Sodium iodide

Drug ingredient

CAS 7681-82-5

This drug ingredient has classified U.S. production volumes. EPA withholds the number as confidential business information.

INa149.9 g/mol

no molecular structure to draw

US productionCBI

Confidential Business Information. The EPA withholds this volume because publishing it could reveal the reporting company's trade secrets.

Import value, 2024$21M

Top sourceGermany 35%

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 282760 · basket

EPA reports by year

2023: US production Confidential · Imports Confidential
2019: US production Confidential · Imports Confidential

These shares come from HS customs code 282760, which covers 29 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).

DE 35%GermanyIN 24%IndiaCA 17%CanadaBR 11%BrazilJP 4%Japan

China
Singapore
Spain
Ireland
Malta
United Kingdom
South Africa
Sweden
Israel
Armenia
Chile

EPA-registered manufacturers (4)

Companies that report making or importing this chemical to the EPA. Registration is US-centric and does not indicate import origin.

Toyota Tsusho · JP Japan

Deepwater Chemicals

Iofina Chemical

Thatcher

Domestic parents -- activity not disclosed (2)

EPA records name a US company for this chemical but do not disclose whether the company made it here or imported it.

Chemours

Luxium Solutions

14 FDA-registered drug labelers

Amerisource Bergen

BIONPHARMA INC.

Cardinal Health, 110 dba Leader

Chain Drug Market Association

CVS Pharmacy

Discount Drug Mart

DLC Laboratories, Inc.

Harris Teeter, LLC

Humco Holding Group, Inc.

KROGER COMPANY

Laboratorios Jaloma, S.A. de C.V.

Perrigo Direct, Inc

Pharma Nobis, LLC

Strategic Sourcing Services LLC

Why It Matters

Sectors

HealthElectronicsCore Chemicals

Downstream Uses

Appears in 14 drug and cosmetic product listings (FDA).

•Quality Choice Iodine Tincture Mild
•mild iodine tincture
•Iodine Tincture Mild
•Leader 2% Mild Iodine Tincture
•De La Cruz Tincture of Iodine
•Iodine
•DDM Iodine Tincture Mild
•Iodine Tincture

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•Sunmark Iodine
•Harris Teeter Iodine Tincture Mild
•CVS Iodine
•Foster and Thrive 2% Mild Iodine Tincture
•GNP Idoinde Tincture 2% Mild
•Health Mart Iodine Tincture Mild

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 2 sectors as 2 functional roles.

•Intermediate in All Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing (100%)Processing as a reactant
•Photosensitive agent in Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing (100%)Processing—incorporation into article

Chemical Identity

CAS7681-82-5

PubChem CID5238

DTXSIDDTXSID2041125

FormulaINa

Mol. Weight149.8942 g/mol

SMILES[Na+].[I-]

Data Sources

EPA CompTox (DSSTox) · DTXSID2041125Retrieved 2026-04-06
PubChem · compound 5238Retrieved 2026-04-06
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

Sodium iodide (CAS 7681-82-5) https://chemicalindependence.com/chemical/7681-82-5/ EPA CompTox (DSSTox): DTXSID2041125. Retrieved 2026-04-06. https://comptox.epa.gov/dashboard/chemical/details/DTXSID2041125 PubChem: 5238. Retrieved 2026-04-06. https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/5238 EPA Chemical Data Reporting: 7681-82-5. Reporting year: 2023. https://www.epa.gov/chemical-data-reporting FDA National Drug Code directory: CAS 7681-82-5. Retrieved 2026-04-07. https://open.fda.gov/data/ndc/ US Census international trade: HS 282760 for CAS 7681-82-5. Reporting year: 2024. https://usatrade.census.gov/