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Flours (06.2.1)

Description:
Flour is produced from the milling of grain, cereals, and tubers (e.g. cassava) and pith or soft core of palm tree. Includes flour pastes for bread and flour confectionery, flour for bread, pastries, noodles and pasta, and flour mixes (physical mixtures of flours from different cereal or grain sources, which are different from mixes for bakery goods (dry mixes containing flour and other ingredients, categories 07.1.6 (mixes for ordinary bakery wares) and 07.2.3 (mixes for fine bakery wares)). Examples include: durum wheat flour, self-rising flour, enriched flour, instantized flour, corn flour, corn meal, bran, farina, roasted soybean flour (kinako), konjac flour (devil’s tongue jelly powder, konnayaku-ko), maida (refined wheat flour) and sago flour.

This page provides information on the food additive provisions that are acceptable for use in foods conforming to the food category.

This food category is listed in the Annex to Table 3. Unless specifically indicated below, food additive provisions implied by Table 3 do not automatically apply to this category.

GSFA Provisions for Food Category 06.2.1
INS No. Food Additive or Group Max Level Notes Defined In
1100(iii) alpha-Amylase from Bacillus subtilis GMP 06.2
1100(vi) Carbohydrase from Bacillus licheniformis GMP 06.2
1204 Pullulan GMP 06.2.1
331(iii) Trisodium citrate GMP 06.2.1
STEAROYL LACTYLATES 5,000 mg/kg 06.2.1
472e Diacetyltartaric and fatty acid esters of glycerol 3,000 mg/kg 06.2
925 Chlorine 2,500 mg/kg 06.2.1
SODIUM ALUMINIUM PHOSPHATES 1,600 mg/kg 06.2.1
516 Calcium sulfate GMP 06.2.1
300 Ascorbic acid, L- 300 mg/kg 06.2.1
PHOSPHATES 2,500 mg/kg 06.2.1
928 Benzoyl peroxide 75 mg/kg 06.2.1
927a Azodicarbonamide 45 mg/kg 06.2.1
TARTRATES 5,000 mg/kg 06.2.1
SULFITES 200 mg/kg 06.2.1
322(i) Lecithin GMP 06.2.1
TOCOPHEROLS 5,000 mg/kg 06.2.1
504(i) Magnesium carbonate 1,500 mg/kg 06.2.1
1101(i) Protease from Aspergillus orizae var. GMP 06.2.1
301 Sodium ascorbate 300 mg/kg 06.2.1
1100(i) alpha-Amylase from Aspergillus oryzae var. GMP 06.2
1205 Methacrylate copolymer, basic (BMC) GMP 06.2.1

Items in uppercase (e.g. PHOSPHATES) refer to food additive groups.


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