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Schedule 4 Colours permitted for use in certain foods onlyI1

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Column 1Column 2Column 3
Permitted colourFoodMaximum level
E 123 AmaranthAmericano100 mg/l (but see the entry for Americano in Schedule 3)
Aperitif wines, spirit drinks including products with less than 15% alcohol by volume30 mg/l
Bitter soda, bitter vino as mentioned in Regulation (EEC) No. 1601/91100 mg/l (but see the entry for bitter soda, bitter vino in Schedule 3)
Fish roe30 mg/kg
E 127 ErythrosineCocktail cherries and candied cherries200 mg/kg
Bigarreaux cherries in syrup and in cocktails150 mg/kg
E 128 Red 2G

Breakfast sausages with a minimum cereal content of 6%

Burger meat with a minimum vegetable and/or cereal content of 4%

} 20 mg/kg
E 154 Brown FKKippers20 mg/kg
E 161g CanthaxanthinSaucisses de Strasbourg15 mg/kg
E 173 AluminiumExternal coating of sugar confectionery for the decoration of cakes and pastriesquantum satis
E 174 SilverExternal coating of confectioneryquantum satis
Decoration of chocolatesquantum satis
Liqueursquantun satis
E 175 GoldExternal coating of confectioneryquantum satis
Decoration of chocolatesquantum satis
Liqueursquantum satis
E 180 Litholrubine BKEdible cheese rindquantum satis
E 160b Annatto, Bixin, NorbixinMargarine, minarine, other fat emulsions, and fats essentially free from water10 mg/kg
Decorations and coatings20 mg/kg
Fine bakery wares10 mg/kg
Edible ices20 mg/kg
Liqueurs, including fortified beverages with less than 15% alcohol by volume10 mg/l
Flavoured processed cheese15 mg/kg
Ripened Orange, Yellow and broken-white cheese, Unflavoured processed cheese15 mg/kg
Desserts10 mg/kg
“Snacks”: dry, savoury potato, cereal or starch-based snack products:
— Extruded or expanded savoury snack products20 mg/kg
— Other savoury snack products and savoury coated nuts10 mg/kg
Smoked fish10 mg/kg
Edible cheese rind and edible casings20 mg/kg
Red Leicester cheese50 mg/kg
Mimolette cheese35 mg/kg
Extruded, puffed and/or fruit-flavoured breakfast cereals25 mg/kg

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Sch. 4 in operation at 22.4.1996, see reg. 1