Glycine
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$503M
Top SourceChina 25%
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 292249 · basket
These shares come from HS customs code 292249, which covers 42 chemicals in total. They estimate the bucket's origin mix, not this chemical specifically.
Source Countries
Country of origin for US imports, from Census customs data (2023).
CN 25%ChinaIN 17%IndiaSG 13%SingaporeIT 9%ItalyCH 7%Switzerland
- Argentina
- Poland
- Portugal
- Lithuania
- Ukraine
- Finland
- Spain
- Egypt
- Sweden
- Austria
- Israel
- Latvia
- Belgium
- Ireland
- Mexico
- Australia
- Peru
- Czech Republic
- Colombia
- Hong Kong
EPA-registered manufacturers (1)
Companies that report making or importing this chemical to the EPA. Registration is US-centric and does not indicate import origin.
Geo Specialty Chemicals
EPA-registered importers (7)
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
Showa Denko K K · JP Japan
Basf
Brenntag
Innospec
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Showa Denko America
Wilbur-Ellis
19 FDA-registered drug labelers
Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America Inc.
B. Braun Medical Inc.
Baxter Healthcare Company
Baxter Healthcare Corporation
Chattem Chemicals, Inc.
DNA Labs, Inc.
Evonik Rexim (Nanning) Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC
GEO Specialty Chemicals Inc.
ICU Medical Inc.
Nutritional Specialties, Inc.
ProBlen
Professional Compounding Centers of America
Qingdao Biopeptek Co., Ltd.
Spectrum Laboratory Products, Inc.
Willow Birch Pharma, LLC
Yuki Gosei Kogyo Co., Ltd.
Zen Chemicals Private Limited
Why It Matters
Sectors
Core ChemicalsHealthFoodConsumer ProductsMetals & MiningElectronicsAgriculture
Downstream Uses
Appears in 16 drug and cosmetic product listings (FDA).
- •Aminosyn-PF
- •Plenamine
- •Kabiven
- •Clinimix
- •Clinimix E
- •Glycine
- •Clinisol
- •ProSol
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- •TrophAmine
- •Aminosyn II
- •N-16
- •Travasol
- •Perikabiven
- •Metab
- •HGH Complex
- •Premasol - sulfite-free (Amino Acid)
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 5 sectors as 6 functional roles.
- •Plating agents and surface treating agents in Computer and Electronic Product ManufacturingProcessing as a reactant
- •Abrasives in Miscellaneous Manufacturing (100%)Processing—incorporation into formulation, mixture, or reaction product
- •Binder in Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting (2%)Processing—incorporation into formulation, mixture, or reaction product
- •Surface active agents in Soap, Cleaning Compound, and Toilet Preparation ManufacturingProcessing as a reactant
- •Fillers in Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing (100%)Processing—incorporation into article
- •Intermediate in All Other Basic Organic Chemical Manufacturing (100%)Processing as a reactant
Vendor Pricing
$0.02/gAA BLOCKS
CountryUnited States
Pack$11.00 / 500 g
Purity98%
Vendors32 available
Prices reflect listed pack sizes. Small research packs run far above bulk rates.
31 more vendors
| Vendor | Country Supplier country. Where available, shows shipping origin. When the supplier ships from a different country than where they are registered, both are shown. Most suppliers show registration country only. | $/g | Pack | Purity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A2B Chem LLC | United States | $0.02 | 500 g | 98% |
| BLD Pharmatech GmbH | Germany | $0.03 | 1 kg | 99% |
| BLD Pharmatech Ltd. | China | $0.03 | 1 kg | 99% |
| Apollo Scientific UK | United Kingdom | $0.03 | 5 kg | 99% |
| Sigma-Aldrich (Rush Stock) | Germany | $0.03 | 25 kg | 99% |
| Sigma-Aldrich | Germany | $0.03 | 25 kg | 99% |
| Fluorochem EU | Germany | $0.04 | 1 kg | 98% |
| Fluorochem UK | United Kingdom | $0.04 | 1 kg | 98% |
| Acrotein ChemBio, Inc. | United States | $0.04 | 1 kg | — |
| Chemscene | United States | $0.05 | 1 kg | — |
| AK Scientific, Inc. | United States | $0.07 | 1 kg | 99% |
| Apollo Scientific US | United Kingdom | $0.15 | 1 kg | — |
| AstaTech, Inc | United States | $0.23 | 100 g | 95% |
| Combi-Blocks, Inc. | United States | $0.25 | 1 kg | 99% |
| Biopharma PEG Scientific Inc. | United States | $0.30 | 500 g | 99% |
| MedChemExpress MCE | Sweden | $11.52 | 25 g | 99.93% |
| CliniSciences GmbH | Switzerland | $32.25 | 1 g | 99% |
| Molnova | China | $43.00 | 1 g | 99% |
| TargetMol Chemicals | China → United States | $48.00 | 1 g | 99.54% |
| Labotest KG | Germany | $217.80 | 5000 mg | 90% |
| Specs | Netherlands | $376.31 | 1 g | 90% |
| Otava, Ltd. | Ukraine | $460.00 | 250 mg | 95% |
| ChemFaces | China | $1500.00 | 20 mg | 98% |
| Vitas M Chemical Limited | Hong Kong | $3170.00 | 100 mg | 90% |
| Princeton BioMolecular Research (SC) | United States | $4200.00 | 50 mg | 90% |
| Asinex | Netherlands | $6461.40 | 100 mg | 90% |
| Key Organics Ltd. | United Kingdom | $6900.00 | 10 mg | 90% |
| AA BLOCKS (2 weeks) | United States | $8260.00 | 100 mg | — |
| A2B Chem LLC (2 weeks) | United States | $14540.00 | 100 mg | — |
| Aaron Chemicals LLC | Hong Kong | $17410.00 | 100 mg | — |
| TimTec, LLC (back-ordered) | United States | $32000.00 | 15 mg | 94% |
Chemical Identity
CAS56-40-6
PubChem CID750
DTXSIDDTXSID9020667
FormulaC2H5NO2
Mol. Weight75.07 g/mol
SMILESC(C(=O)O)N
Data Sources
DTXSID90206672026-04-06
https://doi.org/10.23645/epacomptox.5588566
Archive: data/sources/comptox/dsstox_identifiers.csv
7502026-04-06
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/rest/pug/compound/cid/750/property/MolecularFormula,MolecularWeight,CanonicalSMILES,InChIKey/JSON
Archive: data/sources/pubchem_properties/750.json
56-40-62026-04-24
https://www.epa.gov/chemical-data-reporting
Archive: data/sources/epa_cdr/2020_cdr.csv
CAS 56-40-62026-04-07
https://open.fda.gov/data/ndc/
Archive: data/sources/fda/ndc/ndc.json