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Additives permitted in bread under Vietnam's Circular 24/2019

To know what is in a particular loaf, read its own label; this page only lists the additives that Annex 2A of Circular 24/2019/TT-BYT allows in bread and ready-mixed flours[1].

What's actually on the label

List under Appendix 2A, Circular 24/2019

Risk level on the Yenzo Scale, not the Circular's.

About this list

Bread, crackers, steamed buns and ready-mixed flours are divided into 07.1.x groups, such as “bread and ordinary bakery wares”, “crackers, excluding sweet crackers” and “steamed bread and buns”[2]; one loaf holds only a small part. Sucrose esters (E473) carry a footnote allowing them alone or combined with INS 473a and 474[3]. Sorbitan monostearate (E491) has a level “for the powder form”[4]. Both are emulsifiers, a class Codex describes as forming or keeping a uniform emulsion[5]. Read the group name and number in the loaf's ingredient line.

The list comes from the “found in” section of each additive's page: the food groups of Circular 24/2019/TT-BYT, Appendix 2A (maximum levels of additives in food). Being listed means the additive is permitted there, not that every product contains it.

Related additive categories

Sources

  1. Thông tư 24/2019/TT-BYT (văn bản hợp nhất 09/VBHN-BYT), Điều 5 khoản 2
  2. Thông tư 24/2019/TT-BYT (văn bản hợp nhất 09/VBHN-BYT): Phụ lục 2A, nhóm 07.1
  3. Thông tư 24/2019/TT-BYT (văn bản hợp nhất 09/VBHN-BYT): Phụ lục 1 và Phụ lục 2A, INS 473
  4. Thông tư 24/2019/TT-BYT (văn bản hợp nhất 09/VBHN-BYT): Phụ lục 1 và Phụ lục 2A, INS 491
  5. CAC/GL 36-1989 Class Names and the International Numbering System for Food Additives, Section 2: emulsifier
  6. Sandwich Staff Gói 275G
  7. Sandwich Momiji Khoai Tây Gạo Lứt Gói 300G

Updated: 22 October 2026

Information only, not medical advice. The risk level is the additive's class in Yenzo's open scoring method, based on the cited source.

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