To provide a coating composition which sufficiently exhibits deodorizing performance having excellent immediate effectiveness and durability against formaldehyde and a tobacco odor and can improve safety and working atmospheric conditions and, at the same time, can secure good storage stability.

The coating composition comprises an adsorbent obtained by allowing an adsorption composition containing a tetravalent metal phosphate and a divalent metal hydroxide to carry sulfamic acid or a sulfamic acid salt.