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This page is generated from the provenance table in the database, not maintained by hand, so it cannot drift from what the site actually contains. Every fact on every page carries a reference to one of these and the date it was retrieved.
anz Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code, Schedule 15 (compilation No. 16)
- Publisher
- Food Standards Australia New Zealand; Federal Register of Legislation
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-17
Based on content from the Federal Register of Legislation at 17 October 2026. For the latest information on Australian Government law please go to https://www.legislation.gov.au. Schedule 15 F2026C00407 (in force from 2026-04-30); Schedule 16 F2025C00968; Schedule 8 F2025C00967. Positive list: a substance may be used as a food additive only where Schedule 15 permits it (Standard 1.1.1—10(6)(a), 1.3.1—3(1)). A food class also takes the permissions listed under its higher-level headings (S15—2); rows are stored where listed, not copied down the tree.
ca Health Canada Lists of Permitted Food Additives
- Publisher
- Health Canada
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-17
Positive list: Food and Drug Regulations, C.R.C., c. 870, B.16.002–B.16.003 (as amended by SOR/2024-244), which incorporate these lists by reference. Lists 1–4 and 6–15 ingested; List 5 (enzymes) excluded. Published dates: List 1 2025-10-20; List 2 2024-12-18; List 3 2025-10-20; List 4 2025-10-20; List 6 2025-10-20; List 7 2024-12-18; List 8 2026-02-04; List 9 2024-12-18; List 10 2025-10-20; List 11 2025-10-20; List 12 2024-12-18; List 13 2025-10-20; List 14 2024-12-18; List 15 2025-10-20.
ecfr Electronic Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21
- Publisher
- U.S. Government Publishing Office / National Archives
- Licence
- Public domain
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-17
Title 21 as amended through 2026-10-14. Parts: 73, 74, 82, 172, 173, 182, 184, 189.
editorial Editorial content
- Publisher
- Food Additive Index
- Licence
- Site content
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-18
Hand-written summaries, derivation descriptions and curated evidence. Each cites the primary document it draws on; this row records that the text itself is ours.
eu EU food additives (Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008)
- Publisher
- European Commission
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-18
Commission Decision 2011/833/EU on the reuse of Commission documents. Positive list for food additives: an additive may be used in a food only where Annex II lists it for that food. Flavourings, enzymes, processing aids and nutrients are regulated separately and do not appear on it.
eu-names EU additive names in 23 official languages (consolidated 02008R1333-20260818 and 02012R0231-20260818)
- Publisher
- European Union (EUR-Lex)
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-19
Source: EUR-Lex, consolidated texts 02008R1333-20260818 (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, Annex II, Part B) and 02012R0231-20260818 (Commission Regulation (EU) No 231/2012), © European Union, CC BY 4.0, in 23 official languages; names extracted unchanged. Consolidated texts are documentation; only the Official Journal is authentic.
euspecs EU food additive specifications and Annex III (consolidated 02012R0231-20260818 and 02008R1333-20260818)
- Publisher
- European Union (EUR-Lex)
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-18
Source: EUR-Lex, consolidated texts 02012R0231-20260818 (Commission Regulation (EU) No 231/2012) and 02008R1333-20260818 (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, Annex III), © European Union, CC BY 4.0; parsed and reformatted. Consolidated texts are documentation; only the Official Journal is authentic.
gb Great Britain food additive authorisations (FSA/FSS register; assimilated Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, Annex II as at 28 June 2024)
- Publisher
- Food Standards Agency / Food Standards Scotland; The National Archives (legislation.gov.uk)
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-18
Positive list for England, Scotland and Wales (not Northern Ireland, which applies the EU list). The register lists authorised additives; conditions of use are Annex II to assimilated Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 as it stood on 28 June 2024 (S.I. 2025/361, regs 8(27) and 23), except where the register links conditions of use of its own, which replace it.
gras GRAS Notice Inventory
- Publisher
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Licence
- Public domain
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-18
FDA GRAS Notice Inventory export, last updated 2026-10-15; 1360 notices; content sha256 de6d6c816b12e87f61af2e5a1ddc681d014af3b4229277a06f39032370897efd. A response to a GRAS notice is not a listing in 21 CFR.
gsfa Codex General Standard for Food Additives (CXS 192-1995)
- Publisher
- Codex Alimentarius Commission (FAO/WHO)
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-07
© FAO. Reproduced for a non-commercial service with acknowledgement of FAO as source and copyright holder; FAO endorsement is not implied. Obtained manually — GSFA Online is behind an anti-bot challenge. See docs/licensing.md.
jecfa Evaluations of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA)
- Publisher
- World Health Organization
- Licence
- WHO website terms of use — © WHO, all rights reserved; non-commercial use with acknowledgement
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-20
ADIs only, from the newest evaluation stating one. Acknowledge WHO and cite the page URL. Reproduction of substantial portions requires WHO prior written authorisation — see docs/licensing.md.
jecfaspecs Combined Compendium of Food Additive Specifications (JECFA), online edition
- Publisher
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-23
JECFA specifications of identity and purity, published by FAO as the FAO JECFA Monographs and adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission as Codex Advisory Specifications. © FAO; a minority of the monographs carry a joint "© FAO/WHO" notice, so both bodies are acknowledged. Reproduced for a non-commercial service; no FAO, WHO or Codex endorsement is stated or implied. Text parsed from the monograph PDFs and reformatted. Not the WHO JECFA evaluations database — see the `jecfa` source row.
jp Japan: List of Designated Additives (Appended Table 1, Regulations for Enforcement of the Food Sanitation Act)
- Publisher
- Digital Agency, e-Gov Law Search (law text); Ministry of Justice, Japanese Law Translation (English names); Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, 法令等データベース (standards for use)
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-18
出典：e-Gov法令検索（デジタル庁）, 食品衛生法施行規則 別表第一; 出典：厚生労働省ホームページ (https://www.mhlw.go.jp/web/t_doc?dataId=78334000), 食品、添加物等の規格基準 第2 添加物 F 使用基準 (consolidated to 令和八年七月三日内閣府告示第七七号); English names: Japanese Law Translation (Ministry of Justice), an unofficial translation used only to match items to existing pages. Restructured and edited by foodadditiveindex.com; not an official publication of the Government of Japan. The MHLW database is a consolidated text, not the authentic one — the Official Gazette prevails. English descriptions of the standards for use are this site’s own, not a translation. Positive list: Food Sanitation Act Art. 12. Existing additives, natural flavouring agents and ordinary foods used as additives are not ingested; compositional specifications are not ingested. e-Gov revision 323M40000100023_20260401_507M60000100072.
kr South Korea: Standards and Specifications for Food Additives (식품첨가물의 기준 및 규격), MFDS Notification, Part III
- Publisher
- Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (식품의약품안전처), through the National Law Information Center (국가법령정보센터, law.go.kr)
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-18
출처: 식품의약품안전처 고시 「식품첨가물의 기준 및 규격」 (Notice No. 2025-76, promulgated 2025-11-26), 국가법령정보센터 (https://www.law.go.kr/행정규칙/%EC%8B%9D%ED%92%88%EC%B2%A8%EA%B0%80%EB%AC%BC%EC%9D%98%EA%B8%B0%EC%A4%80%EB%B0%8F%EA%B7%9C%EA%B2%A9). Restructured and edited by foodadditiveindex.com; not an official publication of the Government of Korea. The Korean text of each standard for use is stored as published; English descriptions of it are this site’s own, not a translation. Positive list: Food Sanitation Act. Part IV (compositional specifications) and the mixed preparations and utensil sanitisers are not ingested. Names are matched by CAS, then INS number, then exact name.
openfoodtox EFSA OpenFoodTox (2026-04-30)
- Publisher
- European Food Safety Authority
- Licence
- CC BY-ND 4.0
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-20
Zenodo record 19388272, published 2026-04-30. NoDerivatives licence — see docs/licensing.md. Attribution to EFSA required.
pages Pages added by hand
- Publisher
- Food Additive Index
- Licence
- Not applicable: a list of decisions, not data
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-18
ingest/sources/new-pages.json: each entry names the pages checked and why none is the substance. Every fact on these pages comes from the sources that name them.
pubchem PubChem (PUG-REST)
- Publisher
- National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine
- Licence
- Public domain
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-29
Enrichment only — never creates an additive. NLM asks to be acknowledged as the source. Looked up by CAS where known, otherwise by name; name matches are verified against the compound's own synonym list before being accepted.
saf Substances Added to Food (formerly EAFUS)
- Publisher
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Licence
- Public domain
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-18
FDA Substances Added to Food inventory export, last updated 2026-09-08; 3970 substances; content sha256 a97688094e19bd7c7d47e808df7ab9c268c04c2ff9bbabfd96367863ff358c28. It is important to note that the inventory is only a partial list of food ingredients. Inclusion in this inventory of information from non-FDA entities does not indicate an FDA approval or evaluation of this use.
us-listings Electronic Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21: sections read by hand
- Publisher
- U.S. Government Publishing Office / National Archives
- Licence
- Public domain
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-18
Title 21 as amended through 2026-10-14. Substances that a section names inside a list of several, which the eCFR import cannot make a row for. Each was read in the section; ingest/sources/us-listings.json holds the quoted place and the reasons for every citation not accepted.
Attribution and terms
Codex Alimentarius material is © FAO, reproduced here for a non-commercial service with acknowledgement of FAO as source and copyright holder. FAO endorsement of this site is not stated or implied. EFSA OpenFoodTox is CC BY-ND 4.0 and attributed to the European Food Safety Authority. eCFR material is a work of the US federal government and in the public domain, as is FDA's GRAS Notice Inventory. PubChem data is in the public domain, courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, which asks to be acknowledged as its source.
The JECFA specifications for identity and purity are published by FAO and reproduced here for a non-commercial service with acknowledgement of FAO as source and copyright holder; the monographs that carry a joint notice are acknowledged to FAO and WHO. Neither body's endorsement of this site is stated or implied, and a JECFA specification is advisory — it binds nobody until a country adopts it.
The acceptable daily intakes JECFA has set are taken from WHO's Evaluations of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives database, whose pages are © World Health Organization under the WHO website terms of use — not the CC BY-NC-SA licence that covers WHO publications such as the technical report series. What this site records from it is the figure, the committee meeting and the year, with every value linked back to WHO's own entry; no evaluation text is reproduced. WHO's endorsement of this site is not stated or implied, and an intake set by JECFA has no legal effect anywhere until a regulator adopts it.
Japan's list of designated additives: source e-Gov Law Search (Digital Agency), and English names from Japanese Law Translation (Ministry of Justice), both under the Public Data License 1.0. This site has restructured that content and matched it to its own pages; it is not an official publication, and the English names are an unofficial reference translation.
South Korea's Standards and Specifications for Food Additives (식품첨가물의 기준 및 규격), a notification of the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, read from the National Law Information Center (law.go.kr). Notifications are excluded from copyright by Article 7 of the Copyright Act of Korea, and the Center states that its legal information may be used freely, commercial use included. It also states that its text has no legal effect: the Official Gazette (관보) prevails. This site has restructured the content and matched it to its own pages; it is not an official publication, and the English beside each standard for use describes what the rule does and is this site's, not a translation.
The EU allergen list, and the labelling statements on what a label must say, are quoted from the consolidated text of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 on EUR-Lex (© European Union, reuse authorised under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU). The statements required by Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 are quoted from the same source, and from legislation.gov.uk for Great Britain, which contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. A consolidated text is an editorial convenience and is not legally authentic; the acts in the Official Journal are. EFSA opinions are summarised in this site's words and linked; EFSA Journal articles are published under CC BY-ND 4.0.
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