Carbon dioxide
Drug ingredientThis drug ingredient has classified U.S. production volumes. EPA withholds the number as confidential business information.
US ProductionCBI
Confidential Business Information. The EPA withholds this volume because publishing it could reveal the reporting company's trade secrets.
Import Value$29M
Top SourceCanada 26%
The EPA did not publish how much of this chemical companies made or imported, or marked that amount confidential. Without that volume, ACID cannot calculate import dependency.
Where It Comes From
Customs basis: HS 281121 · exact
Source Countries
Country of origin for US imports, from Census customs data (2023).
CA 26%CanadaIL 22%IsraelTW 16%TaiwanHU 9%HungaryAT 9%Austria
- Poland
- United Kingdom
- Germany
- Czech Republic
- Sweden
- Vietnam
- India
- Spain
- Norway
- Hong Kong
- South Africa
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Greece
- New Zealand
EPA-registered manufacturers (53)
Companies that report making or importing this chemical to the EPA. Registration is US-centric and does not indicate import origin.
Kuraray · JP Japan
Nutrien · CA Canada
Shell · GB United Kingdom
Advansix
Aes
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Agrium U.S
Air Products And Chemicals
Archer Daniels Midland
Big River Resources
Bridgeport Ethanol
Central Indiana Ethanol
Cf Industries Holdings
Chevron
Conestoga Energy Partners
Cvr Energy
Dakota Gasification
Denbury Onshore
Dyno Nobel
Dyno Nobel St. Helens
Ethanol2000 Llp Dba Poet Biorefining - Bingham Lake
ExxonMobil
Flint Hills Resources
Guardian Lima
Icm
Indorama Ventures Xylenes & Pta
Kansas Ethanol
Koch Industries
Kuraray America
Linde
Lsb Industries
Lyondell Chemical
Marathon Petroleum
Mercuria Investments Us
Messer North America
Mgp Ingredients
Pacific Ethanol
Par Pacific Holdings
Pbf Energy
Phillips 66
Poet Biorefining
Poet Biorefining - Laddonia
Poet Holding
Potash Holding
Shell Chemical
Sterling Ethanol
Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas
The Andersons Marathon Holdings
The Gas
The Williams Companies
Valero Energy
Western New York Energy
Wrb Refining Lp Wood River Refinery
Yuma Ethanol
EPA-registered importers (5)
Companies that report making or importing this chemical to the EPA. Registration is US-centric and does not indicate import origin.
Basf Se · DE Germany
Basf
Denbury Onshore
Linde
Wugona
38 FDA-registered drug labelers
A-OX Welding Supply, LLC
Aero All Gas Company
AGL Inhalation Therapy Co.
Air Source Industries Inc
AIRGAS THERAPEUTICS LLC
Airgas Usa, LLC
American Welding & Gas, Inc.
Arcet Equipment Company dba Arc3 Gases North
Central Welding Supply Company
Deseret Biologicals, Inc.
DJB Gas Services, Inc
General Air Service & Supply Co
Haun Specialty Gases, Inc.
Holston Gases, Inc
ILMO Products Company
Keen Compressed Gas Co. Inc.
Linde Gas & Equipment Inc.
Linde Inc.
Linde Puerto Rico B.V.
Machine & Welding Supply Company dba Arc3 Gases South
Maine Oxy-Acetylene Supply Company
Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc.
MEDICAL-TECHNICAL GASES, INC.
MESSER GAS PUERTO RICO, INC
Messer LLC
Messer Merchant Production LLC
MITCHELL WELDING SUPPLY DBA Meritus Texas
NexAir, LLC
Norco, Inc
Oxarc, LLC
Professional Complementary Health Formulas
Red Ball Oxygen Co., Inc.
Reliant Holdings, Ltd
Roberts Oxygen Company, Inc.
SPI Pharma, Inc.
WELDERS SUPPLY COMPANY OF LOUISVILLE, INC.
Westair Gases & Equipment, Inc.
WSM SUPPLIER LLC.
Why It Matters
Sectors
FoodPaper & PrintingCore ChemicalsHealthEnergyConsumer ProductsMetals & MiningWaterAgriculture
Downstream Uses
Appears in 15 drug and cosmetic product listings (FDA).
- •Carbon Dioxide
- •Carbon Dioxide Air Mixture
- •Carbon Dioxide-Oxygen-Nitrogen Mixture
- •Carbon Dioxide-Oxygen Mixture
- •Carbon Dioxide Oxygen
- •Carbon Dioxide Compressed
- •Carbon Dioxide Oxygen Mix
- •Pollutox
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- •Carbon Dioxide Air
- •Compressed Gas, N.O.S.
- •Carbon Dioxide Nitrogen
- •Oxygen-Carbon Dioxide Mixture
- •Cell Energy Performance Drops 2048
- •Air 90% Carbon Dioxide 10%
- •Carbon Dioxide Refrigerated
FDA Shortage Status
Whether any manufacturer currently reports this drug as in shortage on the FDA Drug Shortages database. "Active Shortage" means at least one presentation has status "current."
No FDA shortage records
Industrial Uses
Used in 9 sectors as 11 functional roles.
- •Catalyst in Petrochemical ManufacturingProcessing—incorporation into article
- •Lubricating agent in Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (0%)Processing—incorporation into article
- •Adsorbents and absorbents in Petroleum Refineries (18%)Use—non-incorporative activities
- •Fuels and fuel additives in Utilities (50%)Processing as a reactant
- •Fixing agent (mordant) in All Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing (100%)Processing—incorporation into formulation, mixture, or reaction product
- •Intermediate in All Other Basic Organic Chemical ManufacturingProcessing as a reactant
- •Propellants and blowing agents in Industrial Gas Manufacturing (2%)Processing—repackaging
- •Processing aids, specific to petroleum production in Oil and Gas Drilling, Extraction, and Support activities (98%)Processing—repackaging
- •Agricultural chemicals (non-pesticidal) in Pesticide, Fertilizer, and Other Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing (100%)Processing as a reactant
- •Soil amendments (fertilizers) in Pesticide, Fertilizer, and Other Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing (20%)Processing as a reactant
- •Chemical reaction regulator in All Other Basic Inorganic Chemical ManufacturingProcessing as a reactant
Chemical Identity
CAS124-38-9
PubChem CID280
DTXSIDDTXSID4027028
FormulaCO2
Mol. Weight44.009 g/mol
SMILESC(=O)=O
Data Sources
DTXSID40270282026-04-06
https://doi.org/10.23645/epacomptox.5588566
Archive: data/sources/comptox/dsstox_identifiers.csv
2802026-04-06
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/rest/pug/compound/cid/280/property/MolecularFormula,MolecularWeight,CanonicalSMILES,InChIKey/JSON
Archive: data/sources/pubchem_properties/280.json
124-38-92026-04-24
https://www.epa.gov/chemical-data-reporting
Archive: data/sources/epa_cdr/2020_cdr.csv
CAS 124-38-92026-04-07
https://open.fda.gov/data/ndc/
Archive: data/sources/fda/ndc/ndc.json