Riboflavin from Ashbya gossypii — Food Additive Index

Where it is and isn’t permitted

Status of Riboflavin from Ashbya gossypii by jurisdiction. Every jurisdiction this site covers is listed, including those where the substance does not appear.
Jurisdiction	Status	Scope and limits	Citation
United StatesFood and Drug Administration	Not listedDoes not appear on this jurisdiction’s permitted list. That is not the same as being prohibited.
Codex AlimentariusCodex Alimentarius Commission / JECFA	Permitted, with conditions	13 food categories no numerical limit (good manufacturing practice) Show every food category 04.1.1.2 Surface-treated fresh fruit — GMP 04.2.1.2 Surface-treated fresh vegetables, (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweeds and nuts and seeds — GMP 04.2.2.7 Fermented vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera) and seaweed products, excluding fermented soybean products of food categories 06.8.6, 06.8.7, 12.9.1, — GMP 09.2.1 Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms — GMP 09.2.2 Frozen battered fish, fish fillets and fish products, including molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms — GMP 09.2.3 Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms — GMP 09.2.4.1 Cooked fish and fish products — GMP 09.2.4.2 Cooked molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms — GMP 09.2.4.3 Fried fish and fish products, including molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms — GMP 09.2.5 Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms — GMP 10.1 Fresh eggs — GMP 11.3 Sugar solutions and syrups, also (partially) inverted, including treacle and molasses, excluding products of food category 1.1.1.3 — GMP 11.4 Other sugars and syrups (e.g. xylose, maple syrup, sugar toppings) — GMP	CXS 192-1995 Table Three, INS 101(iv)and 13 further provisionsretrieved 2026-09-07

What it is made from

Produced by fermenting the fungus Ashbya gossypii, which accumulates riboflavin far beyond its own needs.

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Every name it appears under

2 recorded names. A label may use any of them.

INS number

101(iv)

Other names

Riboflavin from Ashbya gossypii

Hazard reference values

No reference value for this substance in the sources we hold.

Evidence and how bodies read it

Studies, and the differing conclusions regulators drew from them, are curated by hand rather than machine-read, and none has been written for this substance yet.

Sources for this page

gsfa retrieved 2026-09-07

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