PECTINS (AMIDATED AND NON-AMIDATED)

Pectins (Amidated and Non-Amidated)

INS: 440

Function: Emulsifier, Stabilizer, Thickener

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.1.1	Milk and buttermilk	GMP		6
01.2.1.1	Fermented milks (plain), not heat-treated after fermentation	GMP		6
01.2.1.2	Fermented milks (plain), heat-treated after fermentation	10000 mg/kg		6
01.2.2	Renneted milk	GMP		6
01.4.1	Pasteurized cream	GMP		6
01.4.2	Sterilized, UHT, whipping or whipped, and reduced fat creams	5000 mg/kg		6
02.2.1.1	Butter and concentrated butter	GMP	Note 52	6
04.1.1.2	Surface-treated fresh fruit	GMP		6
04.1.1.3	Peeled or cut fresh fruit	GMP		6
04.2.1.2	Surface-treated fresh vegetables, and nuts and seeds	GMP		6
04.2.1.3	Peeled, cut or shredded vegetables, and nuts and seeds	GMP		6
04.2.2.1	Frozen vegetables	20000 mg/kg		6
06.4.2	Pre-cooked or dried pastas and noodles and like products	GMP	Note 54	6
09.2.1	Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	5000 mg/kg	Note 61	6
09.2.2	Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	GMP	Note 41	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
13.1	Infant formulae and follow-on formulae	10000 mg/kg		6
13.2	Weaning foods for infants and growing children	20000 mg/kg		6
14.1.5	Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa	GMP		6