Starting this year, there are new things you shouldn't do when making whipped cream at a cafe or restaurant.



The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety announced that it would completely prohibit the sale or use of nitrous oxide in small containers (cartridges) from January 1, 2021.



Accordingly, coffee shops that used nitrogen dioxide-containing cartridges to make whipped cream by attaching cartridges to the whipping machine will no longer be able to use this method.




Nitrous oxide sold as a food additive must be filled and distributed in high-pressure metal containers of 2.5L or more, and stores must receive nitrous oxide gas from a supplier authorized under the'High Pressure Gas Safety Management Act'.

Products that were purchased last year and left over should not be used or stored in the store.

However, you can continue to use the spray product form that already contains cream and nitrous oxide.



Why did the Food and Drug Administration take this action?




Since 2017, accidents in which nitrogen dioxide is directly inhaled as a hallucinogenic substance by putting nitrogen dioxide into a balloon under the name of'Happy Balloon' has continuously occurred and has emerged as a social problem.

Most of these nitrous oxide inhalation accidents were caused by cartridge products that can easily buy carbon dioxide on the Internet and are easy to carry, and to cope with this point, a solution was found.



Nitrous oxide filled in a high-pressure gas container of 2.5L or more can be purchased commercially at food service establishments such as coffee shops, but personal purchase is virtually difficult, so the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety believes that it can solve many of the misuse problems.




In addition, as a result of a trial conducted at some coffee shops, it was explained that the connection and separation between the high-pressure gas container and the whipping machine was simple, and there was no difference in quality from the whipped cream made with the existing cartridge.



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(Photo = Press release from Ministry of Food and Drug Safety)