GSFA Online Food Additive Details for Aspartame-acesulfame salt

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

Food Additive Details

Aspartame-acesulfame salt (962)

Functional Classes

Sweetener

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GSFA Provisions for Aspartame-acesulfame salt

Number	Food Category	Max Level	Notes
04.2.2.3	Vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), and seaweeds in vinegar, oil, brine, or soybean sauce	200 mg/kg	Note 161 Note 113
04.2.2.6	Vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweed, and nut and seed pulps and preparations (e.g. vegetable desserts and sauces, candied vegetables) other than food category 04.2.2.5	350 mg/kg	Note 161 Note 113
11.6	Table-top sweeteners, including those containing high-intensity sweeteners	GMP
09.3	Semi-preserved fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	200 mg/kg	Note 113 Note XS291
04.1.2.5	Jams, jellies, marmelades	1,000 mg/kg	Note 119 Note 477
05.1.5	Imitation chocolate, chocolate substitute products	500 mg/kg	Note 161 Note 113
09.4	Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms	200 mg/kg	Note XS94 Note XS70 Note 113 Note XS37 Note XS119 Note XS90 Note XS3
04.1.2.9	Fruit-based desserts, including fruit-flavoured water-based desserts	350 mg/kg	Note 113 Note 477
04.1.2.8	Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and coconut milk	350 mg/kg	Note 113 Note 477
13.6	Food supplements	2,000 mg/kg	Note 113
01.1.4	Flavoured fluid milk drinks	350 mg/kg	Note 113 Note 477
07.2	Fine bakery wares (sweet, salty, savoury) and mixes	1,000 mg/kg	Note 113 Note 77
02.4	Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of food category 01.7	350 mg/kg	Note 161 Note 113
13.4	Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction	450 mg/kg	Note 113
13.3	Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes (excluding products of food category 13.1)	500 mg/kg	Note 113
13.5	Dietetic foods (e.g. supplementary foods for dietary use) excluding products of food categories 13.1 - 13.4 and 13.6	450 mg/kg	Note 113
01.7	Dairy-based desserts (e.g. pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt)	350 mg/kg	Note 113 Note 477
04.1.2.4	Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit	350 mg/kg	Note XS319 Note 161 Note 113
14.2.7	Aromatized alcoholic beverages (e.g. beer, wine and spirituous cooler-type beverages, low alcoholic refreshers)	350 mg/kg	Note 113

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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