Propionic acid

Drug ingredient

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

Molecular structure of 79-09-4
US ProductionCBI
Import Value$30M
Top SourceCanada 27%

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 291550 · basket

These shares come from HS customs code 291550, which covers 19 chemicals in total. They estimate the bucket's origin mix, not this chemical specifically.

Source Countries
CA 27%CanadaCN 14%ChinaIT 13%ItalyMX 11%MexicoIN 10%India
EPA-registered manufacturers (3)
Hawkins
Lyondell Chemical
The Dow Chemical
EPA-registered importers (1)
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber
1 FDA-registered drug labeler
Energique, Inc.

Why It Matters

Sectors
Core ChemicalsHealthFoodPlastics & RubberAgricultureConstruction
Downstream Uses

Appears in 1 drug and cosmetic product listings (FDA).

  • •Gut Brain Spectrum
FDA Shortage Status
No FDA shortage records

Industrial Uses

Used in 4 sectors as 4 functional roles.

  • •Adhesion/cohesion promoter in All Other Basic Inorganic Chemical ManufacturingProcessing as a reactant
  • •Intermediate in All Other Basic Organic Chemical ManufacturingProcessing as a reactant
  • •Agricultural chemicals (non-pesticidal) in Pesticide, Fertilizer, and Other Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing (45%)Processing—repackaging
  • •Intermediate in Food, beverage, and tobacco product manufacturing (50%)Processing as a reactant
  • •Preservative in Food, beverage, and tobacco product manufacturing (10%)Processing—incorporation into formulation, mixture, or reaction product

Vendor Pricing

$0.02/gSigma-Aldrich (Rush Stock)
CountryGermany
Pack$378.58 / 25 kg
Purity99.5%
Vendors14 available

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

13 more vendors
VendorCountry$/gPackPurity
Sigma-AldrichGermany$0.0225 kg99.5%
ALFA AESARGermany$0.032.5 kg99%
A2B Chem LLCUnited States$0.04500 g98%
AA BLOCKSUnited States$0.04500 g98%
Fluorochem UKUnited Kingdom$0.11500 g89%
MedKoo Biosciences, IncUnited States$0.202.5 kg98%
Combi-Blocks, Inc.United States$0.251 kg98%
Labotest KGGermany$217.805000 mg90%
Otava, Ltd.Ukraine$2280.0050 mg95%
Otava, Ltd. (2 weeks)Ukraine$2724.0050 mg95%
Princeton BioMolecular Research (SC)United States$2900.00100 mg90%
AsinexNetherlands$8651.50100 mg90%
TimTec, LLC (back-ordered)United States$32000.0015 mg94%

Chemical Identity

CAS79-09-4
PubChem CID1032
DTXSIDDTXSID8025961
FormulaC3H6O2
Mol. Weight74.08 g/mol
SMILESCCC(=O)O

Data Sources

DTXSID80259612026-04-06

https://doi.org/10.23645/epacomptox.5588566

Archive: data/sources/comptox/dsstox_identifiers.csv

10322026-04-06

https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/rest/pug/compound/cid/1032/property/MolecularFormula,MolecularWeight,CanonicalSMILES,InChIKey/JSON

Archive: data/sources/pubchem_properties/1032.json

79-09-42026-04-24

https://www.epa.gov/chemical-data-reporting

Archive: data/sources/epa_cdr/2020_cdr.csv

CAS 79-09-42026-04-07

https://open.fda.gov/data/ndc/

Archive: data/sources/fda/ndc/ndc.json

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