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Calcium ascorbate (302)

Functional Classes: Antioxidant

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GSFA Provisions for Calcium ascorbate

N°

Food Category

Max Level

Notes

13.2.0.0

Complementary foods for infants and young children

200 mg/kg

239: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Canned Baby Foods (CODEX STAN 73-1981).

317: As ascorbic acid.

N°

13.2.0.0

Food Category

Complementary foods for infants and young children

Max Level

200 mg/kg

Notes

239: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Canned Baby Foods (CODEX STAN 73-1981).

317: As ascorbic acid.

14.1.2.3

Concentrates for fruit juice

GMP

127: On the served to the consumer basis.

N°

14.1.2.3

Food Category

Concentrates for fruit juice

Max Level

GMP

Notes

127: On the served to the consumer basis.

14.1.3.3

Concentrates for fruit nectar

GMP

127: On the served to the consumer basis.

N°

14.1.3.3

Food Category

Concentrates for fruit nectar

Max Level

GMP

Notes

127: On the served to the consumer basis.

06.4.2.0

Dried pastas and noodles and like products

200 mg/kg

256: For use in noodles, gluten-free pasta and pasta intended for hypoproteic diets only.

N°

06.4.2.0

Food Category

Dried pastas and noodles and like products

Max Level

200 mg/kg

Notes

256: For use in noodles, gluten-free pasta and pasta intended for hypoproteic diets only.

13.1.2.0

Follow-up formulae

50 mg/kg

315: Singly or in combination: ascorbic acid (INS 300), sodium ascorbate (INS 301), calcium ascorbate (INS 302), and ascorbyl palmitate (INS 304).

70: As the acid.

72: On the ready-to-eat basis.

N°

13.1.2.0

Food Category

Follow-up formulae

Max Level

50 mg/kg

Notes

08.1.2.0

Fresh meat, poultry, and game, comminuted

GMP

281: For use in fresh minced meat which contains other ingredients apart from comminuted meat only.

N°

08.1.2.0

Food Category

Fresh meat, poultry, and game, comminuted

Max Level

GMP

Notes

281: For use in fresh minced meat which contains other ingredients apart from comminuted meat only.

09.1.2.0

Fresh mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms

GMP

390: For use as an antioxidant for non-standardized food and for raw chilled shucked mollusks conforming to the Standard for Live and Raw Bivalve Molluscs (CODEX STAN 292-2008).

XS312: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Live Abalone and for Raw Fresh Chilled or Frozen Abalone for Direct Consumption or for Further Processing (CODEX STAN 312-2013).

XS315: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Fresh and Quick Frozen Raw Scallop Products (CODEX STAN 315-2014).

N°

09.1.2.0

Food Category

Fresh mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms

Max Level

GMP

Notes

09.2.2.0

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

GMP

139: For use in mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms 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

09.2.1.0

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

GMP

308: For use in raw mollusks only.

392: For non-standardized food and for products conforming to the Standard for Live and Raw Bivalve Molluscs (CODEX STAN 292-2008): for use as an antioxidant for raw frozen molluscs.

XS165: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Quick Frozen Blocks of Fish Fillet, Minced Fish Flesh and Mixtures of Fillets and Minced Fish Flesh (CODEX STAN 165-1989).

XS190: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Quick Frozen Fish Fillets (CODEX STAN 190-1995).

XS191: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Quick Frozen Raw Squid (CODEX STAN 191-1995).

XS312: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Live Abalone and for Raw Fresh Chilled or Frozen Abalone for Direct Consumption or for Further Processing (CODEX STAN 312-2013).

XS315: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Fresh and Quick Frozen Raw Scallop Products (CODEX STAN 315-2014).

XS36: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Quick Frozen Finfish, Uneviscerated and Eviscerated (CODEX STAN 36-1981).

XS92: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Quick Frozen Shrimps and Prawns (CODEX STAN 92-1981).

XS95: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Quick Frozen Lobsters (CODEX STAN 95-1981).

N°

09.2.1.0

Food Category

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

Max Level

GMP

Notes

14.1.2.1

Fruit juice

GMP

N°

14.1.2.1

Food Category

Fruit juice

Max Level

GMP

Notes

14.1.3.1

Fruit nectar

GMP

N°

14.1.3.1

Food Category

Fruit nectar

Max Level

GMP

Notes

04.1.1.3

Peeled or cut fresh fruit

GMP

N°

04.1.1.3

Food Category

Peeled or cut fresh fruit

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 ascorbate 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 ascorbate 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 ascorbate is acceptable in foods conforming to the following commodity standards: CS 275-1973.

Calcium ascorbate is a: Antioxidant.
Any Antioxidant listed in Table 3 can be acceptable for use in all products conforming to CS 117-1981, CS 291-2010, CS 319-2015 (canned mangoes only), CS 256-2007.