I

INDIGOTINE

Indigotine

INS: 132

Function: Colour

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.1.2	Dairy-based drinks, flavoured and/or fermented (e.g., chocolate milk, cocoa, eggnog, drinking yoghurt, whey- based drinks)	300 mg/kg		6
01.2.1.2	Fermented milks (plain), heat-treated after fermentation	6 mg/kg	Note 12	6
01.6.1	Unripened cheese	GMP	Note 3	6
01.6.2.2	Rind of ripened cheese	100 mg/kg		6
01.6.3	Whey cheese	GMP	Note 3	6
01.6.4	Processed cheese	200 mg/kg		6
01.6.5	Cheese analogues	GMP	Note 3	6
01.7	Dairy-based desserts (e.g., ice cream, ice milk, pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt)	300 mg/kg		6
02.1.3	Lard, tallow, fish oil, and other animal fats	GMP		6
02.2.1.1	Butter and concentrated butter	300 mg/kg		6
02.2.1.2	Margarine and similar products (e.g., butter-margarine blends)	GMP		6
02.4	Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of food category 01.7	300 mg/kg		6
03.0	Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet	300 mg/kg		6
04.1.1.2	Surface-treated fresh fruit	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
04.1.2.4	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit	200 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.5	Jams, jellies and marmelades	500 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.6	Fruit-based spreads (e.g., chutney) excluding products of food category 04.1.2.5	500 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.7	Candied fruit	200 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.8	Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and coconut milk	500 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.9	Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based desserts	300 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.11	Fruit fillings for pastries	300 mg/kg		6
04.2.1.2	Surface-treated fresh vegetables, and nuts and seeds	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
04.2.2.3	Vegetables and seaweeds in vinegar, oil, brine, or soy sauce	500 mg/kg		6
04.2.2.4	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) or retort pouch vegetables	200 mg/kg		6
04.2.2.6	Vegetable, and nut and seed pulps and preparations (e.g., vegetable desserts and sauces, candied vegetables, soybean curd) other than food category 04.2.2.5	200 mg/kg		6
05.1	Cocoa products and chocolate products including imitations and chocolate substitutes	450 mg/kg		6
05.2	Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougat, etc. other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4	450 mg/kg		6
05.3	Chewing gum	300 mg/kg		6
05.4	Decorations (e.g., for fine bakery wares), toppings (non- fruit) and sweet sauces	500 mg/kg		6
06.3	Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats	300 mg/kg		6
06.5	Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g., rice pudding, tapioca pudding)	300 mg/kg		6
07.0	Bakery wares	300 mg/kg		6
08.0	Meat and meat products, including poultry and game	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
09.1.1	Fresh fish	300 mg/kg	Note 50	6
09.1.2	Fresh mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	500 mg/kg	Note 15	6
09.2.1	Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	500 mg/kg	Note 95	6
09.2.2	Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
09.2.3	Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
09.2.4.1	Cooked fish and fish products	500 mg/kg		6
09.2.4.2	Cooked mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	250 mg/kg		6
09.2.4.3	Fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
09.2.5	Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	500 mg/kg	Note 22	6
09.3.1	Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms, marinated and/or in jelly	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
09.3.2	Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms, pickled and/or in brine	500 mg/kg	Note 16	6
09.3.3	Salmon substitutes, caviar, and other fish roe products	500 mg/kg		6
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	500 mg/kg		6
09.4	Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	500 mg/kg		6
10.1	Fresh eggs	GMP	Notes 3 & 4	6
10.4	Egg-based desserts (e.g., custard)	300 mg/kg		6
11.1	White and semi-white sugar (sucrose or saccharose), fructose, glucose (dextrose), xylose; sugar solutions and syrups, also (partially) inverted sugars, incl. molasses, treacle, and sugar toppings	300 mg/kg		6
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	300 mg/kg		6
11.4	Table-top sweeteners, including those containing high- intensity sweeteners	300 mg/kg		6
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	500 mg/kg		6
12.4	Mustards	300 mg/kg		6
12.5	Soups and broths	300 mg/kg		6
12.6	Sauces and like products	500 mg/kg		6
12.9	Protein products	100 mg/kg		6
13.1	Infant formulae and follow -on formulae	50 mg/kg		6
13.2	Weaning foods for infants and growing children	50 mg/kg		6
13.3	Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes, including those for infants and young children	50 mg/kg		6
13.4	Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction	50 mg/kg		6
13.5	Dietetic foods (e.g., supplementary foods for dietary use) excluding products of food categories 13.1 - 13.4	300 mg/kg		6
13.6	Food supplements	300 mg/kg		6
14.1.2.3	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for fruit juice	300 mg/kg		6
14.1.4	Water-based flavoured drinks, including “sport” or “electrolyte” drinks and particulated drinks	300 mg/kg		6
14.2.2	Cider and perry	200 mg/kg		6
14.2.3.4	Aromatized wine	200 mg/kg		6
14.2.4	Fruit wine	200 mg/kg		6
14.2.6.1	Spirituous beverages containing more than 15% alcohol	300 mg/kg		6
14.2.6.2	Spirituous beverages containing less than 15% alcohol	200 mg/kg		6
15.1	Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes)	300 mg/kg		6
15.2	Processed nuts, including covered nuts and nut mixtures(with e.g., dried fruit)	100 mg/kg		6
16.0	Composite foods (e.g., casseroles, meat pies, mincemeat) - foods that could not be placed in categories 01 - 15	500 mg/kg		6

INOSINIC ACID, 5'-

Inosinic Acid, 5'-

INS: 630

Function: Flavour Enhancer

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	GMP	Note 51	6

INSOLUBLE POLYVINYLPYRROLIDONE

Insoluble Polyviny lpyrrolidone

INS: 1202

Function: Colour Retention Agent, Stabilizer

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
14.2.3	Wines	7190 mg/kg	Note 18	6

IRON OXIDES

Iron Oxide, Black	INS: 172i
Iron Oxide, Red	INS: 172ii
Iron Oxide, Yellow	INS: 172iii

Function: Colour

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.1.2	Dairy-based drinks, flavoured and/or fermented (e.g., chocolate milk, cocoa, eggnog, drinking yoghurt, whey- based drinks)	GMP		6
01.2.2	Renneted milk	GMP		6
01.3.2	Beverage whiteners	GMP		6
01.4	Cream (plain) and the like	GMP		6
01.5.2	Milk and cream powder analogues	GMP		6
01.6.1	Unripened cheese	GMP		6
01.6.2.2	Rind of ripened cheese	GMP		6
01.6.3	Whey cheese	GMP	Note 3	6
01.6.4	Processed cheese	GMP		6
01.6.5	Cheese analogues	GMP		6
01.7	Dairy-based desserts (e.g., ice cream, ice milk, pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt)	GMP		6
02.2.1.2	Margarine and similar products (e.g., butter-margarine blends)	GMP		6
02.4	Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of food category 01.7	GMP		6
03.0	Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet	GMP		6
04.1.1.2	Surface-treated fresh fruit	GMP	Note 16	6
04.1.2.4	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit	GMP		6
04.1.2.5	Jams, jellies and marmelades	GMP		6
04.1.2.6	Fruit-based spreads (e.g., chutney) excluding products of food category 04.1.2.5	500 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.7	Candied fruit	GMP		6
04.1.2.8	Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and coconut milk	GMP		6
04.1.2.9	Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based desserts	GMP		6
04.2.1.2	Surface-treated fresh vegetables, and nuts and seeds	GMP	Note 16	6
04.2.2.3	Vegetables and seaweeds in vinegar, oil, brine, or soy sauce	500 mg/kg		6
04.2.2.4	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) or retort pouch vegetables	GMP		6
04.2.2.6	Vegetable, and nut and seed pulps and preparations (e.g., vegetable desserts and sauces, candied vegetables, soybean curd) other than food category 04.2.2.5	GMP		6
05.1.2	Cocoa-based spreads, including fillings	GMP		6
05.2	Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougat, etc. other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4	GMP		6
05.3	Chewing gum	6000 mg/kg		6
05.4	Decorations (e.g., for fine bakery wares), toppings (non- fruit) and sweet sauces	GMP		6
06.3	Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats	GMP		6
06.5	Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g., rice pudding, tapioca pudding)	GMP		6
07.2	Fine bakery wares	GMP		6
08.1.1	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, whole pieces or cuts	GMP	Note 16	6
08.1.2	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, comminuted	1000 mg/kg	Note 94	6
08.2	Processed meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or cuts	GMP	Note 16	6
08.3.1.1	Cured (including salted) non-heat treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	1000 mg/kg	Note 78	6
08.3.1.2	Cured (including salted) and dried non-heat treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	GMP	Note 16	6
08.3.1.3	Fermented non-heat treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	GMP	Note 16	6
08.3.2	Heat-treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	GMP	Note 16	6
08.3.3	Frozen processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	GMP	Note 16	6
08.4	Edible casings (e.g., sausage casings)	1000 mg/kg	Note 72	6
09.1.1	Fresh fish	GMP	Note 50	6
09.1.2	Fresh mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 16	6
09.2.1	Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 95	6
09.2.2	Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 16	6
09.2.3	Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 16	6
09.2.4.1	Cooked fish and fish products	GMP		6
09.2.4.2	Cooked mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		6
09.2.4.3	Fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 16	6
09.2.5	Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 22	6
09.3.1	Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms, marinated and/or in jelly	GMP	Note 16	6
09.3.2	Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms, pickled and/or in brine	GMP	Note 16	6
09.3.3	Salmon substitutes, caviar, and other fish roe products	GMP		6
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	GMP		6
09.4	Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	500 mg/kg		6
10.1	Fresh eggs	GMP	Notes 3 & 4	6
10.4	Egg-based desserts (e.g., custard)	GMP		6
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	GMP		6
12.4	Mustards	GMP		6
12.5	Soups and broths	GMP		6
12.6	Sauces and like products	GMP		6
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 05.1.2	GMP		6
12.9	Protein products	GMP		6
13.0	Food stuffs intended for particular nutritional uses	GMP		6
14.1.3.2	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) vegetable nectar	GMP		6
14.1.3.4	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for vegetable nectar	GMP		6
14.1.4	Water-based flavoured drinks, including “sport” or “electrolyte” drinks and particulated drinks	100 mg/kg		6
14.2.2	Cider and perry	GMP		6
14.2.3.2	Sparkling and semi-sparkling wines	GMP		6
14.2.3.4	Aromatized wine	GMP		6
14.2.4	Fruit wine	GMP		6
14.2.6	Spirituous beverages	GMP		6
15.1	Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes)	GMP		6
15.2	Processed nuts, including covered nuts and nut mixtures (with e.g., dried fruit)	GMP		6
16.0	Composite foods (e.g., casseroles, meat pies, mincemeat) - foods that could not be placed in categories 01 - 15	GMP		6

ISOMALT

Isomalt

INS: 953

Function: Anticaking Agent, Bulking Agent, Emulsifier, Glazing Agent, Sweetener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.2.1.2	Fermented milks (plain), heat-treated after fermentation	GMP		6
01.2.2	Renneted milk	GMP		6
04.1.1.2	Surface-treated fresh fruit	GMP	Note 16	6
04.2.1.2	Surface-treated fresh vegetables, and nuts and seeds	GMP	Note 16	6
06.4.2	Pre-cooked or dried pastas and noodles and like products	GMP	Note 54	6
08.1.1	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, whole pieces or cuts	GMP	Note 16	6
08.1.2	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, comminuted	GMP		6
09.1	Fresh fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 16	6
09.2.1	Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		6
09.2.2	Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 16	6
09.2.3	Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 16	6
09.2.4.1	Cooked fish and fish products	GMP		6
09.2.4.2	Cooked mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		6
09.2.4.3	Fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 16	6
09.2.5	Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		6
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	GMP		6
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	GMP	Note 51	6
13.1	Infant formulae and follow -on formulae	GMP		6
13.2	Weaning foods for infants and growing children	GMP		6