{ "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/miscellaneous-food-additives-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/schedule-2/part-B", "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/miscellaneous-food-additives-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/schedule-2/part-B.json", "legislation": "nisr/1996/50", "legislation_title": "Miscellaneous Food Additives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996", "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/miscellaneous-food-additives-regulations-northern-ireland-1996", "path": "schedule/2/part/B", "kind": "part", "number": "B", "heading": "Sulphur dioxide and sulphites", "text": "EC No.\nName\nNotes\n1. Maximum levels are expressed as SO2 in mg/kg or mg/l as appropriate and relate to the total quantity, available from all sources.\n2. An SO2 content of not more than 10 mg/kg or 10 mg/l is not considered to be present.\nE 220\nSulphur dioxide\nE 221\nSodium sulphite\nE 222\nSodium hydrogen sulphite\nE 223\nSodium metabisulphite\nE 224\nPotassium metabisulphite\nE 226\nCalcium sulphite\nE 227\nCalcium hydrogen sulphite\nE 228\nPotassium hydrogen sulphite\nFood\nMaximum level (mg/kg or mg/l as appropriate) expressed as SO2\nBurger meat with a minimum vegetable and/or cereal content of 4%\n450\nBreakfast sausages Longaniza fresca and Butifarra fresca\n450 450\nDried salted fish of the ‘Gadidae' species\n200\nCruscaceans and cephalopods\n— fresh, frozen and deep-frozen crustaceans, penaeidae solenceridae, aristeidae family:\n150\n— up to 80 units\n150\n— between 80 and 120 units\n200\n— over 120 units\n300\n— cooked\n50\nDry biscuit\n50\nStarches (excluding starches for weaning foods, follow-on furmulae and infant formulae)\n50\nSago\n30\nPearl barley\n30\nDehydrated granulated potatoes\n400\nCereal- and potato-based snacks\n50\nPeeled potatoes\n50\nProcessed potatoes (including frozen and deep-frozen potatoes)\n100\nPotato dough\n100\nWhite vegetables, dried\n400\nWhite vegetables, processed (including frozen and deep-frozen white vegetables)\n50\nDried ginger\n150\nDried tomatoes\n200\nHorseradish pulp\n800\nOnion, garlic and shallot pulp\n300\nVegetables and fruits in vinegar, oil or brine (except olives and golden peppers in brine)\n100\nGolden peppers in brine\n500\nProcessed mushrooms (including frozen mushrooms)\n50\nDried mushrooms\n100\nDried fruits\n— apricots, peaches, grapes, prunes and figs\n2000\n— bananas\n1000\n— apples and pears\n600\n— other (including nuts in shell)\n500\nDried coconut\n50\nCandied, crystallised or glacé fruit, vegetables, angelica and citcus peel\n100\nJam, jelly and marmalade as defined in Directive 79/693/EEC (except extra jam and extra jelly) and other similar fruit spreads including low-calorie products\n50\nJams, jellies and marmalades made with sulphited fruit\n100\nFruit-based pie fillings\n100\nCitrus-juice-based seasonings\n200\nConcentrated grape juice for home wine-making\n2000\nMostarda di frutta\n100\nJellying fruit extract, liquid pectin for sale to the final consumer\n800\nBottled whiteheart cherries, rehydrated dried fruit and lychees\n100\nBottled, sliced lemon\n250\nSugars as defined in Directive 73/437/EEC except glucose syrup, whether or not dehydrated\n15\nGlucose syrup, whether or not dehydrated\n20\nTreacle and molasses\n70\nOther sugars\n40\nToppings (syrups for pancakes, flavoured syrups for milkshakes and ice cream; similar products)\n40\nOrange, grapefruit, apple and pineapple juice for bulk dispensing in catering establishments\n50\nLime and lemon juice\n350\nConcentrates based on fruit juice and containing not less than 2.5% barley (barley water)\n350\nOther concentrates based on fruit juice or comminuted fruit; capilé groselha\n250\nNon-alcoholic flavoured drinks containing fruit juice\n20 (carry-over from concentrates only)\nNon-alcoholic flavoured drinks containing at least 235 g/l glucose syrup\n50\nGrape juice, unfermented, for sacramental use\n70\nGlucose-syrup-based confectionery\n50 (carry-over from the glucose syrup only)\nBeer including low-alcohol and alcohol-free beer\n20\nBeer with a second fermentation in the cask\n50\nWines\nin accordance with Regulations (EEC) No. 822/87, (EEC) No. 4252/88, (EEC) No. 2332/92 and (EEC) No. 1873/84 and their implementing regulations; (pro memoria) in accordance with Regulation (EEC) No. 1873/84 authorising the offer or disposal for direct human consumption of certain imported wines which may have undergone oenological processes not provided for in Regulation (EEC) No. 337/79\nAlcohol-free wine\n200\nMade wine\n260\nCider, perry, fruit wine, sparkling fruit wine (including alcohol-free products)\n200\nMead\n200\nFermentation vinegar\n170\nMustard, excluding Dijon mustard Dijon mustard\n250 500\nGelatin\n50\nVegetable- and cereal-protein-based meat, fish and crustacean analogues\n200", "extent": "N.I.", "status": "prospective", "version": "current", "annotations": [ { "type": "I", "label": "I1", "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. B in operation at 22.4.1996, see reg. 1" }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f1", "text": "In edible parts" }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f2", "text": "O.J. No. L205, 13.8.79, p. 5" }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f3", "text": "O.J. No. L356, 27.12.73, p. 71" }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f4", "text": "O.J. No. L373, 31.12.88, p. 59" }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f5", "text": "O.J. No. L231, 13.8.92, p. 1" }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f6", "text": "O.J. No. L176, 3.7.84, p. 6" }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f7", "text": "O.J. 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Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives." }