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Curcumin (100(i))

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GSFA Provisions for Curcumin

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) 100 mg/kg
Table Item 06.6 Batters (e.g. for breading or batters for fish or poultry) 100 mg/kg
Table Item 14.2.1 Beer and malt beverages 200 mg/kg
425: For use in malt liquor only.
Table Item 07.1.4 Bread-type products, including bread stuffing and bread crumbs 200 mg/kg
398: Some Codex Members allow the use of additives with sweetener and colour functions in this food category while others limit this food category to products without these additives.
Table Item 06.3 Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats 200 mg/kg
Table Item 04.1.2.7 Candied fruit 200 mg/kg
Table Item 04.1.2.4 Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit 200 mg/kg
267: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Certain Canned Fruits (CODEX STAN 319-2015) except for use in special holiday packs for canned pears conforming to the standard.
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
Table Item 01.6.2.3 Cheese powder (for reconstitution; e.g. for cheese sauces) 100 mg/kg
Table Item 05.3 Chewing gum 300 mg/kg
444: Except for use at 700 mg/kg in yellow fruit or spice flavoured chewing gum.
Table Item 14.2.2 Cider and perry 200 mg/kg
Table Item 05.1.4 Cocoa and chocolate products 300 mg/kg
183: For use in surface decoration only.
Table Item 05.1.3 Cocoa-based spreads, including fillings 300 mg/kg
Table Item 05.2 Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougats, etc. other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4 300 mg/kg
Table Item 09.2.4.1 Cooked fish and fish products 420 mg/kg
Table Item 07.1.2 Crackers, excluding sweet crackers 200 mg/kg
Table Item 01.7 Dairy-based desserts (e.g. pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt) 150 mg/kg
402: Except for use in products conforming to the Standard for Fermented Milks (CXS 243- 2003) at 100 mg/kg.
Table Item 05.4 Decorations (e.g. for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) and sweet sauces 500 mg/kg
Table Item 13.5 Dietetic foods (e.g. supplementary foods for dietary use) excluding products of food categories 13.1 - 13.4 and 13.6 50 mg/kg
Table Item 13.3 Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes (excluding products of food category 13.1) 50 mg/kg
566: Excluding products conforming to the Guidelines for Ready to Use Therapeutic Foods (CXG 95-2022).
Table Item 13.4 Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction 50 mg/kg
Table Item 14.2.6 Distilled spirituous beverages containing more than 15% alcohol 100 mg/kg
Table Item 06.4.2 Dried pastas and noodles and like products 200 mg/kg
Table Item 08.4 Edible casings (e.g. sausage casings) 4000 mg/kg
365: On a casings basis.
Table Item 03.0 Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet 150 mg/kg
Table Item 02.3 Fat emulsions mainly of type oil-in-water, including mixed and/or flavoured products based on fat emulsions 100 mg/kg
Table Item 02.2.2 Fat spreads, dairy fat spreads and blended spreads 10 mg/kg
217: Except for use in products conforming to the Standard for Dairy Fat Spreads (CODEX STAN 253-2006) at 5 mg/kg. 232: Except for use in mustard flavoured products at 30 mg/kg.
Table Item 02.4 Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of food category 01.7 150 mg/kg
Table Item 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
Table Item 07.2 Fine bakery wares (sweet, salty, savoury) and mixes 200 mg/kg
Table Item 09.3.1 Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms, marinated and/or in jelly 100 mg/kg
16: For use in glaze, coatings or decorations for fruit, vegetables, meat or fish only.
Table Item 09.3.2 Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms, pickled and/or in brine 100 mg/kg
16: For use in glaze, coatings or decorations for fruit, vegetables, meat or fish only.
Table Item 01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 150 mg/kg
402: Except for use in products conforming to the Standard for Fermented Milks (CXS 243- 2003) at 100 mg/kg. 52: Excluding chocolate milk.
Table Item 01.6.4.2 Flavoured processed cheese, including containing fruit, vegetables, meat, etc. 100 mg/kg
Table Item 13.6 Food supplements 300 mg/kg
539: For use in solid forms as sold to the consumer only.
Table Item 08.1.2 Fresh meat, poultry, and game, comminuted 20 mg/kg
Table Item 08.1.1 Fresh meat, poultry, and game, whole pieces or cuts 300 mg/kg
4: For use in decoration, stamping, marking or branding the product 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 200 mg/kg
41: For use in breading or batter coatings only.
Table Item 09.2.1 Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 500 mg/kg
Table Item 09.2.3 Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 500 mg/kg
Table Item 08.3.3 Frozen processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products 20 mg/kg
16: For use in glaze, coatings or decorations for fruit, vegetables, meat or fish only.
Table Item 04.1.2.11 Fruit fillings for pastries 150 mg/kg
Table Item 04.1.2.8 Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and coconut milk 300 mg/kg
Table Item 04.1.2.9 Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based desserts 150 mg/kg
Table Item 04.1.2.6 Fruit-based spreads (e.g. chutney) excluding products of food category 04.1.2.5 200 mg/kg
Table Item 09.4 Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 100 mg/kg
Table Item 08.3.2 Heat-treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products 20 mg/kg
Table Item 05.1.5 Imitation chocolate, chocolate substitute products 300 mg/kg
Table Item 04.1.2.5 Jams, jellies, marmelades 500 mg/kg
Table Item 02.1.3 Lard, tallow, fish oil, and other animal fats 5 mg/kg
512: For use in products conforming to the Standard for Edible fats and oils not Covered by Individual Standards (CXS 19-1981) and the Standard for Named Animal Fats (CXS 211-1999) for the purposes of restoring natural colour lost in processing, or standardizing colour only.
Table Item 07.1.6 Mixes for bread and ordinary bakery wares 200 mg/kg
398: Some Codex Members allow the use of additives with sweetener and colour functions in this food category while others limit this food category to products without these additives.
Table Item 12.4 Mustards 300 mg/kg
Table Item 12.6.2 Non-emulsified sauces (e.g. ketchup, cheese sauce, cream sauce, brown gravy)
576: For use only in products conforming to the Standard for Chili Sauce (CXS 306-2011).
Table Item 08.3.1 Non-heat treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products 20 mg/kg
118: Except for use in tocino (fresh, cured sausage) at 1 000 mg/kg.
Table Item 07.1.3 Other ordinary bakery products (e.g. bagels, pita, English muffins) 200 mg/kg
398: Some Codex Members allow the use of additives with sweetener and colour functions in this food category while others limit this food category to products without these additives.
Table Item 01.6.4.1 Plain processed cheese 100 mg/kg
Table Item 06.4.3 Pre-cooked pastas and noodles and like products 100 mg/kg
Table Item 08.2 Processed meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or cuts 20 mg/kg
Table Item 15.2 Processed nuts, including coated nuts and nut mixtures (with e.g. dried fruit) 100 mg/kg
Table Item 01.6.2.2 Rind of ripened cheese 100 mg/kg
Table Item 01.6.2.1 Ripened cheese, includes rind 500 mg/kg
498: Only for use in the edible cheese rind in products conforming to the General Standard for Cheese (CXS 283-1978).
Table Item 09.3.3 Salmon substitutes, caviar, and other fish roe products 500 mg/kg
Table Item 12.6 Sauces and like products 500 mg/kg
Table Item 12.2.2 Seasonings and condiments 500 mg/kg
467: Except for use in seasonings and condiments with tumeric or saffron at 1,500 mg/kg.
Table Item 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 - 09.3.3 100 mg/kg
Table Item 09.2.5 Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 20 mg/kg
Table Item 15.1 Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes) 300 mg/kg
Table Item 12.5 Soups and broths 50 mg/kg
Table Item 06.8.1 Soybean-based beverages 1 mg/kg
Table Item 07.1.5 Steamed breads and buns 200 mg/kg
201: For use in flavoured products only. 398: Some Codex Members allow the use of additives with sweetener and colour functions in this food category while others limit this food category to products without these additives.
Table Item 01.6.1 Unripened cheese 150 mg/kg
493: For use in products conforming to the Group Standard for Unripened Cheese including Fresh Cheese (CXS 221-2001), for treatment of edible cheese rind only. 201: For use in flavoured products only.
Table Item 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 04.2.2.5 200 mg/kg
Table Item 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) 200 mg/kg
Table Item 02.1.2 Vegetable oils and fats 5 mg/kg
508: For use in products, excluding virgin or cold pressed oils and vegetable oils, conforming to the Standard for Edible Fats and Oils not Covered by Individual Standards (CXS 19-1981) only, for the purposes of restoring natural colour lost in processing, or standardising colour.
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 50 mg/kg
Table Item 14.1.4 Water-based flavoured drinks, including "sport," "energy," or "electrolyte" drinks and particulated drinks 60 mg/kg
127: On the served to the consumer basis.
Table Item 14.2.4 Wines (other than grape) 200 mg/kg
Table Item 07.1.1.1 Yeast-leavened breads and specialty breads 200 mg/kg
398: Some Codex Members allow the use of additives with sweetener and colour functions in this food category while others limit this food category to products without these additives.
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.).