✨ Food Additives Schedule




4490 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE No. 170

SCHEDULE 1

INS Number Additive Name Max level Applications

8 MEAT AND MEAT PRODUCTS (including poultry and game)

8.1 Raw meat, poultry and game

Additives in Schedules 2,3&4 must not be present in raw meat, poultry and game unless expressly permitted below

| | Sodium acetates | 5000 | mg/kg |
| fresh poultry | | | |
| 262 | | | |

8.2 Processed meat, poultry and game products in whole pieces or cuts*

| commercially sterile canned cured meat | Nitrites (potassium and sodium salts) | 50 | mg/kg |
| 249 250 | | | total of nitrates and nitrites, calculated as sodium nitrite |

| cured meat | Nitrites (potassium and sodium salts) | 125 | mg/kg |
| 249 250 | | | total of nitrates and nitrites, calculated as sodium nitrite |
| 251 252 | Nitrates (potassium and sodium salts) | 125 | mg/kg |

| dried meat | Sorbic acid and sodium, potassium and calcium sorbates | 1500 | mg/kg |
| 200 201 202 203 | | | |
| 249 250 | Nitrites (potassium and sodium salts) | 125 | mg/kg |
| | | | total of nitrates and nitrites, calculated as sodium nitrite |

| slow dried cured meat | Nitrites (potassium and sodium salts) | 125 | mg/kg |
| 249 250 | | | total of nitrates and nitrites, calculated as sodium nitrite |
| 251 252 | Nitrates (potassium and sodium salts) | 500 | mg/kg |

8.3 Processed comminuted meat, poultry and game products*

| 160b | Annatto extracts | 100 | mg/kg |
| 220 221 222 223 | Sulphur dioxide and sodium and potassium sulphites | 500 | mg/kg |
| 224 225 228 | | | |
| 249 250 | Nitrites (potassium and sodium salts) | 125 | mg/kg |
| | | | total of nitrates and nitrites, calculated as sodium nitrite |

| fermented, uncooked processed comminuted meat products | Sorbic acid and sodium, potassium and calcium sorbates | 1500 | mg/kg |
| 200 201 202 203 | | | |

*Additives in Schedules 2, 3, and 4 are permitted



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Online Sources for this page:

VUW Te Waharoa PDF NZ Gazette 2000, No 170


Gazette.govt.nz PDF NZ Gazette 2000, No 170





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πŸ₯ Schedule of Permitted Food Additives (continued from previous page)

πŸ₯ Health & Social Welfare
Food additives, Schedules, Maximum levels, Applications, Meat, Poultry, Game, Sodium acetates, Nitrites, Nitrates, Sorbic acid, Sodium sorbate, Potassium sorbate, Calcium sorbate, Annatto extracts, Sulphur dioxide, Sodium sulphite, Potassium sulphite