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CAROTENOIDS

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Functional Classes

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Participating Additive(s)

Number Name
160a(i) beta-Carotenes, synthetic
160a(iii) beta-Carotenes, Blakeslea trispora
160e Carotenal, beta-apo-8'-
160f Carotenoic acid, ethyl ester, beta-apo-8'-

GSFA Provisions for CAROTENOIDS

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 06.6 Batters (e.g. for breading or batters for fish or poultry) 500 mg/kg
Table Item 01.3.2 Beverage whiteners 100 mg/kg
Table Item 07.1.4 Bread-type products, including bread stuffing and bread crumbs 200 mg/kg
116: For use in doughs only.
Table Item 06.3 Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats 200 mg/kg
Table Item 02.2.1 Butter 25 mg/kg
291: Except for use of beta-apo-8'-carotenal (INS 160e) and beta-apo-8'-carotenoic acid, methyl or ethyl ester (INS 160f) at 35 mg/kg. 146: Beta-carotene (synthetic) (INS 160a(i)) only.
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
104: Excluding canned pears (except for use in special holiday packs) and canned pineapples conforming to the Standard for Certain Canned Fruits (CODEX STAN 319-2015). 161: Subject to national legislation of the importing country aimed, in particular, at consistency with Section 3.2 of the Preamble.
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 50 mg/kg
161: Subject to national legislation of the importing country aimed, in particular, at consistency with Section 3.2 of the Preamble.
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 200 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 100 mg/kg
Table Item 14.2.2 Cider and perry 200 mg/kg
Table Item 05.1.4 Cocoa and chocolate products 100 mg/kg
183: For use in surface decoration only.
Table Item 05.1.3 Cocoa-based spreads, including fillings 100 mg/kg
161: Subject to national legislation of the importing country aimed, in particular, at consistency with Section 3.2 of the Preamble. XS86: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Cocoa Butter (CODEX STAN 86-1981).
Table Item 05.2 Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougats, etc. other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4 100 mg/kg
XS309R: Excluding products conforming to the Codex Regional Standard for Halawa Tehenia (CODEX STAN 309R-211).
Table Item 07.1.2 Crackers, excluding sweet crackers 1000 mg/kg
Table Item 01.4.4 Cream analogues 20 mg/kg
Table Item 08.3.1.2 Cured (including salted) and dried non-heat treated 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 08.3.1.1 Cured (including salted) non-heat treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products 100 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) 100 mg/kg
Table Item 05.4 Decorations (e.g. for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) and sweet sauces 100 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 13.6 300 mg/kg
Table Item 13.3 Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes (excluding products of food category 13.1) 50 mg/kg
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 200 mg/kg
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 1000 mg/kg
161: Subject to national legislation of the importing country aimed, in particular, at consistency with Section 3.2 of the Preamble.
Table Item 08.4 Edible casings (e.g. sausage casings) 100 mg/kg
Table Item 03.0 Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet 200 mg/kg
Table Item 10.4 Egg-based desserts (e.g. custard) 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 200 mg/kg
Table Item 02.2.2 Fat spreads, dairy fat spreads and blended spreads 35 mg/kg
Table Item 02.4 Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of food category 01.7 150 mg/kg
Table Item 04.1.2.10 Fermented fruit products 500 mg/kg
Table Item 08.3.1.3 Fermented non-heat treated 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 04.2.2.7 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 50 mg/kg
Table Item 07.2 Fine bakery wares (sweet, salty, savoury) and mixes 100 mg/kg
Table Item 01.1.4 Flavoured fluid milk drinks 150 mg/kg
52: Excluding chocolate milk. 402: For use in products conforming to the Standard for Fermented Milk (CODEX STAN 243- 2003) at 100 mg/kg.
Table Item 13.6 Food supplements 300 mg/kg
Table Item 10.1 Fresh eggs 1000 mg/kg
4: For use in decoration, stamping, marking or branding the product only.
Table Item 09.1.1 Fresh fish 300 mg/kg
4: For use in decoration, stamping, marking or branding the product only.
Table Item 08.1.2 Fresh meat, poultry, and game, comminuted 100 mg/kg
16: For use in glaze, coatings or decorations for fruit, vegetables, meat or fish only. 4: For use in decoration, stamping, marking or branding the product only.
Table Item 09.1.2 Fresh mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 100 mg/kg
16: For use in glaze, coatings or decorations for fruit, vegetables, meat or fish only. 4: For use in decoration, stamping, marking or branding the product only. XS312: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Live Abalone and for Raw Fresh Chilled or Frozen Abalone for Direct Consumption or for Further Processing (CODEX STAN 312-2013). XS292: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Live and Raw Bivalve Molluscs (CODEX STAN 292-2008). XS315: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Fresh and Quick Frozen Raw Scallop Products (CODEX STAN 315-2014).
Table Item 04.1.2.11 Fruit fillings for pastries 100 mg/kg
Table Item 04.1.2.3 Fruit in vinegar, oil, or brine 1000 mg/kg
Table Item 04.1.2.8 Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and coconut milk 100 mg/kg
182: Excluding coconut milk. 161: Subject to national legislation of the importing country aimed, in particular, at consistency with Section 3.2 of the Preamble.
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 04.1.2.5 500 mg/kg
Table Item 09.4 Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 100 mg/kg
XS70: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Canned Tuna and Bonito (70-1981). XS94: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Canned Sardines and Sardine-Type Products (CODEX STAN 94-1981). 95: For non-standardized foods: for use in surimi and fish roe products only. XS119: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Canned Finfish (CODEX STAN 119-1981). XS37: Excluding 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). XS90: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Canned Crab Meat (CODEX STAN 90-1981).
Table Item 08.3.2 Heat-treated 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. XS88: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Corned Beef (CODEX STAN 88-1981). XS89: Excluding products conforming to Standard for Luncheon Meat (CODEX STAN 89-1981). XS98: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Cooked Cured Chopped Meat (CODEX STAN 98-1981).
Table Item 05.1.5 Imitation chocolate, chocolate substitute products 100 mg/kg
Table Item 04.1.2.5 Jams, jellies, marmelades 200 mg/kg
Table Item 02.1.3 Lard, tallow, fish oil, and other animal fats 25 mg/kg
Table Item 01.5.2 Milk and cream powder analogues 100 mg/kg
209: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Blend of Skimmed Milk and Vegetable Fat in Powdered Form (CODEX STAN 251-2006).
Table Item 12.4 Mustards 300 mg/kg
Table Item 07.1.3 Other ordinary bakery products (e.g. bagels, pita, English muffins) 100 mg/kg
Table Item 11.4 Other sugars and syrups (e.g. xylose, maple syrup, sugar toppings) 50 mg/kg
217: Except for use in toppings at 300 mg/kg.
Table Item 06.4.3 Pre-cooked pastas and noodles and like products 1200 mg/kg
153: For use in instant noodles only. 474: Except for use of beta-carotenes, Blakeslea trispora (INS 160a(iii)) at 1000 mg/kg, carotenal, beta-apo-8’ (INS 160e) at 200 mg/kg, and carotenoic acid, ethyl ester, beta-apo-8’ (INS 160f) at 1000 mg/kg in products conforming to the Standard for Instant Noodles (CXS 249-2006).
Table Item 01.6.4 Processed cheese 100 mg/kg
Table Item 09.2 Processed fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 100 mg/kg
304: For use only in breaded or batter coatings in products conforming to the Standard for Quick Frozen Fish Sticks (Fish Fingers), Fish Portions and Fish Fillets – Breaded or in Batter (CODEX STAN 166- 1989), singly or in combination: carotenoids (beta-carotenes, synthetic (INS 160a(i)), beta-carotenes, Blakeslea trispora (INS 160a(iii)), carotenal, beta-apo-8’ (INS 160e), carotenoic acid, ethyl ester, betaapo-8’- (INS 160f)) and beta-carotenes, vegetable (INS 160a(ii)). XS165: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Quick Frozen Blocks of Fish Fillet, Minced Fish Flesh and Mixtures of Fillets and Minced Fish Flesh (CODEX STAN 165-1989). 95: For non-standardized foods: for use in surimi and fish roe products only. XS167: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Salted Fish and Dried Salted Fish of the Gadidae Family of Fishes (CODEX STAN 167-1989). XS189: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Dried Shark Fins (CODEX STAN 189-1993). XS190: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Quick Frozen Fish Fillets (CODEX STAN 190-1995). XS191: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Quick Frozen Raw Squid (CODEX STAN 191-1995). XS236: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Boiled Dried Salted Anchovies (CODEX STAN 236-2003). XS222: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Crackers from Marine and Freshwater Fish, Crustaceans and Molluscan Shellfish (CODEX STAN 222-2001). XS312: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Live Abalone and for Raw Fresh Chilled or Frozen Abalone for Direct Consumption or for Further Processing (CODEX STAN 312-2013). XS292: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Live and Raw Bivalve Molluscs (CODEX STAN 292-2008). XS311: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Smoked Fish, Smoked-flavoured Fish and Smoke-dried Fish (CODEX STAN 311-2013). XS244: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Salted Atlantic Herring and Salted Sprat (CODEX STAN 244-2004). XS36: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Quick Frozen Finfish, Uneviscerated and Eviscerated (CODEX STAN 36-1981). XS315: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Fresh and Quick Frozen Raw Scallop Products (CODEX STAN 315-2014). XS92: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Quick Frozen Shrimps and Prawns (CODEX STAN 92-1981). XS95: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Quick Frozen Lobsters (CODEX STAN 95-1981).
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 500 mg/kg
Table Item 01.6.2.1 Ripened cheese, includes rind 100 mg/kg
458: Except for use in cheese mass only for products conforming to the Standards for Cheddar (CXS 263-1966), Danbo (CXS 264-1966), Edam (CXS 265-1966), Gouda (CXS 266-1966), Havarti (CXS 267-1966), Samsø (CXS 268-1966), Emmental (CXS 269-1967), Tilsiter (CXS 270-1968), Saint-Paulin (CXS 271-1968), Provolone (CXS 272-1968), Coulommiers (CXS 274-1969), Camembert (CXS 276-1973) and Brie (CXS 277-1973); singly or in combination at 35 mg/kg.
Table Item 12.7 Salads (e.g. macaroni salad, potato salad) and sandwich spreads excluding cocoa- and nut-based spreads of food categories 04.2.2.5 and 05.1.3 50 mg/kg
Table Item 12.6 Sauces and like products 500 mg/kg
XS302: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Fish Sauce (CODEX STAN 302-2011).
Table Item 12.2.2 Seasonings and condiments 500 mg/kg
Table Item 09.3 Semi-preserved fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 100 mg/kg
95: For non-standardized foods: for use in surimi and fish roe products only. XS291: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Sturgeon Caviar (CODEX STAN 291-2010).
Table Item 15.1 Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes) 100 mg/kg
Table Item 12.5 Soups and broths 300 mg/kg
341: For use in products conforming to the Codex Standard for Bouillons and Consommés (CODEX STAN 117-1981) singly or in combination: carotenes, beta-, vegetable (INS 160a(ii)), carotenal, beta-apo-8’- (INS 160e) and carotenoic acid, ethyl ester, beta-apo-8'- (INS 160f) at 50 mg/kg.
Table Item 07.1.5 Steamed breads and buns 100 mg/kg
216: For use in maize-based products only.
Table Item 04.2.1.2 Surface-treated fresh vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweeds, and nuts and seeds 500 mg/kg
16: For use in glaze, coatings or decorations for fruit, vegetables, meat or fish only. 161: Subject to national legislation of the importing country aimed, in particular, at consistency with Section 3.2 of the Preamble. 4: For use in decoration, stamping, marking or branding the product only.
Table Item 01.6.1 Unripened cheese 100 mg/kg
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 50 mg/kg
161: Subject to national legislation of the importing country aimed, in particular, at consistency with Section 3.2 of the Preamble. 92: Excluding tomato-based sauces.
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) 50 mg/kg
161: Subject to national legislation of the importing country aimed, in particular, at consistency with Section 3.2 of the Preamble.
Table Item 02.1.2 Vegetable oils and fats 25 mg/kg
232: For use in vegetable fats conforming to the Standard for Edible Fats and Oils Not Covered by Individual Standards (CODEX STAN 19-1981) only.
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
161: Subject to national legislation of the importing country aimed, in particular, at consistency with Section 3.2 of the Preamble.
Table Item 14.1.4 Water-based flavoured drinks, including "sport," "energy," or "electrolyte" drinks and particulated drinks 100 mg/kg
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.).