Hong Kong RegulationsPERMITTED COLOURING MATTER
Common Name of Colour |
Scientific Name |
Colour Index Number (1982) |
| Allura Red AC |
sulphophenyl)-azo]-2-naphthalene-sulphonic acid. |
16035 |
| Amaranth |
|
16185 |
Black PN
|
|
28440 |
| Brilliant Blue FCF
& C No. 1) |
|
42090 |
| Brown FK |
|
|
| Carmoisine |
|
14720 |
Chocolate Brown
|
|
20285 |
| Erythrosine (BS) | disodium or dipotassium salt of 2:4:5:7-tetra-iodo-fluorescein. | 45430 |
| Green S |
|
44090 |
| Indigotine(Indigo Carmine) | disodium salt of indigotin-5:5'-disulphonic acid. | 73015 |
| Lithol Rubine BK |
|
15850 |
| Patent Blue V |
|
42051 |
| Ponceau 4R |
|
16255 |
| Quinoline Yellow |
|
47005 |
| Red 2G |
|
18050 |
| Sunset Yellow FCF |
|
15985 |
| Tartrazine |
|
19140 |
Description |
Colour Index Number (1982) |
| Caramel | - |
| Cochineal (Carminic acid) | 75470 |
Colouring matter natural to edible fruits or vegetables or their pure colouring principles whether isolated from such natural colours or produced synthetically and including-
(b) Vegetable Black (c) Carotenes (d) Beta-Apo-8'-carotenal (e) Beta-Apo-8'-carotenoic acid ethyl ester (f) Chlorophylls and Chlorophyllins
(h) Tumeric (Curcumin) |
75120 75130 40820 40825 75810 75815 75100 75300 |
| Iron Oxides | 77491 |
| Titanium dioxide | 77891 |
| Silver, Gold and Aluminium in leaf or powder form solely for external colouring of dragees and decoration of sugar-coated flour confectionery | |
| The Aluminium or Calcium salts (lakes) of any of the scheduled water-soluble colours |