HYDROXYBENZOATES, p-

Ethyl p-Hydroxybenzoate	INS: 214
Methyl p-Hydroxybenzoate	INS: 218
Propyl p-Hydroxybenzoate INS: 216

Function: Preservative

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.6.2	Ripened cheese	500 mg/kg	Note 27	6
01.6.4	Processed cheese	300 mg/kg	Note 27	6
01.6.5	Cheese analogues	500 mg/kg	Note 27	6
01.7	Dairy-based desserts (e.g., ice cream, ice milk, pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt)	120 mg/kg	Note 27	6
02.2.1.2	Margarine and similar products (e.g., butter-margarine blends)	1000 mg/kg	Note 27	6
02.2.2	Emulsions containing less than 80% fat (e.g., minarine)	300 mg/kg	Note 27	6
02.3	Fat emulsions other than food category 02.2, including mixed and/or flavoured products based on fat emulsions	300 mg/kg	Note 27	6
03.0	Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet	1000 mg/kg	Note 27	6
04.1.1.2	Surface-treated fresh fruit	12 mg/kg	Note 27	6
04.1.1.3	Peeled or cut fresh fruit	12 mg/kg	Note 27	6
04.1.2.1	Frozen fruit	800 mg/kg	Note 27	6
04.1.2.2	Dried fruit	800 mg/kg	Note 27	6
04.1.2.3	Fruit in vinegar, oil, or brine	800 mg/kg	Note 27	6
04.1.2.4	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit	800 mg/kg	Note 27	6
04.1.2.5	Jams, jellies and marmelades	1000 mg/kg	Note 27	6
04.1.2.6	Fruit-based spreads (e.g., chutney) excluding products of food category 04.1.2.5	1000 mg/kg	Note 27	6
04.1.2.7	Candied fruit	1000 mg/kg	Note 27	6
04.1.2.8	Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and coconut milk	800 mg/kg	Note 27	6
04.1.2.9	Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based desserts	800 mg/kg	Note 27	6
04.1.2.10	Fermented fruit products	800 mg/kg	Note 27	6
04.1.2.11	Fruit fillings for pastries	800 mg/kg	Note 27	6
04.2.1.2	Surface-treated fresh vegetables, and nuts and seeds	12 mg/kg	Note 27	6
04.2.1.3	Peeled, cut or shredded vegetables, and nuts and seeds	12 mg/kg	Note 27	6
04.2.2.3	Vegetables and seaweeds in vinegar, oil, brine, or soy sauce	1000 mg/kg	Note 27	6
04.2.2.4	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) or retort pouch vegetables	300 mg/kg	Note 27	6
04.2.2.5	Vegetable, and nut and seed purees and spreads (e.g., peanut butter)	1000 mg/kg	Note 27	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	1000 mg/kg	Note 27	6
04.2.2.7	Fermented vegetable products	300 mg/kg	Note 27	6
05.1.1	Cocoa mixes (powders and syrups)	700 mg/kg	Note 27	6
05.1.2	Cocoa-based spreads, including fillings	300 mg/kg	Note 27	6
05.1.4	Imitation chocolate, chocolate substitue products	300 mg/kg	Note 27	6
05.2	Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougat, etc. other than food categories 05.1, 05.3 and 05.4	2000 mg/kg	Note 27	6
05.3	Chewing gum	300 mg/kg	Note 27	6
05.4	Decorations (e.g., for fine bakery wares), toppings (non- fruit) and sweet sauces	300 mg/kg	Note 27	6
07.2	Fine bakery wares	300 mg/kg	Note 27	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 & 27	6
08.3.1.2	Cured (including salted) and dried non-heat treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	GMP	Notes 3 & 27	6
08.4	Edible casings (e.g., sausage casings)	36 mg/kg	Note 27	6
09.3	Semi-preserved fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	1000 mg/kg	Note 27	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	100 mg/kg	Note 27	6
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	100 mg/kg	Note 27	6
12.3	Vinegars	100 mg/kg	Note 27	6
12.4	Mustards	300 mg/kg	Note 27	6
12.5	Soups and broths	300 mg/kg	Note 27	6
12.6	Sauces and like products	1000 mg/kg	Note 27	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	300 mg/kg	Note 27	6
14.1.2	Fruit and vegetable juices	1000 mg/kg	Note 27	6
14.1.3.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit nectar	100 mg/kg	Note 27	6
14.1.3.2	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) vegetable nectar	100 mg/kg	Note 27	6
14.1.3.3	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for fruit nectar	200 mg/kg	Note 27	6
14.1.3.4	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for vegetable nectar	200 mg/kg	Note 27	6
14.1.4	Water-based flavoured drinks, including “sport” or “electrolyte” drinks and particulated drinks	1000 mg/kg	Note 27	6
14.1.5	Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa	450 mg/kg	Note 27	6
14.2.1	Beer and malt beverages	1000 mg/kg	Notes 27 & 96	6
14.2.2	Cider and perry	200 mg/kg	Note 27	6
14.2.3	Wines	1000 mg/kg	Notes 27 & 96	6
14.2.4	Fruit wine	200 mg/kg	Note 27	6
14.2.5	Mead	200 mg/kg	Note 27	6
14.2.6.2	Spirituous beverages containing less than 15% alcohol	1000 mg/kg	Notes 27 & 96	6
15.1	Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes)	300 mg/kg	Note 27	6
15.2	Processed nuts, including covered nuts and nut mixtures (with e.g., dried fruit)	300 mg/kg	Note 27	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 27	6