GSFA Online Food Additive Details for Canthaxanthin

GSFA Online

Updated up to the 42^nd Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (2019)

Food Additive Details

Canthaxanthin (161g)

Synonym(s)

CI (1975) No 40850
CI Food Orange 8

Functional Classes

Colour

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GSFA Provisions for Canthaxanthin

Number	Food Category	Max Level	Notes
01.6.1	Unripened cheese	15 mg/kg	Note 201
15.1	Snacks - potato, cereal, flour or starch based (from roots and tubers, pulses and legumes)	45 mg/kg
09.2.5	Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	15 mg/kg	Note XS311 Note XS189 Note XS244 Note XS222 Note XS236 Note 22 Note XS167
12.2.2	Seasonings and condiments	20 mg/kg
12.6	Sauces and like products	30 mg/kg	Note XS302
09.3.3	Salmon substitutes, caviar, and other fish roe products	15 mg/kg	Note XS291
01.6.2	Ripened cheese	15 mg/kg	Note XS274 Note XS272 Note XS267 Note 201 Note XS269 Note XS276 Note XS263 Note XS265 Note XS264 Note XS271 Note XS268 Note XS266 Note XS270 Note XS277
06.4.3	Pre-cooked pastas and noodles and like products	15 mg/kg	Note XS249 Note 153
11.4	Other sugars and syrups (e.g. xylose, maple syrup, sugar toppings)	15 mg/kg
14.1.4.2	Non-carbonated water-based flavoured drinks, including punches and ades	5 mg/kg
12.5.2	Mixes for soups and broths	30 mg/kg	Note XS117
04.1.2.5	Jams, jellies, marmelades	200 mg/kg	Note 5
09.4	Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	15 mg/kg	Note XS119 Note XS90 Note XS3 Note XS94 Note XS37 Note XS70
04.1.2.6	Fruit-based spreads (e.g. chutney) excluding products of food category 04.1.2.5	15 mg/kg
04.1.2.9	Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based desserts	15 mg/kg
04.1.2.11	Fruit fillings for pastries	15 mg/kg
09.2.1	Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	35 mg/kg	Note XS36 Note XS292 Note XS95 Note XS92 Note XS165 Note XS315 Note 95 Note XS312 Note XS190 Note XS191
10.1	Fresh eggs	GMP	Note 4
01.6.4.2	Flavoured processed cheese, including containing fruit, vegetables, meat, etc.	15 mg/kg
01.1.4	Flavoured fluid milk drinks	15 mg/kg	Note 170 Note 52
02.4	Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of food category 01.7	15 mg/kg
02.2.2	Fat spreads, dairy fat spreads and blended spreads	15 mg/kg	Note 215 Note 214
02.3	Fat emulsions mainly of type oil-in-water, including mixed and/or flavoured products based on fat emulsions	15 mg/kg
10.4	Egg-based desserts (e.g. custard)	15 mg/kg
04.2.2.2	Dried vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweeds, and nuts and seeds	10 mg/kg
06.4.2	Dried pastas and noodles and like products	15 mg/kg	Note 211
14.2.6	Distilled spirituous beverages containing more than 15% alcohol	5 mg/kg
01.7	Dairy-based desserts (e.g. pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt)	15 mg/kg	Note 170
08.3.1.1	Cured (including salted) non-heat treated processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products	100 mg/kg	Note 118 Note 4 Note 16
14.1.4.3	Concentrates (liquid or solid) for water-based flavoured drinks	5 mg/kg	Note 127
01.6.5	Cheese analogues	15 mg/kg
06.5	Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g. rice pudding, tapioca pudding)	15 mg/kg
14.1.4.1	Carbonated water-based flavoured drinks	5 mg/kg
14.2.7	Aromatized alcoholic beverages (e.g. beer, wine and spirituous cooler-type beverages, low alcoholic refreshers)	5 mg/kg

Note: Unless otherwise specified, food additive provisions apply to the food category indicated (e.g. Dairy), as well as to all subcategories of that category (e.g. Cheese, Ripened Cheese, etc.).

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