FAO Nutrition Meetings
    Report Series No. 40A,B,C
    WHO/Food Add./67.29




    TOXICOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF SOME
    ANTIMICROBIALS, ANTIOXIDANTS, EMULSIFIERS,
    STABILIZERS, FLOUR-TREATMENT AGENTS, ACIDS AND BASES





    The content of this document is the result of the deliberations of the
    Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives which met at Rome,
    13-20 December, 19651 Geneva, 11-18 October, 19662




                   

    1 Ninth Report of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food
    Additives, FAO Nutrition Meetings Report Series, 1966 No. 40; 
    Wld Hlth Org. techn. Rep. Ser., 1966, 339

    2 Tenth Report of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food
    Additives, FAO Nutrition Meetings Report Series, 1967, in press; 


    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
    World Health Organization
    1967


    CALCIUM IODATE

    Chemical name                Calcium iodate monohydrate

    Empirical formula            Ca(IO3)2.H2O

    Molecular weight             407.90

    Definition                   Calcium iodate monohydrate contains not
                                 less than 99 per cent. and not more than
                                 the equivalent or 101 per cent. of
                                 Ca(IO3)2H2O.

    Description                  Calcium iodate monohydrate occurs as a
                                 white powder and may have a slight
                                 odour.

    Uses                         As a rapid oxidizing agent used for
                                 strengthening flour.

    Evaluation

         There is no reason to believe that calcium iodate differs
    toxicologically from potassium iodate. For the reasons stated under
    potassium iodate no estimate was made of the acceptable level of
    treatment of flour.
    

    See Also:
       Toxicological Abbreviations