Colours requiring additional information

When used in a food, the following colours require the additional warning statement:

“[name or E number of the colours]: may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children”

• Sunset yellow (E110)
• Quinoline yellow (E104)
• Carmoisine (E122)
• Allura red (E129)
• Tartrazine (E102)
• Ponceau 4R (E124)

For all of the above, an exception is provided for:

1. foods where the colour(s) has been used for the purposes of health or other marking on meat products or for stamping or decorative colouring on eggshells; and
2. beverages containing more than 1.2% by volume of alcohol.