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Regulations and standards of formula
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United States |
Commercial Item Description—Salt Substitutes [44] |
1997 |
The US Department of Agriculture |
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Classification: the salt substitutes shall conform to the following list which shall be specified in the solicitation, contract, or purchase order:
All ingredients, including food grade bulking and anticaking agents, used in the preparation of the salt substitutes shall be of Food Chemicals Codex purity or US Pharmacopeia-National Formulary quality. The active ingredient in the salt substitutes shall be potassium chloride. Type II salt substitutes shall include L-lysine. The salt substitutes may contain flavor enhancers and anticaking agents such as, but not limited to monopotassium glutamate, glutamic acid hydrochloride, tricalcium phosphate, and calcium stearate.
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China |
Light Industry Standard of the People’s Republic of China QB/t 2019-2020 Low Sodium Salt [36] |
2020 |
Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China |
This standard specifies the sensory, physical, and chemical properties of; food additives used in; nutritional fortification of; and contaminants of salt substitutes. The dry basis of sodium chloride and potassium chloride should reach 65.0-80.0 g/100 g and 20.0-35.0 g/100 g, respectively.
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India |
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India) Notification F. No. Stds/03/Notification (LS)/ FSSAI-2017 [45] |
2017 |
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India) |
Salt substitutes may contain:(a) Colloidal silica or calcium silicate: not more than 1% m/m of the salt substitute mixture, individually or in combination.(b) Diluents: safe and suitable nutritive foods as normally consumed namely, sugars, cereal flour. The addition of iodine-containing compounds to salt substitutes shall be as per the Foods Safety and Standards Regulations, 2011. The sodium content of salt substitutes shall be not more than 120 mg/100 g of the salt substitute mixture. -
The composition of salt substitutes shall be as follows:
Potassium sulphate, potassium, calcium or ammonium salts of adipic; glutamic; carbonic; succinic; lactic; tartaric; citric; acetic; or hydro-, chloric, or orthophosphoric acids, and/or good manufacturing practice, except that phosphorus not to exceed 4% m/m and NH4+ 3% m/m of the salt substitute mixture Magnesium salts of adipic; glutamic; carbonic; citric; succinic; acetic; tartaric; lactic; or hydro-, chloric, or orthophosphoric acids, mixed with other Mg-free salt substitutes as listed in 6.(1) (a), 6.(1) (c) and 6.(1) (d), and/or Mg++ to be not more than 20% m/m of the total of the cations K+, Ca++and NH4+ present in the salt substitute mixture and phosphorus not to exceed 4% m/m of the salt substitute mixture Choline salts of acetic, carbonic, lactic, tartaric, citric, or hydrochloric acids, mixed with other choline-free salt substitutes as listed in 6.(1) (a), 6.(1) (b) and 6.(1) (d), and/or the choline content not to exceed 3% m/m of the salt substitute mixture Free adipic, glutamic, citric, lactic, or malic acids—good manufacturing practice
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Regulations and standards of labeling
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Canada |
Labelling Requirements for Salt [46] |
2019 |
Canadian Food Inspection Agency |
Salt substitutes do not have a prescribed standard and are generally a sodium reduced or sodium free alternative. Salt substitutes usually contain potassium chloride. Table salt substitutes, while not required to, are permitted to contain added iodine.
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Regulations and standards of product classification
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Canada |
Goods and Services Identification Number (GSIN)—Salt Substitute [47] |
2018 |
Public Services and Procurement Canada |
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