CANTHAXANTHIN

Canthaxanthin

INS: 161g

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
01.6	Cheese	GMP		6
01.7	Dairy-based desserts (e.g., ice cream, ice milk, pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt)	GMP		6
02.0	Fats and oils, and fat emulsions (type water-in-oil)	GMP		6
03.0	Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet	GMP		6
04.1.2.4	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit	GMP		6
04.1.2.5	Jams, jellies and marmelades	200 mg/kg		6
04.1.2.6	Fruit-based spreads (e.g., chutney) excluding products of food category 04.1.2.5	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
04.1.2.11	Fruit fillings for pastries	GMP		6
04.2.2.2	Dried vegetables, seaweeds, and nuts and seeds	8.2 mg/kg		6
04.2.2.3	Vegetables and seaweeds in vinegar, oil, brine, or soy sauce	GMP		6
05.1	Cocoa products and chocolate products including imitations and chocolate substitutes	GMP		6
05.2	Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougat, etc. other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4	50 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	GMP		6
06.3	Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats	35 mg/kg		6
06.4.2	Pre-cooked or dried pastas and noodles and like products	GMP		6
06.5	Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g., rice pudding, tapioca pudding)	GMP		6
06.6	Batters (e.g., for breading ro batters for fish or poultry)	GMP		6
07.0	Bakery wares	GMP		6
08.1.1	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, whole pieces or cuts	100 mg/kg		6
08.1.2	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, comminuted	1000 mg/kg	Note 94	6
08.3.1.1	Cured (including salted) non-heat treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	1000 mg/kg		6
08.3.2	Heat-treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	15 mg/kg		6
08.4	Edible casings (e.g., sausage casings)	GMP		6
09.2.1	Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		6
09.2.4.1	Cooked fish and fish products	200 mg/kg		6
09.2.4.3	Fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		6
09.2.5	Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP		6
09.3.3	Salmon substitutes, caviar, and other fish roe products	GMP		6
09.4	Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	100 mg/kg		6
10.1	Fresh eggs	GMP	Notes 3 & 4	6
10.4	Egg-based desserts (e.g., custard)	GMP		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	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		6
12.5.1	Ready-to-eat soups and broths, including canned, bottled, and frozen	30 mg/kg		6
12.5.2	Mixes for soups and broths	100 mg/kg		6
12.6	Sauces and like products	100 mg/kg		6
12.9	Protein products	100 mg/kg		6
14.1.2.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit juice	5 mg/kg		6
14.1.3.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit nectar	5 mg/kg		6
14.1.4.1	Carbonated drinks	GMP		6
14.1.4.2	Non-carbonated, including punches and ades	5 mg/kg		6
14.1.4.3	Concentrates (liquid or solid) for drinks	100 mg/kg		6
14.2.1	Beer and malt beverages	5 mg/kg		6
14.2.3	Wines	5 mg/kg		6
14.2.6	Spirituous beverages	5 mg/kg		6
15.1	Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes)	GMP		6
16.0	Composite foods (e.g., casseroles, meat pies, mincemeat) - foods that could not be placed in categories 01 - 15	GMP	Note 2	6