Calcium Carbonate - Precipitated Calcium Carbonate, Non-toxic Pharmaceutical Grade With Gras Status

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PCC is a purified, synthetic or refined Calcium Carbonate. It stands for Precipitated Calcium Carbonate. PCC has same chemical formula as other Calcium Carbonates like chalk, marble and limestone. The carbon, oxygen and calcium atoms can arrange themselves in three diverse ways in order to create three different calcium carbonate minerals. One of the most common arrangement is for both ground and precipitated calcium carboneates is the hexagonal form, which is acknowledged as Calcite. Various calcite crystal forms can be made: prismatic, scalenohedral and rhombohedra. Apart from the most common arrangement, there is also a less common arrangement that is called aragonite. It has a clustered or discrete needle orthorhombic crystal structure. Generally unstable and rare is the vaterite calcium carbonate mineral.

Calcium Carbonates that also include PCC, are non-toxic. The Food and Drug Administration of USA has affirmed Calcium Carbonate to be GRAS. It means that Calcium Carbonate is generally recognized as safe. If PCC meets the purity requirements then it can be used as a pharmaceutical, direct food additive and as an indirect additive in paper products, which come in contact with food. Similar approvals and acceptances exist all over the world where PCCs are used extensively in these applications.