SORBATES

Sorbic Acid	INS: 200
Sodium Sorbate	INS: 201
Potassium Sorbate	INS: 202
Calcium Sorbate	INS: 203

Function: Antioxidant, Preservative, Stabilizer

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.1.1	Milk and buttermilk	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
01.1.2	Dairy-based drinks, flavoured and/or fermented (e.g., chocolate milk, cocoa, eggnog, drinking yoghurt, whey-based drinks)	300 mg/kg	Note 42	6
01.2.1	Fermented milks (plain)	300 mg/kg	Note 42	6
01.2.2	Renneted milk	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
01.3.2	Beverage whiteners	200 mg/kg	Note 42	6
01.6	Cheese	3000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
01.7	Dairy-based desserts (e.g., ice cream, ice milk, pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt)	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
02.1.1	Butter oil, anhydrous milkfat, ghee	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
02.2.1	Emulsions containing at least 80% fat	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
02.2.2	Emulsions containing less than 80% fat (e.g., minarine)	2000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
02.3	Fat emulsions other than food category 02.2, including mixed and/or flavoured products based on fat emulsions	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
02.4	Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of food category 01.7	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
03.0	Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
04.1.1	Fresh fruit	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
04.1.2.1	Frozen fruit	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
04.1.2.2	Dried fruit	2000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
04.1.2.3	Fruit in vinegar, oil, or brine	2000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
04.1.2.4	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
04.1.2.5	Jams, jellies and marmelades	1500 mg/kg	Note 42	6
04.1.2.6	Fruit-based spreads (e.g., chutney) excluding products of food category 04.1.2.5	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
04.1.2.7	Candied fruit	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
04.1.2.8	Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and coconut milk	1500 mg/kg	Note 42	6
04.1.2.9	Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based desserts	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
04.1.2.10	Fermented fruit products	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
04.1.2.11	Fruit fillings for pastries	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
04.1.2.12	Cooked or fried fruit	1200 mg/kg	Note 42	6
04.2.2.3	Vegetables and seaweeds in vinegar, oil, brine, or soy sauce	2000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
04.2.2.4	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) or retort pouch vegetables	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
04.2.2.5	Vegetable, and nut and seed purees and spreads (e.g., peanut butter)	2000 mg/kg	Note 42	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	2000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
04.2.2.7	Fermented vegetable products	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
04.2.2.8	Cooked or fried vegetables and seaweeds	2000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
05.1.1	Cocoa mixes (powders and syrups)	1500 mg/kg	Note 42	6
05.1.2	Cocoa-based spreads, including fillings	1500 mg/kg	Note 42	6
05.1.3	Cocoa and chocolate products (e.g., milk chocolate bar, chocolate flakes, white chocolate) other than food categories 05.1.1, 05.1.2 and 05.1.4	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
05.1.4	Imitation chocolate, chocolate substitue products	1500 mg/kg	Note 42	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 42	6
05.3	Chewing gum	1500 mg/kg	Note 42	6
05.4	Decorations (e.g., for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) and sweet sauces	1500 mg/kg	Note 42	6
06.2	Flours and starches	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
06.4.2	Pre-cooked or dried pastas and noodles and like products	2000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
06.5	Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g., rice pudding, tapioca pudding)	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
06.6	Batters (e.g., for breading ro batters for fish or poultry)	2000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
07.0	Bakery wares	2000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
08.2	Processed meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or cuts	2000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
08.3	Processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	2000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
08.4	Edible casings (e.g., sausage casings)	GMP	Note 42	6
09.2.1	Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	2000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
09.2.2	Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	2000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
09.2.3	Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	2000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
09.2.4.1	Cooked fish and fish products	2000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
09.2.4.2	Cooked mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	2000 mg/kg	Notes 42 & 82	6
09.2.5	Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	2000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
09.3	Semi-preserved fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	2000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
10.2.1	Liquid egg products	5000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
10.2.2	Frozen egg products	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
10.2.3	Dried and/or heat coagulated egg products	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
10.4	Egg-based desserts (e.g., custard)	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	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 42	6
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
11.4	Table-top sweeteners, including those containing high-intensity sweeteners	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
12.3	Vinegars	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
12.4	Mustards	1500 mg/kg	Note 42	6
12.5	Soups and broths	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
12.6	Sauces and like products	2000 mg/kg	Note 42	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 42	6
13.3	Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes, including those for infants and young children	1500 mg/kg	Note 42	6
13.4	Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction	1500 mg/kg	Note 42	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 42	6
13.6	Food supplements	2000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
14.1.1.2	Table waters and soda waters	200 mg/kg	Note 42	6
14.1.2.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit juice	2100 mg/kg	Note 42	6
14.1.2.2	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) vegetable juice	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
14.1.2.3	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for fruit juice	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
14.1.2.4	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for vegetable juice	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
14.1.3.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit nectar	2000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
14.1.3.2	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) vegetable nectar	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
14.1.3.3	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for fruit nectar	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
14.1.3.4	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for vegetable nectar	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
14.1.4.1	Carbonated drinks	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
14.1.4.2	Non-carbonated, including punches and ades	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
14.1.4.3	Concentrates (liquid or solid) for drinks	1500 mg/kg	Note 42	6
14.1.5	Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
14.2.1	Beer and malt beverages	500 mg/kg	Note 42	6
14.2.2	Cider and perry	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
14.2.3	Wines	2000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
14.2.4	Fruit wine	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
14.2.5	Mead	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
14.2.6	Spirituous beverages	600 mg/kg	Note 42	6
15.1	Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes)	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	6
15.2	Processed nuts, including covered nuts and nut mixtures (with e.g., dried fruit)	1000 mg/kg	Note 42	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 42	6