Relevant Data

Food Additives Approved by European Union:


General Information

Synonyms: COPPER CHLOROPHYLL, COPPER PHAEOPHYTIN
Chemical Names: COPPER PHAEOPHYTIN A; COPPER PHAEOPHYTIN B
CAS number: 65963-40-8
INS:

141(i)

Functional Class: Food Additives
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Evaluations

Evaluation year: 1969
ADI: 0-15 mg/kg bw
Meeting: 13
Specs Code: R (1987)
Report: NMRS 46/TRS 445-JECFA 13/10
Tox Monograph: FAS 70.36/NMRS 46A-JECFA 13/15
Specification: COMPENDIUM ADDENDUM 10/FNP 52 Add.10/34 (METALS LIMITS) (2002); FAO JECFA Monographs 1 vol.1/385

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GSFA Provisions for CHLOROPHYLLS, COPPER COMPLEXES

Number Food Category Max Level Notes
07.1.4

Bread-type products, including bread stuffing and bread crumbs

6 mg/kg Note 62,Note 161
04.1.2.4

Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit

100 mg/kg Note 62
05.1.4

Cocoa and chocolate products

700 mg/kg Note 183
05.1.2

Cocoa mixes (syrups)

6 mg/kg Note 62,Note 161
05.1.3

Cocoa-based spreads, including fillings

6 mg/kg Note 62,Note XS86,Note 161
09.2.4.1

Cooked fish and fish products

30 mg/kg Note 62,Note 95
04.1.2.12

Cooked fruit

100 mg/kg Note 62
04.2.2.8

Cooked or fried vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), and seaweeds

100 mg/kg Note 62
10.4

Egg-based desserts (e.g. custard)

300 mg/kg Note 2
04.1.2.10

Fermented fruit products

100 mg/kg Note 62
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, 12.9.2.1 and 12.9.2.3

100 mg/kg Note 62
09.3.1

Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms, marinated and/or in jelly

40 mg/kg Note 16
09.3.2

Fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms, pickled and/or in brine

40 mg/kg Note 16
01.1.4

Flavoured fluid milk drinks

50 mg/kg Note 52,Note 190
13.6

Food supplements

500 mg/kg Note 3
09.2.4.3

Fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms

40 mg/kg Note 95
09.2.3

Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms

40 mg/kg Note 95
04.1.2.11

Fruit fillings for pastries

100 mg/kg Note 62
04.1.2.3

Fruit in vinegar, oil, or brine

100 mg/kg Note 62
04.1.2.8

Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and coconut milk

100 mg/kg Note 62,Note 182
09.4

Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms

500 mg/kg Note 95
04.1.2.5

Jams, jellies, marmelades

200 mg/kg Note 161
11.4

Other sugars and syrups (e.g. xylose, maple syrup, sugar toppings)

64 mg/kg Note 62
06.4.3

Pre-cooked pastas and noodles and like products

100 mg/kg Note 153
09.3.4

Semi-preserved fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms (e.g. fish paste), excluding products of food categories 09.3.1 - 09.3.3

75 mg/kg Note 95
09.2.5

Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms

200 mg/kg Note XS311
05.2.2

Soft candy

100 mg/kg Note XS309R
12.5

Soups and broths

400 mg/kg Note 342
01.6.1

Unripened cheese

50 mg/kg Note 161
04.2.2.6

Vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweed, and nut and seed pulps and preparations (e.g. vegetable desserts and sauces, candied vegetables) other than food category 04.2.2.5

100 mg/kg Note 62,Note 92
04.2.2.5

Vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweed, and nut and seed purees and spreads (e.g., peanut butter)

100 mg/kg Note 62

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