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Canthaxanthin (161g)

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GSFA Provisions for Canthaxanthin

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) 5 mg/kg
Table Item 14.1.4.1 Carbonated water-based flavoured drinks 5 mg/kg
Table Item 06.5 Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g. rice pudding, tapioca pudding) 15 mg/kg
Table Item 01.6.5 Cheese analogues 15 mg/kg
Table Item 14.1.4.3 Concentrates (liquid or solid) for water-based flavoured drinks 5 mg/kg
127: On the served to the consumer basis.
Table Item 08.3.1.1 Cured (including salted) non-heat treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products 100 mg/kg
4: For use in decoration, stamping, marking or branding the product only. 118: Except for use in tocino (fresh, cured sausage) at 1 000 mg/kg. 16: For use in glaze, coatings or decorations for fruit, vegetables, meat or fish only.
Table Item 01.7 Dairy-based desserts (e.g. pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt) 15 mg/kg
Table Item 14.2.6 Distilled spirituous beverages containing more than 15% alcohol 5 mg/kg
Table Item 06.4.2 Dried pastas and noodles and like products 15 mg/kg
211: For use in noodles only.
Table Item 04.2.2.2 Dried vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweeds, and nuts and seeds 10 mg/kg
Table Item 10.4 Egg-based desserts (e.g. custard) 15 mg/kg
Table Item 02.3 Fat emulsions mainly of type oil-in-water, including mixed and/or flavoured products based on fat emulsions 15 mg/kg
Table Item 02.2.2 Fat spreads, dairy fat spreads and blended spreads 15 mg/kg
Table Item 02.4 Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of food category 01.7 15 mg/kg
Table Item 01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 15 mg/kg
52: Excluding chocolate milk.
Table Item 01.6.4.2 Flavoured processed cheese, including containing fruit, vegetables, meat, etc. 15 mg/kg
Table Item 10.1 Fresh eggs
4: For use in decoration, stamping, marking or branding the product only.
Table Item 09.2.1 Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 35 mg/kg
Table Item 04.1.2.11 Fruit fillings for pastries 15 mg/kg
Table Item 04.1.2.9 Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based desserts 15 mg/kg
Table Item 04.1.2.6 Fruit-based spreads (e.g. chutney) excluding products of food category 04.1.2.5 15 mg/kg
Table Item 09.4 Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 15 mg/kg
Table Item 04.1.2.5 Jams, jellies, marmelades 200 mg/kg
Table Item 12.5.2 Mixes for soups and broths 30 mg/kg
Table Item 14.1.4.2 Non-carbonated water-based flavoured drinks, including punches and ades 5 mg/kg
Table Item 11.4 Other sugars and syrups (e.g. xylose, maple syrup, sugar toppings) 15 mg/kg
Table Item 06.4.3 Pre-cooked pastas and noodles and like products 15 mg/kg
153: For use in instant noodles only.
Table Item 01.6.2 Ripened cheese 15 mg/kg
201: For use in flavoured products only.
Table Item 09.3.3 Salmon substitutes, caviar, and other fish roe products 15 mg/kg
Table Item 12.6 Sauces and like products 30 mg/kg
Table Item 12.2.2 Seasonings and condiments 20 mg/kg
Table Item 09.2.5 Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 15 mg/kg
22: For use in smoked fish paste only.
Table Item 15.1 Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes) 45 mg/kg
Table Item 01.6.1 Unripened cheese 15 mg/kg
201: For use in flavoured products only.
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.).