Overview

Listing and annotation: Potassium chloride

Use: As a natural non-agricultural product allowed as an ingredient/processing aid in or on processed products labeled as "organic" or "made with (specified organic ingredients/food groups)".

Common applications: A colorless, crystalline, odorless powder with a salty taste. A yeast food used in the brewing industry to improve brewing and fermentation and in the jelling industries. Used a substitute for sodium chloride in low-sodium dietary foods.

Reference: 7 CFR 205.605(a) 21 CFR 184.1622

Date listed: 2002

Sunset Date: 6/27/2020 (original sunset 2022)

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