The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), Life Sciences Research Office and FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) discussed the toxicity profile of Calcium Gluconate. These reports are summarized in a GRAS Notification for (oral) Calcium Gluconate as a Food Supplement and the subsequent FDA Response to the GRAS notice. However, it is noted that the intendedroute of the Calcium Gluconate Injection, is intravenous, not oral. FASEB concluded that “Evidence suggests that any possible toxicity of gluconate salts is a function of the cation rather than of the gluconate portion of these substances.”