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Glossary

Nitrogen (941)

Functional Classes: Foaming agent, Packaging gas, Propellant

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GSFA Provisions for Nitrogen

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.

59: For use as a packaging gas 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.

59: For use as a packaging gas only.

13.2.0.0

Complementary foods for infants and young children

GMP

59: For use as a packaging gas only.

N°

13.2.0.0

Food Category

Complementary foods for infants and young children

Max Level

GMP

Notes

59: For use as a packaging gas only.

01.2.1.2

Fermented milks (plain), heat-treated after fermentation

GMP

59: For use as a packaging gas only.

N°

01.2.1.2

Food Category

Fermented milks (plain), heat-treated after fermentation

Max Level

GMP

Notes

59: For use as a packaging gas only.

01.1.1.0

Fluid milk (plain)

GMP

59: For use as a packaging gas only.

N°

01.1.1.0

Food Category

Fluid milk (plain)

Max Level

GMP

Notes

59: For use as a packaging gas only.

13.1.3.0

Formulae for special medical purposes for infants

GMP

59: For use as a packaging gas only.

N°

13.1.3.0

Food Category

Formulae for special medical purposes for infants

Max Level

GMP

Notes

59: For use as a packaging gas only.

13.1.1.0

Infant formulae

GMP

59: For use as a packaging gas only.

N°

13.1.1.0

Food Category

Infant formulae

Max Level

GMP

Notes

59: For use as a packaging gas only.

01.1.2.0

Other fluid milk (plain)

GMP

59: For use as a packaging gas only.

N°

01.1.2.0

Food Category

Other fluid milk (plain)

Max Level

GMP

Notes

59: For use as a packaging gas only.

04.1.1.3

Peeled or cut fresh fruit

GMP

59: For use as a packaging gas only.

N°

04.1.1.3

Food Category

Peeled or cut fresh fruit

Max Level

GMP

Notes

59: For use as a packaging gas only.

01.2.2.0

Renneted milk (plain)

GMP

59: For use as a packaging gas only.

N°

01.2.2.0

Food Category

Renneted milk (plain)

Max Level

GMP

Notes

59: For use as a packaging gas only.

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).

59: For use as a packaging gas 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).

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

278: For use in whipped cream and cream packed under pressure only.

59: For use as a packaging gas only.

N°

01.4.2.0

Food Category

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

Max Level

GMP

Notes

278: For use in whipped cream and cream packed under pressure only.

59: For use as a packaging gas only.

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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

Nitrogen 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, Nitrogen 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.

Nitrogen is acceptable in foods conforming to the following commodity standards: CS 221-2001 (for whipped products only), CS 275-1973.

Nitrogen is a: Packaging gas.
Any Packaging gas listed in Table 3 can be acceptable for use in all products conforming to CS 117-1981, CS 256-2007.