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Annex V List of the food colours referred to in Article 24 for which the labelling of foods shall include additional information

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Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

F1With the exception of:

  1. (a)

    foods where the colour(s) has been used for the purposes of health or other marking on meat products or for stamping or decorative colouring on eggshells; and

  2. (b)

    beverages containing more than 1,2 % by volume of alcohol.

Foods containing one or more of the following food coloursInformation
Sunset yellow (E 110)f1 ‘name or E number of the colour(s)’: may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children.
Quinoline yellow (E 104)
Carmoisine (E 122)
Allura red (E 129)
Tartrazine (E 102)
Ponceau 4R (E 124)

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) No 238/2010 of 22 March 2010 amending Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to the labelling requirement for beverages with more than 1,2 % by volume of alcohol and containing certain food colours (Text with EEA relevance).

Footnotes

f1

With the exception of:

  1. (a)

    foods where the colour(s) has been used for the purposes of health or other marking on meat products or for stamping or decorative colouring on eggshells; and

  2. (b)

    beverages containing more than 1,2 % by volume of alcohol.