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Brilliant black (Black PN) (151)

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GSFA Provisions for Brilliant black (Black PN)

Table Items Number Category MaxLevel Notes
Table Item 14.2.7 Aromatized alcoholic beverages (e.g. beer, wine and spirituous cooler-type beverages, low alcoholic refreshers) 30 mg/kg
Table Item 06.3 Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats 160 mg/kg
Table Item 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 200 mg/kg
Table Item 06.5 Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g. rice pudding, tapioca pudding) 150 mg/kg
Table Item 01.6.5 Cheese analogues 100 mg/kg
3: For use in surface treatment only.
Table Item 05.3 Chewing gum 300 mg/kg
Table Item 05.2 Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougats, etc. other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4 100 mg/kg
Table Item 09.2.4.1 Cooked fish and fish products 100 mg/kg
Table Item 01.7 Dairy-based desserts (e.g. pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt) 150 mg/kg
Table Item 05.4 Decorations (e.g. for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) and sweet sauces 500 mg/kg
Table Item 14.2.6 Distilled spirituous beverages containing more than 15% alcohol 200 mg/kg
Table Item 03.0 Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet 100 mg/kg
Table Item 02.4 Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of food category 01.7 150 mg/kg
Table Item 07.2 Fine bakery wares (sweet, salty, savoury) and mixes 200 mg/kg
Table Item 01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 150 mg/kg
52: Excluding chocolate milk.
Table Item 13.6 Food supplements 530 mg/kg
539: For use in solid forms as sold to the consumer only.
Table Item 09.2.4.3 Fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 100 mg/kg
16: For use in glaze, coatings or decorations for fruit, vegetables, meat or fish only.
Table Item 09.2.2 Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 160 mg/kg
41: For use in breading or batter coatings only.
Table Item 04.1.2.9 Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based desserts 150 mg/kg
Table Item 09.4 Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 290 mg/kg
Table Item 04.1.2.5 Jams, jellies, marmelades 200 mg/kg
Table Item 12.4 Mustards 300 mg/kg
Table Item 15.2 Processed nuts, including coated nuts and nut mixtures (with e.g. dried fruit) 100 mg/kg
Table Item 09.3.3 Salmon substitutes, caviar, and other fish roe products 100 mg/kg
Table Item 12.6 Sauces and like products 500 mg/kg
Table Item 15.1 Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes) 200 mg/kg
Table Item 01.6.1 Unripened cheese 150 mg/kg
3: For use in surface treatment only. 201: For use in flavoured products only.
Table Item 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 200 mg/kg
Table Item 14.1.4 Water-based flavoured drinks, including "sport," "energy," or "electrolyte" drinks and particulated drinks 10 mg/kg
127: On the served to the consumer basis.
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.).