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  "id": "https://foodadditiveindex.com/additives/ammonium-carbonate",
  "slug": "ammonium-carbonate",
  "name": "Ammonium carbonate",
  "identifiers": {
    "e_number": null,
    "ins_number": "503(i)",
    "cas_number": "8000-73-5",
    "inchikey": "YNSUIDWLZCFLML-UHFFFAOYSA-N",
    "pubchem_cid": 24660
  },
  "functional_class": "Acidity regulator",
  "summary": "Ammonium carbonate is a raising agent, the baker's ammonia of old recipes. It works without acid and leaves no residue, so it is still used for thin, crisp biscuits — but only for those, because in a moist cake the ammonia cannot escape and the taste stays.",
  "derivation_summary": "Produced by reacting ammonia with carbon dioxide. It decomposes on heating to ammonia, carbon dioxide and water, all of which leave a thin biscuit as gas.",
  "regulatory_status": [
    {
      "jurisdiction": "US",
      "jurisdiction_name": "United States",
      "authority": "Food and Drug Administration",
      "status": "permitted",
      "status_label": "Permitted",
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        {
          "status": "permitted",
          "food_category": null,
          "max_level": null,
          "max_level_unit": null,
          "conditions": null,
          "effective_from": null,
          "citation": {
            "ref": "21 CFR 184.1137",
            "url": "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/section-184.1137"
          },
          "source": "ecfr",
          "retrieved_at": "2026-09-07T18:25:51.549Z"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "CODEX",
      "jurisdiction_name": "Codex Alimentarius",
      "authority": "Codex Alimentarius Commission / JECFA",
      "status": "permitted_with_conditions",
      "status_label": "Permitted, with conditions",
      "provision_count": 4,
      "provisions": [
        {
          "status": "permitted",
          "food_category": null,
          "max_level": null,
          "max_level_unit": "GMP",
          "conditions": null,
          "effective_from": "1999",
          "citation": {
            "ref": "CXS 192-1995 Table Three, INS 503(i)",
            "url": "https://www.fao.org/fao-who-codexalimentarius/codex-texts/dbs/gsfa/en/"
          },
          "source": "gsfa",
          "retrieved_at": "2026-09-07T07:54:15.059Z"
        },
        {
          "status": "permitted_with_conditions",
          "food_category": {
            "system": "codex",
            "code": "01.2.1.2",
            "name": "Fermented milks (plain), heat-treated after fermentation"
          },
          "max_level": null,
          "max_level_unit": "GMP",
          "conditions": "GSFA notes: 630",
          "effective_from": "2024",
          "citation": {
            "ref": "CXS 192-1995 Table One, INS 503(i), food category 01.2.1.2",
            "url": "https://www.fao.org/fao-who-codexalimentarius/codex-texts/dbs/gsfa/en/"
          },
          "source": "gsfa",
          "retrieved_at": "2026-09-07T07:54:15.059Z"
        },
        {
          "status": "permitted_with_conditions",
          "food_category": {
            "system": "codex",
            "code": "09.2.2",
            "name": "Frozen battered fish, fish fillets and fish products, including molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms"
          },
          "max_level": null,
          "max_level_unit": "GMP",
          "conditions": "GSFA notes: 41",
          "effective_from": "2013",
          "citation": {
            "ref": "CXS 192-1995 Table One, INS 503(i), food category 09.2.2",
            "url": "https://www.fao.org/fao-who-codexalimentarius/codex-texts/dbs/gsfa/en/"
          },
          "source": "gsfa",
          "retrieved_at": "2026-09-07T07:54:15.059Z"
        },
        {
          "status": "permitted_with_conditions",
          "food_category": {
            "system": "codex",
            "code": "13.2",
            "name": "Complementary foods for infants and young children"
          },
          "max_level": null,
          "max_level_unit": "GMP",
          "conditions": "GSFA notes: 248 & XS73",
          "effective_from": "2023",
          "citation": {
            "ref": "CXS 192-1995 Table One, INS 503(i), food category 13.2",
            "url": "https://www.fao.org/fao-who-codexalimentarius/codex-texts/dbs/gsfa/en/"
          },
          "source": "gsfa",
          "retrieved_at": "2026-09-07T07:54:15.059Z"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "names": [
    {
      "name": "8000-73-5",
      "type": "cas",
      "source": "ecfr"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ammonium bicarbonate - ammonium carbamate",
      "type": "common",
      "source": "pubchem"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ammonium bicarbonate-ammonium carbamate",
      "type": "common",
      "source": "pubchem"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ammonium carbamate hydrogen carbonate (2/1/1)",
      "type": "common",
      "source": "pubchem"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ammonium carbamate, mixt. with ammonium bicarbonate",
      "type": "common",
      "source": "pubchem"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ammonium carbonate (NF)",
      "type": "common",
      "source": "pubchem"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ammonium carbonate [NF]",
      "type": "common",
      "source": "pubchem"
    },
    {
      "name": "Carbamic acid, monoammonium salt, mixt. with ammonium carbonate",
      "type": "common",
      "source": "pubchem"
    },
    {
      "name": "Carbonic acid, ammonium salt (1:1), mixt. with ammonium carbamate (1:1)",
      "type": "common",
      "source": "pubchem"
    },
    {
      "name": "Carbonic acid, monoammonium salt, mixt. with ammonium carbamate",
      "type": "common",
      "source": "pubchem"
    },
    {
      "name": "diazanium;hydrogen carbonate;carbamate",
      "type": "common",
      "source": "pubchem"
    },
    {
      "name": "Kohlensaures Ammonium Carbaminsaures Ammonium",
      "type": "common",
      "source": "pubchem"
    },
    {
      "name": "UGAM",
      "type": "common",
      "source": "pubchem"
    },
    {
      "name": "503(i)",
      "type": "ins",
      "source": "gsfa"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ammonium carbonate",
      "type": "label",
      "source": "ecfr"
    }
  ],
  "hazard_reference_values": [],
  "sources": [
    {
      "key": "ecfr",
      "name": "Electronic Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21",
      "publisher": "U.S. Government Publishing Office / National Archives",
      "licence": "Public domain",
      "url": "https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-31/title-21.xml",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-09-07T18:25:51.549Z"
    },
    {
      "key": "gsfa",
      "name": "Codex General Standard for Food Additives (CXS 192-1995)",
      "publisher": "Codex Alimentarius Commission (FAO/WHO)",
      "licence": "FAO terms — non-commercial use with attribution",
      "url": "https://www.fao.org/fao-who-codexalimentarius/codex-texts/dbs/gsfa/en/",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-09-07T07:54:15.059Z"
    }
  ],
  "citation_policy": "Cite as: Food Additive Index, \"Ammonium carbonate\", https://foodadditiveindex.com/additives/ammonium-carbonate. This site reports regulatory status and does not rate additives.",
  "generated_at": "2026-09-08T00:09:38.408Z"
}