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Sodium erythorbate (Sodium isoascorbate) (316)

Synonyms: Sodium Isoascorbate

Functional Classes: Antioxidant

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GSFA Provisions for Sodium erythorbate (Sodium isoascorbate)

N°

Food Category

Max Level

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

280: For use in pickled radish only.

N°

04.2.2.7

Food Category

Max Level

GMP

Notes

280: For use in pickled radish 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

09.2.1.0

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

09.2.5.0

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

GMP

382: For use only in smoked fish and smoke-flavoured fish products conforming to the Standard for Smoked Fish, Smoked-flavoured 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).

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).

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

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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 erythorbate (Sodium isoascorbate) 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 erythorbate (Sodium isoascorbate) 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 erythorbate (Sodium isoascorbate) 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.

Sodium erythorbate (Sodium isoascorbate) 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 256-2007.