Aspartame

Drug ingredient

CAS 22839-47-0

This 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, 2024$872M

Top sourceSwitzerland 44%

At least one company claimed its 2023 production or import volume for this chemical as confidential, so EPA withholds it.

Why supply is unknown

Production is reported production, not a complete census of factories. US production volume is confidential. Production reporting year: 2023. Import value and source-country shares describe a shared customs category, not a separate chemical measurement.

Where It Comes From

Customs basis: HS 292429 · basket

EPA reports by year

2023: US production Confidential · Imports Confidential

These shares come from HS customs code 292429, which covers 203 tracked chemicals in total. They estimate the category's origin mix, not this chemical specifically.

Source Countries

Country of origin for US imports, from Census customs data (2024).

CH 44%SwitzerlandCN 19%ChinaIN 12%IndiaJP 9%JapanIE 6%Ireland

Taiwan
United Kingdom
El Salvador
Colombia
Ukraine
Brazil
Guatemala
Belgium
Netherlands
Turkey
Sweden
Greece
Canada
Israel
New Zealand
Latvia
Lithuania
Finland
Slovakia
Australia
Hong Kong
Czech Republic
Armenia
Poland

5 FDA-registered drug labelers

BioActive Nutritional, Inc.

Deseret Biologicals, Inc

Dr. Donna Restivo DC

Energique, Inc.

Professional Complementary Health Formulas

Why It Matters

Sectors

HealthFood

Downstream Uses

Appears in 8 drug and cosmetic product listings (FDA).

•Insecticides/Pest/Food Additives Detox
•Additox
•Addiclenz
•Artificial Sweetener Detox 6034
•Spectric
•Lipotox
•Multi-Phenolic
•Thio Combination 9306

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

Vendor Pricing

$0.50/gAK Scientific Specialized

CountryUnited States

Pack$50.00 / 100 g

PurityNot recorded

Vendors9 available

Prices reflect listed pack sizes. Small research packs run far above bulk rates.

8 more vendors

Vendor	Country	$/g	Pack	Purity
AK Scientific, Inc.	United States	$2.09	100 g	98%
Maybridge, Ltd.	United Kingdom	$11.23	100 g	97%
Apollo Scientific UK	United Kingdom	$13.60	5 g	95%
A2B Chem LLC (2 weeks)	United States	$25.00	5 g	95%
AA BLOCKS (2 weeks)	United States	$26.20	5 g	95%
Vitas M Chemical Limited	Hong Kong	$9000.00	10 mg	90%
TimTec, LLC	United States	$9333.33	30 mg	90%
Princeton BioMolecular Research (SC)	United States	$10500.00	10 mg	90%

Chemical Identity

CAS22839-47-0

PubChem CID134601

DTXSIDDTXSID0020107

FormulaC14H18N2O5

Mol. Weight294.3 g/mol

SMILESCOC(=O)C(CC1=CC=CC=C1)NC(=O)C(CC(=O)O)N

Data Sources

PubChem · compound 134601Retrieved 2026-04-07
EPA Chemical Data ReportingReporting year: 2023 · Retrieved 2026-10-04
FDA National Drug Code directoryRetrieved 2026-04-07
US Census international tradeReporting year: 2024 · Retrieved 2026-10-04

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Brief citations

Aspartame (CAS 22839-47-0) https://chemicalindependence.com/chemical/22839-47-0/ PubChem: 134601. Retrieved 2026-04-07. https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/134601 EPA Chemical Data Reporting: 22839-47-0. Reporting year: 2023. https://www.epa.gov/chemical-data-reporting FDA National Drug Code directory: bulk match. Retrieved 2026-04-07. https://open.fda.gov/data/ndc/ US Census international trade: HS 292429 for CAS 22839-47-0. Reporting year: 2024. https://usatrade.census.gov/