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Food Additives

Functional Classes

Glossary

Sodium ascorbate (301)

Functional Classes: Antioxidant, Flour treatment agent

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GSFA Provisions for Sodium ascorbate

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.

13.2.0.0

Complementary foods for infants and young children

500 mg/kg

317: As ascorbic acid.

319: Within the limit for sodium listed in the Codex Standard for Canned Baby Food (CODEX STAN 73-1981) for foods corresponding to that standard : singly or in combination with other sodium containing additives.

320: Within the limit for sodium listed in the Codex Standard for Processed Cereal-based Foods for Infants and Young Children (CODEX STAN 74-1981) for foods corresponding to that standard : singly or in combination with other sodium containing additives.

N°

13.2.0.0

Food Category

Complementary foods for infants and young children

Max Level

500 mg/kg

Notes

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.

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

06.2.1.0

Flours

300 mg/kg

N°

06.2.1.0

Food Category

Flours

Max Level

300 mg/kg

Notes

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).

316: Within the limit for sodium specified in the Codex Standard for Follow-up Formulae (CODEX STAN 156-1987): singly or in combination with other sodium containing additives.

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

06.4.1.0

Fresh pastas and noodles and like products

GMP

N°

06.4.1.0

Food Category

Fresh pastas and noodles and like products

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

01.1.2.0

Other fluid milk (plain)

GMP

410: Excluding lactose reduced milks.

N°

01.1.2.0

Food Category

Other fluid milk (plain)

Max Level

GMP

Notes

410: Excluding lactose reduced milks.

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

04.2.1.3

Peeled, cut or shredded fresh vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweeds, and nuts and seeds

GMP

N°

04.2.1.3

Food Category

Peeled, cut or shredded fresh vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweeds, and nuts and seeds

Max Level

GMP

Notes

09.2.0.0

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

GMP

307: Excluding raw squid.

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.

437: Excluding use in smoke-dried fish conforming to the Standard for Smoked Fish, SmokeFlavoured Fish and Smoke-Dried Fish (CODEX STAN 311-2013).

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).

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

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).

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).

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

N°

09.2.0.0

Food Category

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

Max Level

GMP

Notes

12.1.2.0

Salt Substitutes

GMP

314: For use in yeast extracts.

N°

12.1.2.0

Food Category

Salt Substitutes

Max Level

GMP

Notes

314: For use in yeast extracts.

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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

Sodium 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, Sodium 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.

Sodium ascorbate is acceptable in foods conforming to the following commodity standards: CS 88-1981, CS 89-1981, CS 96-1981, CS 97-1981, CS 98-1981, CS 251-2006, CS 275-1973.

Sodium 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.