Carbon Dioxide in Food & Beverages

Carbon dioxide is principally sold in the developed markets to the food and beverage industries. Food grade standards are somewhat vague at times, however, beverage applications demand strict quality standards.

Over the years, the food industry has created varying levels of definitions for CO2 standards, many companies have adopted the Compressed Gas Association (CGA) ‘I’ grade definition with respect to limiting the impurities of the CO2 content. In terms of handling CO2 from the point of production to the point of application, for general food processing applications this generally calls for many common-sense protocols relating to maintaining clean storage, transfer and transportation vessels, hoses used in transfer and delivery, and little more. However, beverage related service is altogether another story…