SULPHITES

Sulphur Dioxide	INS: 220
Sodium Sulphite	INS: 221
Sodium Hydrogen Sulphite	INS: 222
Sodium Metabisulphite	INS: 223
Potassium Metabisuphite	INS: 224
Potassium Sulphite	INS: 225
Calcium Hydrogen Sulphite	INS: 227
Potassium Bisulphite	INS: 228
Sodium Thiosulphate	INS: 539

Function: Acidity Regulator, Adjuvant, Antioxidant, Bleaching Agent (Not for Flour), Flour Treatment Agent, Firming Agent, Preservative, Sequestrant, Stabilizer

Food Cat. No.	Food Category	Max Level	Comments	Step	Year
01.2.1.2	Fermented milks (plain), heat-treated after fermentation	50 mg/kg	Notes 12 & 44	6
01.6.4.1	Plain processed cheese	300 mg/kg	Note 44	6
01.7	Dairy-based desserts (e.g., ice cream, ice milk, pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt)	100 mg/kg	Note 44	6
03.0	Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet	100 mg/kg	Note 44	6
04.1.1.2	Surface-treated fresh fruit	30 mg/kg	Note 44	6
04.1.2.1	Frozen fruit	500 mg/kg	Note 44	6
04.1.2.2	Dried fruit	3000 mg/kg	Note 44	6
04.1.2.3	Fruit in vinegar, oil, or brine	350 mg/kg	Note 44	6
04.1.2.4	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit	350 mg/kg	Note 44	6
04.1.2.5	Jams, jellies and marmelades	3000 mg/kg	Note 44	6
04.1.2.6	Fruit-based spreads (e.g., chutney) excluding products of food category 04.1.2.5	500 mg/kg	Note 44	6
04.1.2.7	Candied fruit	350 mg/kg	Note 44	6
04.1.2.8	Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and coconut milk	3000 mg/kg	Note 44	6
04.1.2.9	Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based desserts	750 mg/kg	Note 44	6
04.1.2.10	Fermented fruit products	350 mg/kg	Note 44	6
04.1.2.11	Fruit fillings for pastries	350 mg/kg	Note 44	6
04.1.2.12	Cooked or fried fruit	GMP	Note 44	6
04.2.1.3	Peeled, cut or shredded vegetables, and nuts and seeds	500 mg/kg	Note 44	6
04.2.2.1	Frozen vegetables	750 mg/kg	Note 44	6
04.2.2.2	Dried vegetables, seaweeds, and nuts and seeds	2500 mg/kg	Notes 44 & 105	6
04.2.2.3	Vegetables and seaweeds in vinegar, oil, brine, or soy sauce	750 mg/kg	Note 44	6
04.2.2.4	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) or retort pouch vegetables	750 mg/kg	Note 44	6
04.2.2.5	Vegetable, and nut and seed purees and spreads (e.g., peanut butter)	2000 mg/kg	Note 44	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	800 mg/kg	Note 44	6
04.2.2.7	Fermented vegetable products	1000 mg/kg	Note 44	6
04.2.2.8	Cooked or fried vegetables and seaweeds	750 mg/kg	Note 44	6
05.1.1	Cocoa mixes (powders and syrups)	2000 mg/kg	Note 44	6
05.1.2	Cocoa-based spreads, including fillings	2000 mg/kg	Note 44	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	150 mg/kg	Note 44	6
05.1.4	Imitation chocolate, chocolate substitue products	2000 mg/kg	Note 44	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 44	6
05.3	Chewing gum	2000 mg/kg	Note 44	6
05.4	Decorations (e.g., for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit) and sweet sauces	150 mg/kg	Note 44	6
06.1	Whole, broken, or flaked grain, including rice	400 mg/kg	Note 44	6
06.2	Flours and starches	900 mg/kg	Note 44	6
06.4.2	Pre-cooked or dried pastas and noodles and like products	20 mg/kg	Note 44	6
07.1.1	Breads and rolls	100 mg/kg	Note 29	6
07.1.3	Other ordinary bakery products (e.g., bagels, pita, English muffins)	50 mg/kg	Note 44	6
07.1.4	Bread-type products, including bread stuffing and bread crumbs	500 mg/kg	Note 44	6
07.2	Fine bakery wares	300 mg/kg	Note 44	6
08.1.2	Fresh meat, poultry, and game, comminuted	450 mg/kg	Note 44	6
08.3	Processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	500 mg/kg	Note 44	6
08.4	Edible casings (e.g., sausage casings)	500 mg/kg	Note 44	6
09.1.2	Fresh mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	200 mg/kg	Note 44	6
09.2.1	Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	300 mg/kg	Note 44	6
09.2.4.2	Cooked mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	50 mg/kg	Note 44	6
09.2.5	Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	450 mg/kg	Note 44	6
09.4	Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	300 mg/kg	Note 44	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	500 mg/kg	Note 44	6
11.2	Other sugars and syrups (e.g., brown sugar, maple syrup)	40 mg/kg	Note 44	6
12.1	Salt	1000 mg/kg	Note 29	6
12.2	Herbs, spices, seasonings (including salt substitutes), and condiments (e.g., seasoning for instant noodles)	500 mg/kg	Note 44	6
12.3	Vinegars	200 mg/kg	Note 44	6
12.4	Mustards	250 mg/kg	Notes 44 & 106	6
12.5	Soups and broths	1000 mg/kg	Note 44	6
12.6	Sauces and like products	300 mg/kg	Note 44	6
12.9	Protein products	500 mg/kg	Note 44	6
14.1.2.1	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit juice	600 mg/kg	Note 44	6
14.1.2.2	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) vegetable juice	500 mg/kg	Note 44	6
14.1.2.3	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for fruit juice	500 mg/kg	Notes 44 & 107	6
14.1.2.4	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for vegetable juice	70 mg/kg	Note 44	6
14.1.3.3	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for fruit nectar	70 mg/kg	Note 44	6
14.1.3.4	Concentrate (liquid or solid) for vegetable nectar	70 mg/kg	Note 44	6
14.1.4.1	Carbonated drinks	115 mg/kg	Note 44	6
14.1.4.2	Non-carbonated, including punches and ades	250 mg/kg	Note 44	6
14.1.4.3	Concentrates (liquid or solid) for drinks	350 mg/kg	Note 44	6
14.2	Alcoholic beverages, including alcohol-free and low-alcoholic counterparts	350 mg/kg	Notes 44 & 103	6
15.1	Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes)	200 mg/kg	Note 44	6
15.2	Processed nuts, including covered nuts and nut mixtures (with e.g., dried fruit)	500 mg/kg	Note 44	6
16.0	Composite foods (e.g., casseroles, meat pies, mincemeat) - foods that could not be placed in categories 01 - 15	500 mg/kg	Note 44	6