BENZOATES

Benzoic Acid

INS: 210

Potassium Benzoate

INS: 212

Sodium Benzoate

INS: 211

Calcium Benzoate

INS: 213

Function: Preservative

Food Cat. No.

Food Category

Max Level

Comments

Step

Year

04.1.2.2

Dried fruit

800 mg/kg

Note 13

6

04.1.2.4

Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit

800 mg/kg

Note 13

6

04.2.2.2

Dried vegetables, seaweeds, and nuts and seeds

1000 mg/kg

Note 13

6

04.2.2.4

Canned or bottled (pasteurized) or retort pouch vegetables

1000 mg/kg

Note 13

6

05.1.1

Cocoa mixes (powders and syrups)

1500 mg/kg

Note 13

6

05.1.2

Cocoa-based spreads, including fillings

1500 mg/kg

Note 13

6

05.1.4

Imitation chocolate, chocolate substitue products

1500 mg/kg

Note 13

6

05.2

Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougat, etc. other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4

1500 mg/kg

Note 13

6

05.3

Chewing gum

1500 mg/kg

Note 13

6

05.4

Decorations (e.g., for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) and sweet sauces

1500 mg/kg

Note 13

6

06.2

Flours and starches

500 mg/kg

Note 13

6

06.4.2

Pre-cooked or dried pastas and noodles and like products

1000 mg/kg

Note 13

6

06.5

Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g., rice pudding, tapioca pudding)

1000 mg/kg

Note 13

6

07.0

Bakery wares

1000 mg/kg

Note 13

6

07.1.3

Other ordinary bakery products (e.g., bagels, pita, English muffins)

GMP

Note 13

6

07.2

Fine bakery wares

1000 mg/kg

Note 13

6

08.2.1.1

Cured (including salted) non-heat treated processed meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or cuts

1000 mg/kg

Notes 13 & 16

6

08.2.1.2

Cured (including salted) and dried non-heat treated processed meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or cuts

GMP

Notes 3 & 13

6

08.2.2

Heat-treated processed meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or cuts

1000 mg/kg

Notes 13 & 16

6

08.3.1.1

Cured (including salted) non-heat treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products

1000 mg/kg

Notes 13 & 16

6

08.3.1.2

Cured (including salted) and dried non-heat treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products

750 mg/kg

Note 13

6

08.3.1.2

Cured (including salted) and dried non-heat treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products

1000 mg/kg

Notes 13 & 16

6

08.3.2

Heat-treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products

1000 mg/kg

Note 13

6

09.2.4.2

Cooked mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms

2000 mg/kg

Notes 13 & 82

6

09.2.5

Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms

200 mg/kg

Note 13

6

09.3.1

Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms, marinated and/or in jelly

2000 mg/kg

Note 13

6

09.3.2

Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms, pickled and/or in brine

2000 mg/kg

Note 13

6

09.3.3

Salmon substitutes, caviar, and other fish roe products

2500 mg/kg

Note 13

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

2000 mg/kg

Note 13

6

09.4

Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms

1000 mg/kg

Note 13

6

10.2.1

Liquid egg products

5000 mg/kg

Note 13

6

10.4

Egg-based desserts (e.g., custard)

1000 mg/kg

Note 13

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

1000 mg/kg

Note 13

6

11.2

Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)

600 mg/kg

Note 13

6

11.2

Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)

1000 mg/kg

Note 13

6

12.2

Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)

1000 mg/kg

Note 13

6

12.3

Vinegars

1000 mg/kg

Note 13

6

12.4

Mustards

1500 mg/kg

Note 13

6

12.5

Soups and broths

1000 mg/kg

Note 13

6

12.6

Sauces and like products

1000 mg/kg

Note 13

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

1500 mg/kg

Note 13

6

13.3

Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes, including those for infants and young children

1500 mg/kg

Notes 13 & 83

6

13.4

Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction

1500 mg/kg

Note 13

6

13.5

Dietetic foods (e.g., supplementary foods for dietary use) excluding products of food categories 13.1 - 13.4

2000 mg/kg

Note 13

6

14.1.1.2

Table waters and soda waters

200 mg/kg

Note 13

6

14.1.2.1

Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit juice

2100 mg/kg

Note 13

6

14.1.2.2

Canned or bottled (pasteurized) vegetable juice

2000 mg/kg

Note 13

6

14.1.2.3

Concentrate (liquid or solid) for fruit juice

2100 mg/kg

Note 13

6

14.1.2.4

Concentrate (liquid or solid) for vegetable juice

1400 mg/kg

Note 13

6

14.1.3.1

Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit nectar

2000 mg/kg

Note 13

6

14.1.3.2

Canned or bottled (pasteurized) vegetable nectar

2000 mg/kg

Note 13

6

14.1.3.3

Concentrate (liquid or solid) for fruit nectar

1000 mg/kg

Note 13

6

14.1.3.4

Concentrate (liquid or solid) for vegetable nectar

500 mg/kg

Note 13

6

14.1.3.4

Concentrate (liquid or solid) for vegetable nectar

1000 mg/kg

Note 13

6

14.1.4

Water-based flavoured drinks, including “sport” or “electrolyte” drinks and particulated drinks

1000 mg/kg

Note 13

6

14.1.5

Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa

600 mg/kg

Note 13

6

14.2.1

Beer and malt beverages

200 mg/kg

Notes 13, 84 & 85

6

14.2.1

Beer and malt beverages

1000 mg/kg

Notes 13 & 85

6

14.2.2

Cider and perry

200 mg/kg

Note 13

6

14.2.2

Cider and perry

1000 mg/kg

Note 13

6

14.2.3

Wines

800 mg/kg

Notes 13 & 85

6

14.2.3

Wines

1000 mg/kg

Notes 13 & 85

6

14.2.4

Fruit wine

800 mg/kg

Note 13

6

14.2.4

Fruit wine

1000 mg/kg

Note 13

6

14.2.5

Mead

200 mg/kg

Note 13

6

14.2.5

Mead

1000 mg/kg

Note 13

6

14.2.6

Spirituous beverages

400 mg/kg

Notes 13 & 85

6

14.2.6.2

Spirituous beverages containing less than 15% alcohol

1000 mg/kg

Note 13

6

15.1

Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes)

500 mg/kg

Note 13

6

15.1

Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes)

1000 mg/kg

Note 13

6

16.0

Composite foods (e.g., casseroles, meat pies, mincemeat) - foods that could not be placed in categories 01 - 15

1000 mg/kg

Note 13

6

Benzoic Acid	INS: 210
Potassium Benzoate	INS: 212
Sodium Benzoate	INS: 211
Calcium Benzoate	INS: 213

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
04.1.2.2	Dried fruit	800 mg/kg	Note 13	6
04.1.2.4	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit	800 mg/kg	Note 13	6
04.2.2.2	Dried vegetables, seaweeds, and nuts and seeds	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
04.2.2.4	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) or retort pouch vegetables	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
05.1.1	Cocoa mixes (powders and syrups)	1500 mg/kg	Note 13	6
05.1.2	Cocoa-based spreads, including fillings	1500 mg/kg	Note 13	6
05.1.4	Imitation chocolate, chocolate substitue products	1500 mg/kg	Note 13	6
05.2	Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougat, etc. other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4	1500 mg/kg	Note 13	6
05.3	Chewing gum	1500 mg/kg	Note 13	6
05.4	Decorations (e.g., for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) and sweet sauces	1500 mg/kg	Note 13	6
06.2	Flours and starches	500 mg/kg	Note 13	6
06.4.2	Pre-cooked or dried pastas and noodles and like products	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
06.5	Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g., rice pudding, tapioca pudding)	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
07.0	Bakery wares	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
07.1.3	Other ordinary bakery products (e.g., bagels, pita, English muffins)	GMP	Note 13	6
07.2	Fine bakery wares	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
08.2.1.1	Cured (including salted) non-heat treated processed meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or cuts	1000 mg/kg	Notes 13 & 16	6
08.2.1.2	Cured (including salted) and dried non-heat treated processed meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or cuts	GMP	Notes 3 & 13	6
08.2.2	Heat-treated processed meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or cuts	1000 mg/kg	Notes 13 & 16	6
08.3.1.1	Cured (including salted) non-heat treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	1000 mg/kg	Notes 13 & 16	6
08.3.1.2	Cured (including salted) and dried non-heat treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	750 mg/kg	Note 13	6
08.3.1.2	Cured (including salted) and dried non-heat treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	1000 mg/kg	Notes 13 & 16	6
08.3.2	Heat-treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
09.2.4.2	Cooked mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	2000 mg/kg	Notes 13 & 82	6
09.2.5	Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	200 mg/kg	Note 13	6
09.3.1	Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms, marinated and/or in jelly	2000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
09.3.2	Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms, pickled and/or in brine	2000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
09.3.3	Salmon substitutes, caviar, and other fish roe products	2500 mg/kg	Note 13	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	2000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
09.4	Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
10.2.1	Liquid egg products	5000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
10.4	Egg-based desserts (e.g., custard)	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	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	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	600 mg/kg	Note 13	6
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
12.3	Vinegars	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
12.4	Mustards	1500 mg/kg	Note 13	6
12.5	Soups and broths	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
12.6	Sauces and like products	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	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	1500 mg/kg	Note 13	6
13.3	Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes, including those for infants and young children	1500 mg/kg	Notes 13 & 83	6
13.4	Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction	1500 mg/kg	Note 13	6
13.5	Dietetic foods (e.g., supplementary foods for dietary use) excluding products of food categories 13.1 - 13.4	2000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
14.1.1.2	Table waters and soda waters	200 mg/kg	Note 13	6
14.1.2.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit juice	2100 mg/kg	Note 13	6
14.1.2.2	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) vegetable juice	2000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
14.1.2.3	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for fruit juice	2100 mg/kg	Note 13	6
14.1.2.4	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for vegetable juice	1400 mg/kg	Note 13	6
14.1.3.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit nectar	2000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
14.1.3.2	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) vegetable nectar	2000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
14.1.3.3	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for fruit nectar	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
14.1.3.4	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for vegetable nectar	500 mg/kg	Note 13	6
14.1.3.4	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for vegetable nectar	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
14.1.4	Water-based flavoured drinks, including “sport” or “electrolyte” drinks and particulated drinks	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
14.1.5	Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa	600 mg/kg	Note 13	6
14.2.1	Beer and malt beverages	200 mg/kg	Notes 13, 84 & 85	6
14.2.1	Beer and malt beverages	1000 mg/kg	Notes 13 & 85	6
14.2.2	Cider and perry	200 mg/kg	Note 13	6
14.2.2	Cider and perry	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
14.2.3	Wines	800 mg/kg	Notes 13 & 85	6
14.2.3	Wines	1000 mg/kg	Notes 13 & 85	6
14.2.4	Fruit wine	800 mg/kg	Note 13	6
14.2.4	Fruit wine	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
14.2.5	Mead	200 mg/kg	Note 13	6
14.2.5	Mead	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
14.2.6	Spirituous beverages	400 mg/kg	Notes 13 & 85	6
14.2.6.2	Spirituous beverages containing less than 15% alcohol	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
15.1	Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes)	500 mg/kg	Note 13	6
15.1	Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes)	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6
16.0	Composite foods (e.g., casseroles, meat pies, mincemeat) - foods that could not be placed in categories 01 - 15	1000 mg/kg	Note 13	6