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Brown HT (155)

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GSFA Provisions for Brown HT

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) 200 mg/kg
Table Item 06.3 Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats 30 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 06.5 Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g. rice pudding, tapioca pudding) 30 mg/kg
Table Item 05.3 Chewing gum 300 mg/kg
Table Item 14.2.2 Cider and perry 200 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 50 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 50 mg/kg
Table Item 08.4 Edible casings (e.g. sausage casings) 290 mg/kg
365: On a casings basis.
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 50 mg/kg
Table Item 01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 150 mg/kg
52: Excluding chocolate milk.
Table Item 13.6 Food supplements 300 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 240 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 30 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 12.6.2 Non-emulsified sauces (e.g. ketchup, cheese sauce, cream sauce, brown gravy) 50 mg/kg
576: For use only in products conforming to the Standard for Chili Sauce (CXS 306-2011).
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
577: Except for use at 50 mg/kg in products conforming to the Standard for Chili Sauce (CXS 306-2011).
Table Item 15.1 Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes) 200 mg/kg
Table Item 12.5 Soups and broths 50 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 14.2.4 Wines (other than grape) 200 mg/kg
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.).