China Approves New Varieties of Food Additives and Nutritional Fortification Substances

On Jun. 30, 2016, China NHFPC announced the approval of ten new 10 food additives and 3 nutritional fortification substances, and detailed the expanded application scope or usage of 19 food additives and 1 nutritional fortification substance upon safety evaluation.

Takehome:

The details of the newly approved food additives and nutritional fortification substances and their expanded application scope/usage have been listed.

10 new food additives:

Calcium alginate
Quillaia extract
Phosphoric acid (wet process)
Iron tartrate
Theaflavins
2(4)-Ethyl-4(2),6-dimethyldihydro-1,3,5-dithiazinane
3-Heptyldihydro-5-methyl-2(3H)-furanone
Vanillyl alcohol
6-[5(6)-Decenoyloxy]decanoic acid
Glucosyl Steviol Glycosides

3 new nutritional fortification substances:

Magnesium-L-Threonate
Galacto-oligosaccharides (GOS)
Vitamin K2 (Fermentation)

19 food additives and 1 nutritional fortification substance with expanded application scope or usage:

No.	Food additive name	Expanded application scope	Maximum limit (g/kg)
1	L(+)-tartaric acid	Candy	30
2	Dimethyl dicarbonate	Flavored beverage	0.25
3	Titanium dioxide	Protein casings	As appropriate
4	Monascus red	Egg products (physical property changed)	As appropriate
4	Monascus red	Other egg products	As appropriate
5	Caramel color classⅠ-plain	Dried bean curd products	As appropriate
6	Potassium metabisulphite	Assembled alcoholic drinks	0.25g/L
7	Sodium metabisulphite	Vegetable can	0.05
7	Sodium metabisulphite	Soy protein (only limited to soy protein isolate and soy protein concentrate)	0.03
8	Ascorbyl palmitate	Tea beverage	0.2
9	Curdlan	Flavored fermented milk	As appropriate
		Ice cream and popsicle	As appropriate
		Chewing gum	As appropriate
		Mayonnaise and salad dressing	As appropriate
		Vegetable protein drink	As appropriate
		Other solid beverages	As appropriate
10	Paprika red	Pickled edible mushrooms and algae	As appropriate
11	Paprika oleoresin	Dried bean curd products	As appropriate
11	Paprika oleoresin	New bean products (soy protein puffed food, bean vegetarian meat, etc.)	As appropriate
12	Brilliant blue, brilliant blue aluminum lake	Color decorations of pastry	0.025
13	Glycerol ester of wood rosin	Coating for candy and chocolate products	0.32
14	Potassium sorbate	Emulsion products with less than 80% fat content	1.0
15	Sorbitol and sorbitol syrup	Frozen minced fish products (including fish ball, etc.)	20
16	TBHQ	Pastry	0.2
17	Vegetable carbon	Protein casings	As appropriate
18	Insoluble PVP	Processing technique of tea beverage	As appropriate
19	Calcium silicate	Processing technique of frying oil	40

No.	Name of nutritional fortification substance	Expanded application scope	Maximum limit
1	L-carnitine	Fruit and vegetable juice (syrup) drinks	100 mg/kg～3000 mg/kg
		Milk beverages	100 mg/kg～3000 mg/kg
		Flavored Beverages (fruit flavored beverage only)	100 mg/kg～3000 mg/kg

Reference link

NHFPC No. 8 (2016) Announcement