Potassium bicarbonate
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$19M
Top SourceSouth Korea 61%
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 283640 · exact
Source Countries
Country of origin for US imports, from Census customs data (2023).
KR 61%South KoreaTW 17%TaiwanDE 8%GermanyCN 5%ChinaGB 3%United Kingdom
- India
- Japan
- Israel
- Switzerland
EPA-registered manufacturers (3)
Companies that report making or importing this chemical to the EPA. Registration is US-centric and does not indicate import origin.
Armand Products
Ecolab
Nachurs Alpine Solutions
EPA-registered importers (6)
Companies that report making or importing this chemical to the EPA. Registration is US-centric and does not indicate import origin.
Avantor
Evonik
The Dow Chemical
Tr International Trading
Walter Kidde Portable Equipment
Show all 6
Wintersun International
4 FDA-registered drug labelers
Bayer HealthCare LLC.
EMNAR PHARMA PRIVATE LIMITED
Nomax Inc.
Upsher-Smith Laboratories, Inc.
Why It Matters
Sectors
Core ChemicalsHealthFoodConsumer ProductsMetals & MiningAgriculture
Downstream Uses
Appears in 10 drug and cosmetic product listings (FDA).
- •Effer-K Cherry Berry
- •Alka-Seltzer Gold
- •Effer-K Unflavored
- •Effer-K 20 mEq Unflavored
- •Effer-K 10 mEq Cherry Vanilla
- •Effer-K 20 mEq Orange Cream
- •Effer-K Orange
- •Effer-K Lemon Citrus
Show all 10
- •Effer-K 10 mEq Unflavored
- •KLOR-Con/EF
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 7 functional roles.
- •Intermediate in All Other Basic Inorganic Chemical ManufacturingProcessing as a reactant
- •Intermediate in All Other Chemical Product and Preparation ManufacturingProcessing as a reactant
- •Processing aids, specific to petroleum production in Pharmaceutical and Medicine ManufacturingProcessing—incorporation into formulation, mixture, or reaction product
- •Processing aids, specific to petroleum production in Food, beverage, and tobacco product manufacturingProcessing—incorporation into formulation, mixture, or reaction product
- •Intermediate in Wholesale and Retail TradeProcessing—repackaging
- •Processing aids, specific to petroleum production in Pesticide, Fertilizer, and Other Agricultural Chemical ManufacturingUse—non-incorporative activities
- •Process regulators in Miscellaneous ManufacturingUse—non-incorporative activities
- •Surface active agents in Soap, Cleaning Compound, and Toilet Preparation Manufacturing (100%)Processing—incorporation into formulation, mixture, or reaction product
- •Fillers in Pharmaceutical and Medicine Manufacturing (34%)Processing—incorporation into formulation, mixture, or reaction product
- •Fillers in All Other Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing (33%)Processing—incorporation into formulation, mixture, or reaction product
- •pH regulating agent in All Other Chemical Product and Preparation ManufacturingProcessing—incorporation into formulation, mixture, or reaction product
- •Agricultural chemicals (non-pesticidal) in Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting (10%)Processing—incorporation into article
- •pH regulating agent in Pharmaceutical and Medicine Manufacturing (20%)Processing—incorporation into article
Chemical Identity
CAS298-14-6
PubChem CID516893
DTXSIDDTXSID0021177
FormulaCHKO3
Mol. Weight100.115 g/mol
SMILESC(=O)(O)[O-].[K+]
Data Sources
DTXSID00211772026-04-06
https://doi.org/10.23645/epacomptox.5588566
Archive: data/sources/comptox/dsstox_identifiers.csv
5168932026-04-06
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/rest/pug/compound/cid/516893/property/MolecularFormula,MolecularWeight,CanonicalSMILES,InChIKey/JSON
Archive: data/sources/pubchem_properties/516893.json
298-14-62026-04-24
https://www.epa.gov/chemical-data-reporting
Archive: data/sources/epa_cdr/2020_cdr.csv
CAS 298-14-62026-04-07
https://open.fda.gov/data/ndc/
Archive: data/sources/fda/ndc/ndc.json