Maximum acceptable limits
A.1 Maximum acceptable limits
Product |
Amount used in the treatment |
Residue in the wine |
Source (*) |
Acidity |
Lactic acids, L(-) or DL malic acid and L(+) tartaric and citric acids can be only be added to musts under condition that the initial acidity content is not raised by more than 54 meq/l (i.e. 4 g/l expressed in tartaric acid), |
Code |
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Ammonium Sulphate |
0.3 g/l |
Code |
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Arsenic |
0.2 mg/l |
Compendium |
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Ascorbic acid |
250 mg/l |
300 mg/l |
Code |
Boron |
80 mg/l (expressed as boric acid) |
Compendium |
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Bromide |
1 mg/l (limit exceeded exceptionally in wines coming from certain vineyards with brackish subsoil) |
Compendium |
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Cadmium |
0.01 mg/l |
Compendium |
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Calcium tartrate |
200 g/l |
Code |
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Product |
Amount used in the treatment |
Residue in the wine |
Source (*) |
Carbon |
100 g/hl |
Code |
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Citric acid |
1 g/l |
Compendium |
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Copper (Oeno 434-2011) |
1 mg/l 2 mg/l for liqueur wines produced from unfermented or slightly fermented grape must |
Compendium |
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Copper sulphate |
1 g/hl |
Code |
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Diammonium phosphate |
0.3 g/l |
Code |
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Diethylene glycol |
10 mg/l, to the quantification limit. |
Compendium |
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Ethanediol/ |
10 mg/l |
Compendium |
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Fluoride |
1 mg/l except for vineyards treated with cryolite in accordance with the national law; in this case the fluoride content shall not exceed 3 mg/l |
Compendium |
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Gum arabic |
0.3 g/l |
Code |
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Lysozyme |
500 mg/l |
Code |
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Malvidin diglucoside |
15 mg/l (determined by the quantitative method described in the Collection) |
Compendium |
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Lead |
Wine: 0.10 mg/L (starting from the 2019 harvest year) Liqueur wines: 0.15 mg/L (starting from the 2019 harvest year) |
Compendium |
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Metatartaric acid |
10 g/hl |
Code |
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Methanol Oeno 19/04 |
400 mg/l for wines rouges |
Compendium |
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250 mg/l for white wines and rosés |
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Natamycine Oeno 461-2012) |
5 μg/L[1] |
Compendium |
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Copolymer PVI/PVP |
< 500 g/hl |
Vinylpyrrolidone < 10 μg/l Vinylimidazole < 10 μg/l Pyrrolidone < 25 μg/l Imidazole < 150 μg/l |
Code |
Polyvinylpoly-pyrrolidone |
80 g/hl |
Code |
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Propane-1,2-diol Propylene glycol |
Still wines: 150 mg/l Sparkling wines: 300 mg/l |
Compendium |
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Silver Chloride (Oeno 145-2009) |
1 g/HL |
<0.1 mg/L (silver) |
Code |
Sodium Carboxymethylcellulose |
0.2 mg/L |
Code |
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Sodium in excess |
80 mg/l |
Compendium |
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Sorbic acid |
200 mg/l |
Code |
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Product |
Amount used in the treatment |
Residue in the wine |
Source (*) |
Sulphates |
1 g/l (expressed as potassium sulphate) |
Compendium |
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1.5 g/l for wines aged in casks for at least 2 years, for sweetened wines, for wines obtained by addition of alcohol or spirit to musts or to wines. |
Compendium |
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2 g/l for wines with added concentrated musts, for naturally sweet wines |
Compendium |
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2.5 g/l for film or flor wines |
Compendium |
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Sulphur dioxide (total) |
150 mg/l for red wines containing at the most 4 g/l of reducing substances |
Compendium |
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Sulphur dioxide (total) |
200 mg/l for white wines and rosés containing at the most 4 g/l reducing substances |
Compendium |
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300 mg/l: red wines, rosés and whites containing more than 4 g/l of reducing substances |
Compendium |
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400 mg/l: exceptionally in certain sweet white wines |
Compendium |
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Volatile acidity |
20 milliequivalents/l i.e. 1.2 g/l (expressed as acetic acid). The volatile acidity of some old wines of particular elaboration (wines subject to a particular legislation and monitored by the government) can exceed this limit. |
Compendium |
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Yeast ghosts |
40 g/hl |
Code |
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Zinc |
5 mg/l |
Compendium |
(*) These limits are fixed in the International Code of Oenological Practices (Code) or in the Compendium of International Methods of Analysis for Wines and Musts (Compendium).
[1] As there is lack of a reliable interlaboratory estimate of the critical level, a decision limit of 5 µg/l is temporarily adopted until a reliable interlaboratory estimate or other robust indicators of the critical level can be obtained