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Quinoline yellow (104)

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GSFA Provisions for Quinoline yellow

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) 70 mg/kg
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 06.5 Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g. rice pudding, tapioca pudding) 100 mg/kg
Table Item 05.3 Chewing gum 30 mg/kg
445: Except for use at 300 mg/kg in lemon and citrus flavoured products.
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
445: Except for use at 300 mg/kg in lemon and citrus flavoured products.
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 10 mg/kg
Table Item 13.3 Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes (excluding products of food category 13.1) 10 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 10 mg/kg
Table Item 02.4 Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of food category 01.7 9 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 10 mg/kg
400: Except for use in products conforming to the Standard for Fermented Milks (CXS 243- 2003) at 150 mg/kg. 52: Excluding chocolate milk.
Table Item 13.6 Food supplements 300 mg/kg
535: Except for use in hard capsules and film coated tablets at 1800 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 290 mg/kg
41: For use in breading or batter coatings only.
Table Item 04.1.2.8 Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and coconut milk 10 mg/kg
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 05.2.1 Hard candy 100 mg/kg
442: Except for use at 300 mg/kg in lemon flavored candies.
Table Item 04.1.2.5 Jams, jellies, marmelades 100 mg/kg
Table Item 12.4 Mustards 300 mg/kg
Table Item 05.2.3 Nougats and marzipans 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 05.2.2 Soft candy 100 mg/kg
Table Item 12.5 Soups and broths 50 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) 100 mg/kg
Table Item 14.1.4 Water-based flavoured drinks, including "sport," "energy," or "electrolyte" drinks and particulated drinks 70 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.).