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Tartrazine (102)

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GSFA Provisions for Tartrazine

Table Items Number Category MaxLevel Notes
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 05.4 300 mg/kg
Table Item 05.4 Decorations (e.g. for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) and sweet sauces 500 mg/kg
Table Item 01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 300 mg/kg
52: Excluding chocolate milk.
Table Item 09.4 Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 30 mg/kg
XS119: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Canned Finfish (CODEX STAN 119-1981). 435: For use of tartrazine (INS 102), sunset yellow FCF (INS 110), amaranth (INS 123) and ponceau 4R (cochineal red A) (INS 124) singly or in combination up to a maximum level of 30 mg/kg in the final product as colours only for the purpose of restoring colour lost in processing for products conforming to the Standard for Canned Shrimps or Prawns (CODEX STAN 37-1991). XS3: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Canned Salmon (CODEX STAN 3-1981). XS94: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Canned Sardines and Sardine-Type Products (CODEX STAN 94-1981). XS90: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Canned Crab Meat (CODEX STAN 90-1981). XS70: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Canned Tuna and Bonito (70-1981).
Table Item 06.4.3 Pre-cooked pastas and noodles and like products 300 mg/kg
194: For use in instant noodles conforming to the Standard for Instant Noodles (CODEX STAN 249-2006) only.
Table Item 09.2.5 Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 100 mg/kg
XS167: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Salted Fish and Dried Salted Fish of the Gadidae Family of Fishes (CODEX STAN 167-1989). 382: For use only in smoked fish and smoke-flavoured fish products conforming to the Standard for Smoked Fish, Smoked-flavoured fish, and Smoke-dried fish (CODEX STAN 311-2013). XS189: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Dried Shark Fins (CODEX STAN 189-1993). XS222: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Crackers from Marine and Freshwater Fish, Crustaceans and Molluscan Shellfish (CODEX STAN 222-2001). XS244: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Salted Atlantic Herring and Salted Sprat (CODEX STAN 244-2004). XS236: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Boiled Dried Salted Anchovies (CODEX STAN 236-2003).
Table Item 12.5 Soups and broths 50 mg/kg
99: For use in products conforming to the Standard for Bouillons and Consommés (CODEX STAN 117-1981) 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.).