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Glossary

Calcium chloride (509)

Functional Classes: Firming agent, Stabilizer, Thickener

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GSFA Provisions for Calcium chloride

N°

Food Category

Max Level

Notes

14.1.5.0

Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa

GMP

160: For use in ready-to-drink products and pre-mixes for ready-to-drink products only.

N°

14.1.5.0

Food Category

Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa

Max Level

GMP

Notes

160: For use in ready-to-drink products and pre-mixes for ready-to-drink products only.

09.2.4.1

Cooked fish and fish products

GMP

241: For use in surimi products only.

N°

09.2.4.1

Food Category

Cooked fish and fish products

Max Level

GMP

Notes

241: For use in surimi products only.

01.8.2.0

Dried whey and whey products, excluding whey cheeses

GMP

N°

01.8.2.0

Food Category

Dried whey and whey products, excluding whey cheeses

Max Level

GMP

Notes

04.2.2.7

Fermented vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera) and seaweed products, excluding fermented soybean products of food categories 06.8.6, 06.8.7, 12.9.1, 12.9.2.1 and 12.9.2.3

GMP

N°

04.2.2.7

Food Category

Max Level

GMP

Notes

08.1.1.0

Fresh meat, poultry, and game, whole pieces or cuts

GMP

16: For use in glaze, coatings or decorations for fruit, vegetables, meat or fish only.

326: For use in fresh meat, poultry and game products only.

N°

08.1.1.0

Food Category

Fresh meat, poultry, and game, whole pieces or cuts

Max Level

GMP

Notes

16: For use in glaze, coatings or decorations for fruit, vegetables, meat or fish only.

326: For use in fresh meat, poultry and game products only.

09.2.4.3

Fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms

GMP

41: For use in breading or batter coatings only.

N°

09.2.4.3

Food Category

Fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms

Max Level

GMP

Notes

41: For use in breading or batter coatings only.

09.2.2.0

Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms

GMP

41: For use in breading or batter coatings only.

XS166: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Quick Frozen Fish Sticks (Fish Fingers), Fish Portions and Fish Fillets – Breaded or in Batter (CODEX STAN 166-1989).

N°

09.2.2.0

Food Category

Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms

Max Level

GMP

Notes

09.2.3.0

Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms

GMP

N°

09.2.3.0

Food Category

Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms

Max Level

GMP

Notes

04.2.2.1

Frozen vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweeds, and nuts and seeds

GMP

29: For non-standardized food only.

323: For use as firming agent.

324: For use in aloe vera only.

N°

04.2.2.1

Food Category

Frozen vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweeds, and nuts and seeds

Max Level

GMP

Notes

29: For non-standardized food only.

323: For use as firming agent.

324: For use in aloe vera only.

01.4.1.0

Pasteurized cream (plain)

GMP

236: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Cream and Prepared Creams (reconstituted cream, recombined cream, prepackaged liquid cream) (CODEX STAN 288-1976).

N°

01.4.1.0

Food Category

Pasteurized cream (plain)

Max Level

GMP

Notes

236: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Cream and Prepared Creams (reconstituted cream, recombined cream, prepackaged liquid cream) (CODEX STAN 288-1976).

12.1.2.0

Salt Substitutes

GMP

58: As calcium.

N°

12.1.2.0

Food Category

Salt Substitutes

Max Level

GMP

Notes

58: As calcium.

09.2.5.0

Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms

GMP

300: For use in salted squid only.

XS167: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Salted Fish and Dried Salted Fish of the Gadidae Family of Fishes (CODEX STAN 167-1989).

XS189: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Dried Shark Fins (CODEX STAN 189-1993).

XS222: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Crackers from Marine and Freshwater Fish, Crustaceans and Molluscan Shellfish (CODEX STAN 222-2001).

XS236: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Boiled Dried Salted Anchovies (CODEX STAN 236-2003).

XS244: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Salted Atlantic Herring and Salted Sprat (CODEX STAN 244-2004).

XS311: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Smoked Fish, Smoked-flavoured Fish and Smoke-dried Fish (CODEX STAN 311-2013).

N°

09.2.5.0

Food Category

Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms

Max Level

GMP

Notes

01.4.2.0

Sterilized and UHT creams, whipping and whipped creams, and reduced fat creams (plain)

GMP

N°

01.4.2.0

Food Category

Sterilized and UHT creams, whipping and whipped creams, and reduced fat creams (plain)

Max Level

GMP

Notes

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Note: Unless otherwise specified, food additive provisions apply to the food category indicated (e.g. Dairy), as well as to all subcategories of that category (e.g. Cheese, Ripened Cheese, etc.).

GSFA Table 3 Provisions

Calcium chloride is a food additive that is included in Table 3, and as such may be used in the following foods under the conditions of good manufacturing practices (GMP) as outlined in the Preamble of the Codex GSFA. Although not listed below, Calcium chloride could also be used in heat-treated butter milk of food category 01.1.1 and spices of food category 12.2.1.
Note that food categories listed in the Annex to Table 3 were excluded accordingly.

Calcium chloride is acceptable in foods conforming to the following commodity standards: CS 250-2006, CS 251-2006, CS 252-2006.

Calcium chloride is a: Firming agent, Stabilizer, Thickener.
Any Firming agent listed in Table 3 can be acceptable for use in all products conforming to CS 319-2015 (canned mangoes only).
Any Stabilizer listed in Table 3 can be acceptable for use in all products conforming to CS 117-1981, CS 256-2007.
Any Thickener listed in Table 3 can be acceptable for use in all products conforming to CS 117-1981, CS 256-2007.