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Schedule 8 Food additive names and code numbers (for statement of ingredients)

Note 1 This instrument is a standard under the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991 (Cth). The standards together make up the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code. See also section 1.1.1—3.

 Standard 1.2.4 is a standard for the information requirements relating to the statement of ingredients, and contains provisions relating to, among other things, substances used as food additives. This Standard lists food additive numbers for the definition of the term code number in section 1.1.2—2, and names and code numbers for subsection 1.2.4—7(1).

Note 2 The provisions of the Code that apply in New Zealand are incorporated in, or adopted under, the Food Act 2014 (NZ). See also section 1.1.1—3.
S8—1 Name
  This Standard is Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code – Schedule 8 – Food additive names and code numbers (for statement of ingredients).
 Note Commencement:
This Standard commences on 1 March 2016, being the date specified as the commencement date in notices in the Gazette and the New Zealand Gazette under section 92 of the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991 (Cth). See also section 93 of that Act.
S8—2 Food additive names and code numbers
  For the definition of code number in section 1.1.2—2 and for subsection 1.2.4—7(1), the food additive names and *code numbers are as listed in the following table (first in alphabetical order, then in numerical order):
Food additive names—alphabetical listing
Acacia or gum Arabic                                                                                                    414
Acesulphame potassium                                                                                                   950
Acetic acid, glacial                                                                                                    260
Acetic and fatty acid esters of glycerol                                                                                472a
Acetylated distarch adipate                                                                                             1422
Acetylated distarch phosphate                                                                                           1414
Acetylated oxidised starch                                                                                              1451
Acid treated starch                                                                                                     1401
Adipic acid                                                                                                             355
Advantame                                                                                                               969
Agar                                                                                                                    406
Alginic acid                                                                                                            400
Alitame                                                                                                                 956
Alkaline treated starch                                                                                                 1402
Alkanet or Alkannin                                                                                                     103
Allura red AC                                                                                                           129
Aluminium                                                                                                               173
Aluminium silicate                                                                                                      559
Amaranth                                                                                                                123
Ammonium acetate                                                                                                        264
Ammonium adipates                                                                                                       359
Ammonium alginate                                                                                                       403

Ammonium carbonate                                                                                                      503
Ammonium chloride                                                                                                       510
Ammonium citrate                                                                                                        380
Ammonium fumarate                                                                                                       368
Ammonium hydrogen carbonate                                                                                             503
Ammonium lactate                                                                                                        328
Ammonium malate                                                                                                         349
Ammonium phosphate, dibasic                                                                                             342
Ammonium phosphate, monobasic or Ammonium dihydrogen phosphates                                                         342
Ammonium salts of phosphatidic acid                                                                                     442
α-Amylase                                                                                                               1100
Annatto extracts                                                                                                        160b
Anthocyanins or Grape skin extract or Blackcurrant extract                                                              163
Arabinogalactan or larch gum                                                                                            409
Ascorbic acid                                                                                                           300
Ascorbyl palmitate                                                                                                      304
Aspartame                                                                                                               951
Aspartame-acesulphame salt                                                                                              962
Azorubine or Carmoisine                                                                                                 122

b-apo-8′-Carotenoic acid methyl or ethyl ester                                                                          160f
b-apo-8′-Carotenal                                                                                                      160e
Beeswax, white and yellow                                                                                               901
Beet red                                                                                                                162
Bentonite                                                                                                               558
Benzoic acid                                                                                                            210
Bleached starch                                                                                                         1403
Bone phosphate                                                                                                          542
Brilliant black BN or Brilliant Black PN                                                                                151
Brilliant Blue FCF                                                                                                      133
Brown HT                                                                                                                155
Butane                                                                                                                  943a
Butylated hydroxyanisole                                                                                                320
Butylated hydroxytoluene                                                                                                321

Calcium acetate                                                                                                         263
Calcium alginate                                                                                                        404