Calcium Silicate Food Additive

Food additives legislation applies to all food businesses across the uk.

Calcium silicate food additive. Typically manufactured by combining slaked quicklime with silica and stirring in a vessel at elevated temperature and pressure. This page contains an index of individual food additives or food additive groups indicated in uppercase. E553a i magnesium silicate. Calcium silicate an inorganic ingredient with low bulk density and high water absorption commonly used as an anticaking agent and carrier in food the two main applications are in table salts and supplements.

It is to distinguish from talc e553b which is a naturally occurring form of hydrous magnesium silicate. Other food products where calcium silicate are present. No known adverse effects. Calcium aluminium silicate 556 calcium ascorbate 302 calcium carbonate 170 i calcium chloride 509 calcium di l glutamate 623 calcium gluconate 578.

For example anticaking agents are popularly used in non food items like road salt fertilizers cosmetics synthetic detergents and in other such manufacturing applications. Magnesium silicate or more correctly called synthetic magnesium silicate used as an anticaking agent in food. Calcium silicate casio3 a common anti caking agent which is added to table salt etc. E552 calcium silicate.

The european food additive number for it is e 553 a i. Recommended for consumption by children maybe. One experiment in rats showed significant increase in the incidence of pleural sarcomas after calcium silicate fibers were implanted. Although they are food additives anti caking agents have other applications too.

Gsfa table 3 provisions calcium silicate 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 silicate could also be used in heat treated butter milk of food category 01 1 1 and spices of food category 12 2 1. Indirect food additives 21 cfr parts 175 176 177 part 178 except that sanitizing agents for food processing equipment as listed in 178 1010 are included in the food additives list. As a dietary supplement it does not help but in natural foods a valuable content. Adsorbs both water and oil.

Derived from limestone and diatomaceous earth the silicified skeletons of diatoms a single celled plankton antacid glaze polishing release dusting agent in chewing gum coating agent on rice.