NITROUS OXIDE

Overview

Chemical Names
DINITROGEN MONOXIDE
Synonyms
NITROGEN OXIDE; DINITROGEN MONOXIDE
CAS number
10024-97-2
INS
942
Functional Class
Food Additives
ANTIOXIDANT
FOAMING_AGENT
PROPELLANT
INS matches
942

Evaluations

Evaluation year: 2000

ADI:
NOT SPECIFIED

Comments:
At its twenty-ninth meeting (1985), the Committee concluded that use of nitrous oxide as a propellant for food was acceptable. At its fifty-fifth meeting (2000), the Committee was requested by the Codex Committee on Food Additives and Contaminants to evaluate the additional use of nitrous oxide as a packaging gas, but the Committee could not carry out this request because no information on intake of nitrous oxide for such use was available.
Meeting:
29
Specs Code:
R
Report: 
TRS 901-JECFA 55/17
Tox Monograph: 
NOT PREPARED
Specification: 
COMPENDIUM ADDENDUM 8/FNP 52 Add.8/79; FAO JECFA Monographs 1 vol.2/445
Previous Years:
1985, TRS 733-JECFA 29/40, FNP 34-JECFA 29/157 (COMPENDIUM/1009). NOT PREPARED. ACCEPTABLE (THE FOOD USE OF NITROUS OXIDE AS A PROPELLANT IS ACCEPTABLE). AC. R 1984, FNP 31/2-JECFA 28/67. R 1978, TRS 631-JECFA 22/23, FNP 7-JECFA 22/46, NOT PREPARED. NO
1985, TRS 733-JECFA 29/40, FNP 34-JECFA 29/157 (COMPENDIUM/1009). NOT PREPARED. ACCEPTABLE (THE FOOD USE OF NITROUS OXIDE AS A PROPELLANT IS ACCEPTABLE). AC. R 1984, FNP 31/2-JECFA 28/67. R 1978, TRS 631-JECFA 22/23, FNP 7-JECFA 22/46, NOT PREPARED. NO