GSFA Online Food Additive Group Details for STEVIOL GLYCOSIDES

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Updated up to the 46^th Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (2023)

Food Additive Group Details

STEVIOL GLYCOSIDES

The provisions that follow are defined at the additive group level, and thus apply to the total content of the additives participating in this group. Additives that make up this group are provided for reference only.

Participating Additive(s)

INS No.	Additive Name

	960c	Enzymatically produced steviol glycosides
	960d	Glucosylated steviol glycosides
	960a	Steviol glycosides from Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni (Steviol glycosides from Stevia)
	960b	Steviol glycosides from fermentation

GSFA Provisions for STEVIOL GLYCOSIDES

Number	Food Category	Max Level	Notes
01.1.4	Flavoured fluid milk drinks	200 mg/kg	Note XS243 Note 26 Note 477
01.5.2	Milk and cream powder analogues	330 mg/kg	Note XS251 Note 26 Note 477 Note 408
01.7	Dairy-based desserts (e.g. pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt)	330 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
02.4	Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of food category 01.7	330 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
03.0	Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet	270 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
04.1.2.1	Frozen fruit	40 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477 Note 358
04.1.2.3	Fruit in vinegar, oil, or brine	100 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 144
04.1.2.4	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit	330 mg/kg	Note 26 Note XS319 Note 477
04.1.2.5	Jams, jellies, marmelades	360 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
04.1.2.6	Fruit-based spreads (e.g. chutney) excluding products of food category 04.1.2.5	330 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477 Note XS160
04.1.2.7	Candied fruit	40 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
04.1.2.8	Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and coconut milk	330 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
04.1.2.9	Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based desserts	350 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
04.1.2.10	Fermented fruit products	115 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
04.1.2.11	Fruit fillings for pastries	330 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
04.1.2.12	Cooked fruit	40 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
04.2.2.2	Dried vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweeds, and nuts and seeds	40 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 348 Note 144
04.2.2.3	Vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), and seaweeds in vinegar, oil, brine, or soybean sauce	330 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 144
04.2.2.4	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) or retort pouch vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), and seaweeds	70 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
04.2.2.5	Vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweed, and nut and seed purees and spreads (e.g., peanut butter)	330 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
04.2.2.6	Vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweed, and nut and seed pulps and preparations (e.g. vegetable desserts and sauces, candied vegetables) other than food category 04.2.2.5	165 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
04.2.2.7	Fermented vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera) and seaweed products, excluding fermented soybean products of food categories 06.8.6, 06.8.7, 12.9.1, 12.9.2.1 and 12.9.2.3	200 mg/kg	Note XS294 Note 26 Note 144
04.2.2.8	Cooked or fried vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), and seaweeds	40 mg/kg	Note 345 Note 26 Note 477 Note 144
05.1.1	Cocoa mixes (powders) and cocoa mass/cake	350 mg/kg	Note 97 Note 26 Note 477 Note XS141
05.1.3	Cocoa-based spreads, including fillings	350 mg/kg	Note XS86 Note 26 Note 477
05.1.4	Cocoa and chocolate products	350 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
05.1.5	Imitation chocolate, chocolate substitute products	350 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
05.2	Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougats, etc. other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4	700 mg/kg	Note XS309R Note 199 Note 26 Note 477
05.3	Chewing gum	3,500 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
05.4	Decorations (e.g. for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) and sweet sauces	330 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
06.3	Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats	350 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
06.5	Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g. rice pudding, tapioca pudding)	165 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
06.8.1	Soybean-based beverages	200 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
07.2	Fine bakery wares (sweet, salty, savoury) and mixes	350 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
08.2	Processed meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or cuts	80 mg/kg	Note 200 Note 26
08.3.2	Heat-treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	100 mg/kg	Note 202 Note XS98 Note 26 Note XS88 Note 477 Note XS89
09.2.4.1	Cooked fish and fish products	70 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477 Note 322
09.2.4.2	Cooked mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	165 mg/kg	Note 26
09.2.4.3	Fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	250 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 241
09.2.5	Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	165 mg/kg	Note 208 Note 489 Note 26
09.3.1	Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms, marinated and/or in jelly	100 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 144
09.3.2	Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms, pickled and/or in brine	165 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 144
09.3.3	Salmon substitutes, caviar, and other fish roe products	100 mg/kg	Note XS291 Note 26 Note 144
09.4	Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	100 mg/kg	Note XS94 Note XS37 Note XS3 Note XS119 Note XS90 Note 26 Note XS70 Note 144
10.4	Egg-based desserts (e.g. custard)	330 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
11.6	Table-top sweeteners, including those containing high-intensity sweeteners	GMP	Note 26
12.2.2	Seasonings and condiments	30 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
12.4	Mustards	130 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
12.5	Soups and broths	50 mg/kg	Note XS117 Note 26 Note 477
12.6.1	Emulsified sauces and dips (e.g. mayonnaise, salad dressing, onion dip)	350 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
12.6.2	Non-emulsified sauces (e.g. ketchup, cheese sauce, cream sauce, brown gravy)	350 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477 Note XS306
12.6.3	Mixes for sauces and gravies	350 mg/kg	Note 127 Note 26 Note 477
12.6.4	Clear sauces (e.g. fish sauce)	350 mg/kg	Note XS302 Note 26 Note 477
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 05.1.3	115 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
12.9.2.1	Fermented soybean sauce	30 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
12.9.2.2	Non-fermented soybean sauce	165 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
12.9.2.3	Other soybean sauces	165 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
13.3	Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes (excluding products of food category 13.1)	350 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477 Note 566
13.4	Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction	270 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
13.5	Dietetic foods (e.g. supplementary foods for dietary use) excluding products of food categories 13.1 - 13.4 and 13.6	660 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 198 Note 477 Note 294
13.6	Food supplements	2,500 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477 Note 203
14.1.3	Fruit and vegetable nectars	200 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
14.1.4	Water-based flavoured drinks, including "sport," "energy," or "electrolyte" drinks and particulated drinks	200 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
14.1.5	Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa	200 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477 Note 160
14.2.1	Beer and malt beverages	70 mg/kg	Note 26
14.2.2	Cider and perry	50 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
14.2.4	Wines (other than grape)	160 mg/kg	Note 26
14.2.5	Mead	160 mg/kg	Note 26
14.2.6	Distilled spirituous beverages containing more than 15% alcohol	160 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
14.2.7	Aromatized alcoholic beverages (e.g. beer, wine and spirituous cooler-type beverages, low alcoholic refreshers)	200 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477
15.0	Ready-to-eat savouries	170 mg/kg	Note 26 Note 477

Note: Unless otherwise specified, food additive provisions apply to the food category indicated (e.g. Dairy), as well as to all subcategories of that category (e.g. Cheese, Ripened Cheese, etc.).

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