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TALC

Talc	INS: 553iii

Function: Anticaking Agent

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

TANNIC ACID (TANNINS, FOOD GRADE)

Tannic Acid (Tannins, Food Grade)

INS: 181

Function: Colour

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
05.3	Chewing gum	GMP		5
14.2.2	Cider and perry	200 mg/kg		5
14.2.3	Wines	200 mg/kg		5
14.2.4	Fruit wine	GMP		5
14.2.5	Mead	GMP		5

TARA GUM

Tara Gum

INS: 417

Function: Thickener, Stabilizer

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
04.1.1.2	Surface-treated fresh fruit	GMP		5
04.1.1.3	Peeled or cut fresh fruit	GMP		5
04.2.1.2	Surface-treated fresh vegetables, and nuts and seeds	GMP		5
04.2.1.3	Peeled, cut or shredded vegetables, and nuts and seeds	GMP		5
06.1	Whole, broken, or flaked grain, including rice	GMP		5
08.1.2	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, comminuted	GMP		5
09.2.1	Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 73	5
09.2.2	Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 73	5
09.2.3	Frozen minced and creamed 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	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	1000 mg/kg		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
14.1.5	Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa	GMP		5

TARTARIC, ACETIC & FATTY ACID ESTERS OF GLYCEROL (MIXED)

Tartaric, Acetic & Fatty Acid Esters of

INS: 472f Glycerol (Mixed)

Function: Emulsifier, Sequestrant, 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
02.2.1.1	Butter and concentrated butter	10000 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
09.2.1	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		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

TARTRATES

Tartaric Acid (L(+)-)	INS: 334
Disodium Tartrate	INS: 335ii
Dipotassium Tartrate	INS: 336ii
Monosodium Tartrate	INS: 335i
Monopotassium Tartrate	INS: 336i
Potassium Sodium Tartrate	INS: 337

Function: Anticaking Agent, Acidity Regulator, Adjuvant, Antioxidant, Bulking Agent, Emulsifier, Flour Treatment Agent, Humectant, Preservative, Raising Agent, Sequestrant, Stabilizer, Thickener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
03.0	Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet	2000 mg/kg	Note 45	5
04.1.2.11	Fruit fillings for pastries	10000 mg/kg	Note 29	5
05.1	Cocoa products and chocolate products including imitations and chocolate substitutes	10000 mg/kg	Note 45	5
05.2	Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougat, etc. other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4	20000 mg/kg	Note 45	5
05.4	Decorations (e.g., for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) and sweet sauces	8000 mg/kg	Note 45	5
07.0	Bakery wares	10000 mg/kg	Note 45	5
12.4	Mustards	5000 mg/kg	Note 45	5
12.5	Soups and broths	5000 mg/kg	Note 45	5
14.1.2	Fruit and vegetable juices	4000 mg/kg	Note 29	5
14.2.1	Beer and malt beverages	2000 mg/kg	Note 45	5
14.2.2	Cider and perry	2000 mg/kg	Note 45	5
14.2.4	Fruit wine	GMP	Note 45	5
16.0	Composite foods (e.g., casseroles, meat pies, mincemeat) - foods that could not be placed in categories 01 - 15	600 mg/kg	Notes 2 & 45	5

TARTRAZINE

Tartrazine

INS: 102

Function: Colour

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
01.3.2	Beverage whiteners	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
04.1.2.7	Candied fruit	300 mg/kg		5
04.1.2.9	Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based desserts	300 mg/kg		5
04.1.2.11	Fruit fillings for pastries	300 mg/kg		5
04.2.2.2	Dried vegetables, seaweeds, and nuts and seeds	300 mg/kg		5
06.3	Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats	300 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

TBHQ

Tertiary Butylhydroquinone

INS: 319

Function: Antioxidant

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
02.1	Fats and oils essentially free from water	200 mg/kg		5
02.2	Fat emulsions mainly of type water-in-oil	200 mg/kg		5
03.0	Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet	200 mg/kg	Note 15	5
05.0	Confectionery	200 mg/kg	Note 15	5

THAUMATIN

Thaumatin

INS: 957

Function: Sweetener, 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)	400 mg/kg	Note 51	5

TITANIUM DIOXIDE

Titanium Dioxide

INS: 171

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
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	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
14.2.3.2	Sparkling and semi-sparkling wines	GMP		5
14.2.3.4	Aromatized wine	GMP		5

TOCOPHEROLS

Mixed Tocopherols Concentrate	INS: 306
Alpha-Tocopherol	INS: 307

Function: Antioxidant

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
01.5.1	Milk powder and cream powder (plain)	5000 mg/kg		5
02.2.1.1	Butter and concentrated butter	GMP		5
03.0	Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet	500 mg/kg	Note 15	5
04.1.2.8	Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and coconut milk	150 mg/kg		5
04.1.2.9	Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based desserts	150 mg/kg		5
04.1.2.11	Fruit fillings for pastries	150 mg/kg		5
04.2.2.8	Cooked or fried vegetables and seaweeds	200 mg/kg		5
05.0	Confectionery	500 mg/kg	Note 15	5
06.4.2	Pre-cooked or dried pastas and noodles and like products	GMP		5
06.5	Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g., rice pudding, tapioca pudding)	150 mg/kg		5
06.6	Batters (e.g., for breading ro batters for fish or poultry)	5 mg/kg		5
07.0	Bakery wares	200 mg/kg		5
08.2	Processed meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or cuts	3000 mg/kg		5
08.3	Processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	3000 mg/kg		5
08.4	Edible casings (e.g., sausage casings)	5000 mg/kg		5
10.4	Egg-based desserts (e.g., custard)	150 mg/kg		5
14.2.1	Beer and malt beverages	150 mg/kg		5
14.2.3	Wines	150 mg/kg		5
14.2.6.2	Spirituous beverages containing less than 15% alcohol	150 mg/kg		5
15.2	Processed nuts, including covered nuts and nut mixtures (withe. g., dried fruit)	1500 mg/kg		5

TRAGACANTH GUM

Tragacanth Gum

INS: 413

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
02.1	Fats and oils essentially free from water	13000 mg/kg		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 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
14.1.2.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit juice	2000 mg/kg		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	500 mg/kg		5

TRIACETIN

Triacetin

INS: 1518

Function: Humectant

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

TRIPOTASSIUM CITRATE

Tripotassium Citrate

INS: 332ii

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	5000 mg/kg		5
02.1	Fats and oils essentially free from water	GMP		5
04.1.1.2	Surface-treated fresh fruit	GMP		5
04.2.1.2	Surface-treated 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
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
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

TRISODIUM CITRATE

Trisodium Citrate

INS: 331iii

Function: Acidity Regulator, Antioxidant, Emulsifier, Sequestrant, Stabilizer

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step
01.1.1	Milk and buttermilk	GMP		5
01.2.1	Fermented milks (plain)	1500 mg/kg	Note 63	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	5000 mg/kg		5
02.1	Fats and oils essentially free from water	GMP		5
04.1.1	Fresh fruit	2000 mg/kg		5
04.2.1	Fresh vegetables, and nuts and seeds	2000 mg/kg		5
04.2.2.1	Frozen vegetables	GMP		5
08.1.1	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, whole pieces or cuts	5000 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		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
13.1	Infant formulae and follow-on formulae	GMP		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	GMP		5
14.2.3.4	Aromatized wine	GMP		5