Food and Drug Regulations

B.06.041 [S]. Amaranth shall be the trisodium salt of 1-(4-sulpho-1-naphthylazo)-2-naphthol-3,6-disulphonic acid, shall contain not less than 85 per cent dye, as determined by official method FO-7, and may contain not more than

• (a) 0.2 per cent water insoluble matter, as determined by official method FO-8;

• (b) 0.2 per cent combined ether extracts, as determined by official method FO-9;

• (c) 4.0 per cent subsidiary dyes, as determined by official method FO-10; and

• (d) 0.5 per cent intermediates, as determined by official method FO-11.