What counts as Sorbic acid, sorbates; Benzoic acid…?

Limit 200 mg/kg (content basis)

• EU food category: Processed fish and fishery products including mollusks and crustaceans [09.2]

Depends on: eu food category code

In force, start date unknown

Art. 35: applies from 20 January 2010; Annex II as consolidated 2026-08-18, amendment dates of single rows not tracked. The row sits in the block marked ▼M76 (inserted or replaced by an amending act); the published text lists the amending acts with their Official Journal publication dates only, not their application dates, so 20 January 2010 (Art. 35) stands in for the row's start date.

From the consolidated text: E 200-213 · Sorbic acid – potassium sorbate; Benzoic acid – benzoates · 200 · (1) (2) · only salted, dried fish

Limit 2000 mg/kg (content basis)

• EU food category: Processed fish and fishery products including mollusks and crustaceans [09.2]

Depends on: eu food category code

In force, start date unknown

Art. 35: applies from 20 January 2010; Annex II as consolidated 2026-08-18, amendment dates of single rows not tracked. The row sits in the block marked ▼M76 (inserted or replaced by an amending act); the published text lists the amending acts with their Official Journal publication dates only, not their application dates, so 20 January 2010 (Art. 35) stands in for the row's start date.

From the consolidated text: E 200-213 · Sorbic acid – potassium sorbate; Benzoic acid – benzoates · 2 000 · (1) (2) · only semi-preserved fish and fisheries products including crustaceans, molluscs, surimi and fish/crustacean paste; cooked crustaceans and molluscs

Limit 6000 mg/kg (content basis)

• EU food category: Processed fish and fishery products including mollusks and crustaceans [09.2]

Depends on: eu food category code

In force, start date unknown

Art. 35: applies from 20 January 2010; Annex II as consolidated 2026-08-18, amendment dates of single rows not tracked. The row sits in the block marked ▼M76 (inserted or replaced by an amending act); the published text lists the amending acts with their Official Journal publication dates only, not their application dates, so 20 January 2010 (Art. 35) stands in for the row's start date.

From the consolidated text: E 200-213 · Sorbic acid – potassium sorbate; Benzoic acid – benzoates · 6 000 · (1) (2) · only cooked Crangon crangon and Crangon vulgaris

Limit 2000 mg/kg (content basis)

• EU food category: Fish roe [09.3]

Depends on: eu food category code

In force, start date unknown

Art. 35: applies from 20 January 2010; Annex II as consolidated 2026-08-18, amendment dates of single rows not tracked. The row sits in the block marked ▼M76 (inserted or replaced by an amending act); the published text lists the amending acts with their Official Journal publication dates only, not their application dates, so 20 January 2010 (Art. 35) stands in for the row's start date.

From the consolidated text: E 200-213 · Sorbic acid – potassium sorbate; Benzoic acid – benzoates · 2 000 · (1) (2) · only semi-preserved fish products including fish roe products

Limit 5000 mg/kg (content basis)

• EU food category: Processed eggs and egg products [10.2]

Depends on: eu food category code

In force, start date unknown

Art. 35: applies from 20 January 2010; Annex II as consolidated 2026-08-18, amendment dates of single rows not tracked. The row sits in the block marked ▼M76 (inserted or replaced by an amending act); the published text lists the amending acts with their Official Journal publication dates only, not their application dates, so 20 January 2010 (Art. 35) stands in for the row's start date.

From the consolidated text: E 200-213 · Sorbic acid – potassium sorbate; Benzoic acid – benzoates · 5 000 · (1) (2) · only liquid egg (white, yolk or whole egg)