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| align=center | <ref group="note" name="Al">Only in egg white (<&nbsp;30&nbsp;mg/kg as total Al) or in candied, crystallized and glacé fruit and vegetables (<&nbsp;200&nbsp;mg/kg as total Al): Annex&nbsp;IV, Directive&nbsp;95/2/EC.</ref>
 
| align=center | <ref group="note" name="Al">Only in egg white (<&nbsp;30&nbsp;mg/kg as total Al) or in candied, crystallized and glacé fruit and vegetables (<&nbsp;200&nbsp;mg/kg as total Al): Annex&nbsp;IV, Directive&nbsp;95/2/EC.</ref>
 
| align=center style="color: #ff0000;" | ✖
 
| align=center style="color: #ff0000;" | ✖
| align=center style="color: #008000;" | '''G'''
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| align=center | <span style="color: #008000;">'''G'''</span><br/><ref group="note">182.1127</ref>
 
| align=center style="color: #008000;" | ✔
 
| align=center style="color: #008000;" | ✔
 
|-
 
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Aluminium sulfate]]  
+
| colspan=2 | [[Aluminium sodium sulfate]]  
| align=center | 520
+
| align=center | 521
 
| align=center | <ref group="note" name="Al"/>
 
| align=center | <ref group="note" name="Al"/>
 
| align=center style="color: #ff0000;" | ✖
 
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| align=center style="color: #008000;" | ✔
 
| align=center style="color: #008000;" | ✔
 
|-
 
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Aluminium sodium sulfate]]  
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| colspan=2 | [[Aluminium sulfate]]  
| align=center | 521
+
| align=center | 520
 
| align=center | <ref group="note" name="Al"/>
 
| align=center | <ref group="note" name="Al"/>
 
| align=center style="color: #ff0000;" | ✖
 
| align=center style="color: #ff0000;" | ✖
| align=center style="color: #008000;" | '''G'''
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| align=center | <span style="color: #008000;">'''G'''</span><br/><ref group="note">Part 582 - Animal feed; REG, <2.0% in combo. w/<2.0% of 1-octenyl succinic anhydride -In modifying food starch -172.892; FEED,GMP/GRAS - 582.1125</ref>
 
| align=center style="color: #008000;" | ✔
 
| align=center style="color: #008000;" | ✔
 
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| align=center | 509
 
| align=center | 509
 
| align=center | &nbsp;
 
| align=center | &nbsp;
| align=center | &nbsp;
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| align=center style="color: #008000;" |
| align=center | &nbsp;
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| align=center | <span style="color: #008000;">'''G'''</span><br/><ref group="note">184.1193, Parts 131, 133, 150, 155 & 156 in Evaporated Milk; Cheese & Cheese Products; Part 133; VET, REG, For use in mastitis formulations for treating dairy animals - 526.820</ref>
| align=center | &nbsp;
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| align=center style="color: #008000;" |
 
|-
 
|-
 
| colspan=2 | [[Calcium citrate]]s  
 
| colspan=2 | [[Calcium citrate]]s  
 
| align=center | 333
 
| align=center | 333
| colspan=4 | &nbsp;
+
| align=center | &nbsp;
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| align=center style="color: #008000;" | ✔
 +
| align=center | <span style="color: #008000;">'''G'''</span><br/><ref group="note">Part 133, Process Cheese, Cheese Food & Spread, Part 150, Art Sw Fruit Jelly Preserves & Jam, Parts 155 & 156, certain canned vegetables; Part 31; Part 582 - Animal feeds; DS/NUTR, GRAS,GMP - 182.5195, 182.8195</ref>
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| align=center style="color: #008000;" | ✔
 
|-
 
|-
 
| rowspan=3 | &nbsp;
 
| rowspan=3 | &nbsp;
 
| [[Monocalcium citrate]]  
 
| [[Monocalcium citrate]]  
 
| align=center | 333(i)
 
| align=center | 333(i)
| colspan=4 | &nbsp;
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| align=center | &nbsp;
 +
| align=center | &nbsp;
 +
| align=center | &nbsp;
 +
| align=center | &nbsp;
 
|-
 
|-
 
| [[Dicalcium citrate]]  
 
| [[Dicalcium citrate]]  
 
| align=center | 333(ii)
 
| align=center | 333(ii)
| colspan=4 | &nbsp;
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| align=center | &nbsp;
 +
| align=center | &nbsp;
 +
| align=center | &nbsp;
 +
| align=center | &nbsp;
 
|-
 
|-
 
| [[Tricalcium citrate]]  
 
| [[Tricalcium citrate]]  
 
| align=center | 333(iii)
 
| align=center | 333(iii)
| colspan=4 | &nbsp;
+
| align=center | &nbsp;
 +
| align=center | &nbsp;
 +
| align=center | &nbsp;
 +
| align=center | &nbsp;
 
|-
 
|-
 
| colspan=2 | [[Calcium gluconate]]  
 
| colspan=2 | [[Calcium gluconate]]  
 
| align=center | 578
 
| align=center | 578
| colspan=4 | &nbsp;
+
| align=center | &nbsp;
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| align=center style="color: #008000;" | ✔
 +
| align=center | &nbsp;
 +
| align=center style="color: #008000;" | ✔
 
|-
 
|-
 
| colspan=2 | [[Calcium hydroxide]]  
 
| colspan=2 | [[Calcium hydroxide]]  
 
| align=center | 526
 
| align=center | 526
| colspan=4 | &nbsp;
+
| align=center | &nbsp;
 +
| align=center style="color: #008000;" | ✔
 +
| align=center | &nbsp;
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| align=center style="color: #008000;" | ✔
 
|-
 
|-
 
| colspan=2 | [[Calcium phosphate]]s  
 
| colspan=2 | [[Calcium phosphate]]s  
 
| align=center | 341
 
| align=center | 341
| colspan=4 | &nbsp;
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| align=center | &nbsp;
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| align=center style="color: #008000;" | ✔
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| align=center | &nbsp;
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| align=center | &nbsp;
 
|-
 
|-
 
| rowspan=3 | &nbsp;
 
| rowspan=3 | &nbsp;
 
| [[Monocalcium dihydrogen phosphate]]  
 
| [[Monocalcium dihydrogen phosphate]]  
 
| align=center | 341(i)
 
| align=center | 341(i)
| colspan=4 | &nbsp;
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| align=center | &nbsp;
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| align=center | &nbsp;
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| align=center | &nbsp;
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| align=center style="color: #008000;" | ✔
 
|-
 
|-
 
| [[Calcium hydrogen phosphate]]  
 
| [[Calcium hydrogen phosphate]]  
 
| align=center | 341(ii)
 
| align=center | 341(ii)
| colspan=4 | &nbsp;
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| align=center | &nbsp;
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| align=center | &nbsp;
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| align=center | &nbsp;
 +
| align=center style="color: #008000;" | ✔
 
|-
 
|-
 
| [[Tricalcium phosphate]]  
 
| [[Tricalcium phosphate]]  
 
| align=center | 341(iii)
 
| align=center | 341(iii)
| colspan=4 | &nbsp;
+
| align=center | &nbsp;
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| align=center | &nbsp;
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| align=center | &nbsp;
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| align=center style="color: #008000;" | ✔
 
|-
 
|-
 
| colspan=2 | [[Calcium sulfate]]  
 
| colspan=2 | [[Calcium sulfate]]  
 
| align=center | 516
 
| align=center | 516
| colspan=4 | &nbsp;
+
| align=center | &nbsp;
 +
| align=center style="color: #008000;" | ✔
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| align=center | &nbsp;
 +
| align=center style="color: #008000;" | ✔
 
|-
 
|-
 
| colspan=2 | [[Curdlan]]  
 
| colspan=2 | [[Curdlan]]  
 
| align=center | 424
 
| align=center | 424
| colspan=4 | &nbsp;
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| align=center | &nbsp;
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| align=center | &nbsp;
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| align=center | &nbsp;
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| align=center | &nbsp;
 
|-
 
|-
 
| colspan=2 | [[Magnesium chloride]]  
 
| colspan=2 | [[Magnesium chloride]]  
 
| align=center | 511
 
| align=center | 511
| colspan=4 | &nbsp;
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| align=center | &nbsp;
 +
| align=center style="color: #008000;" | ✔
 +
| align=center | &nbsp;
 +
| align=center style="color: #008000;" | ✔
 
|-
 
|-
 
| colspan=2 | [[Magnesium gluconate]]  
 
| colspan=2 | [[Magnesium gluconate]]  
 
| align=center | 580
 
| align=center | 580
| colspan=4 | &nbsp;
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| align=center | &nbsp;
 +
| align=center style="color: #ff0000;" | ✖
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| align=center | &nbsp;
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| align=center style="color: #ff0000;" | ✖
 
|-
 
|-
 
| colspan=2 | [[Magnesium sulfate]]  
 
| colspan=2 | [[Magnesium sulfate]]  
 
| align=center | 518
 
| align=center | 518
| colspan=4 | &nbsp;
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| align=center | &nbsp;
 +
| align=center style="color: #008000;" | ✔
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| align=center | &nbsp;
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| align=center style="color: #008000;" | ✔
 
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Revision as of 13:45, 8 December 2009

A firming agent is a food additive that makes or keeps tissues of fruit or vegetables firm and crisp, or interacts with gelling agents to produce or strengthen a gel. They typically act by precipitating residual pectin.

Codex Alimentarius list

Codex Alimentarius name INS
number
Authorizations
EU AU-NZ USA CAN
Aluminium ammonium sulfate 523 [note 1] G
[note 2]
Aluminium sodium sulfate 521 [note 1] G
Aluminium sulfate 520 [note 1] G
[note 3]
Calcium chloride 509   G
[note 4]
Calcium citrates 333   G
[note 5]
  Monocalcium citrate 333(i)        
Dicalcium citrate 333(ii)        
Tricalcium citrate 333(iii)        
Calcium gluconate 578    
Calcium hydroxide 526    
Calcium phosphates 341      
  Monocalcium dihydrogen phosphate 341(i)      
Calcium hydrogen phosphate 341(ii)      
Tricalcium phosphate 341(iii)      
Calcium sulfate 516    
Curdlan 424        
Magnesium chloride 511    
Magnesium gluconate 580    
Magnesium sulfate 518    

Notes and references

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Only in egg white (< 30 mg/kg as total Al) or in candied, crystallized and glacé fruit and vegetables (< 200 mg/kg as total Al): Annex IV, Directive 95/2/EC.
  2. 182.1127
  3. Part 582 - Animal feed; REG, <2.0% in combo. w/<2.0% of 1-octenyl succinic anhydride -In modifying food starch -172.892; FEED,GMP/GRAS - 582.1125
  4. 184.1193, Parts 131, 133, 150, 155 & 156 in Evaporated Milk; Cheese & Cheese Products; Part 133; VET, REG, For use in mastitis formulations for treating dairy animals - 526.820
  5. Part 133, Process Cheese, Cheese Food & Spread, Part 150, Art Sw Fruit Jelly Preserves & Jam, Parts 155 & 156, certain canned vegetables; Part 31; Part 582 - Animal feeds; DS/NUTR, GRAS,GMP - 182.5195, 182.8195

References

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