SUCROSE ESTERS OF FATTY ACIDS

Sucrose Esters of Fatty Acids

INS: 473

Function: Adjuvant, Emulsifiers, Stabilizer, Thickener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
01.5.2	Milk and cream powder analogues	10000 mg/kg		5
01.6.4	Processed cheese	10000 mg/kg		5
01.6.5	Cheese analogues	10000 mg/kg		5
01.7	Dairy-based desserts (e.g., ice cream, ice milk, pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt)	10000 mg/kg		5
02.1.2	Vegetable oils and fats	5000 mg/kg		5
04.1.2.8	Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and coconut milk	1500 mg/kg		5
04.2.1.3	Peeled, cut or shredded vegetables, and nuts and seeds	3000 mg/kg		5
05.2	Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougat, etc. other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4	10000 mg/kg		5
06.0	Cereals and cereal products, including flours and starches from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, excluding bakery wares of food category 07.0	10000 mg/kg		5
08.4	Edible casings (e.g., sausage casings)	5000 mg/kg		5
09.2.1	Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	10000 mg/kg		5
09.2.4	Cooked and/or fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	10000 mg/kg		5
09.2.5	Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	10000 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	5000 mg/kg		5
12.5	Soups and broths	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	5000 mg/kg		5
14.1.5	Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa	5000 mg/kg		5
15.1	Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes)	10000 mg/kg		5
16.0	Composite foods (e.g., casseroles, meat pies, mincemeat) - foods that could not be placed in categories 01 - 15	10000 mg/kg		5

SULPHITES

Sulphur Dioxide	INS: 220
Sodium Hydrogen Sulphite	INS: 222
Potassium Metabisuphite	INS: 224
Calcium Hydrogen Sulphite	INS: 227
Sodium Thiosulphate	INS: 539
Sodium Sulphite	INS: 221
Sodium Metabisulphite	INS: 223
Potassium Sulphite	INS: 225
Potassium Bisulphite	INS: 228

Function: Acidity Regulator, Adjuvant, Antioxidant, Bleaching Agent (Not for Flour), Flour Treatment Agent, Firming Agent, Preservative, Sequestrant, Stabilizer

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
03.0	Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet	100 mg/kg	Note 44	5
04.1.2.2	Dried fruit	3000 mg/kg	Note 44	5
04.2.1.3	Peeled, cut or shredded vegetables, and nuts and seeds	500 mg/kg	Note 44	5
04.2.2.7	Fermented vegetable products	1000 mg/kg	Note 44	5
05.4	Decorations (e.g., for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) and sweet sauces	150 mg/kg	Note 44	5
07.1.4	Bread-type products, including bread stuffing and bread crumbs	500 mg/kg	Note 44	5
07.2	Fine bakery wares	300 mg/kg	Note 44	5
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	40 mg/kg	Note 44	5
12.5	Soups and broths	1000 mg/kg	Note 44	5
12.9	Protein products	500 mg/kg	Note 44	5
14.1.3.3	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for fruit nectar	70 mg/kg	Note 44	5
14.1.3.4	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for vegetable nectar	70 mg/kg	Note 44	5
14.2.1	Beer and malt beverages	150 mg/kg	Note 44	5
14.2.2	Cider and perry	350 mg/kg	Note 44	5
14.2.4	Fruit wine	350 mg/kg	Note 44	5
14.2.5	Mead	350 mg/kg	Note 44	5
14.2.6.2	Spirituous beverages containing less than 15% alcohol	150 mg/kg	Note 44	5

SUNSET YELLOW FCF

Sunset Yellow FCF

INS: 110

Function: Colour

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)	300 mg/kg		5
02.4	Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of food category 01.7	300 mg/kg		5
04.1.2.7	Candied fruit	300 mg/kg		5
04.1.2.9	Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based desserts	300 mg/kg		5
04.2.2.2	Dried vegetables, seaweeds, and nuts and seeds	300 mg/kg		5
04.2.2.7	Fermented vegetable products	200 mg/kg		5
06.4.2	Pre-cooked or dried pastas and noodles and like products	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
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
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