The synthetic colours that are permitted to be used are mentioned below.
• Red from: Ponceau 4R, Carmoisine, and Erythrosine
• Yellow from: Tartrazine and Sunset Yellow FCF
• Blue from: Indigo Carmine and Brilliant Blue FCF
• Green from: Fast Green FCF
Food products in which FSSAI permits colour as additive
• Ice-cream, milk lollies, frozen desserts, flavoured milk, yoghurt, ice-cream mix-powder
• Biscuits including biscuit wafer, pastries, cakes, confectionery, thread candies, sweets, savouries (dalmoth, mongia, phululab, sago papad, dal biji only)
• Peas, strawberries and cherries in hermetically sealed containers, preserved or processed papaya, canned tomato juice, fruit syrup, fruit squash, fruit crushes, fruit cordial, jellies, jam, marmalade, candied crystallised or glazed fruits
• Non-alcoholic carbonated and non-carbonated ready to serve synthetic beverages including synthetic syrups, sherbets, fruit bar, fruit beverages, fruit drinks, synthetic soft-drink concentrates
• Custard powder
• Jelly crystal and ice-candy
• Flavour emulsion and flavour paste for use in carbonated or non-carbonated beverages only under label declaration
Synthetic colours have maximum limits this is usually 100 parts per million of the final food or beverage for consumption. However, in some foods and beverages, mentioned in regulations, the maximum limit of permitted synthetic food colours may be up to and not exceed 200 parts per million of the final food or beverage for consumption.
The declaration about the food colours on the label shall be in accordance with the FSS (Packaging & Labelling) Regulations, 2011.There is news that, fssai will be making changes in permitted colours soon. I shall let you know details , shortly, after co0nfirming./ Krishnan more
It is perfectly fine that the technical information about the permissible limit is available in public domain. How a common consumer can check it whether the food he consumes contains only permissible amount of colour? How to test it ? If found wrong whom should he approach ? Please guide. more