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About Sodium Chloride
Sodium chloride, or salt, has the chemical formula NaCl, which is a mixture of one part sodium to one part chloride ions. Sodium chloride salt has been used by humans for thousands of years, and they currently use 250 megatons of it annually for all purposes.
True, table salt and sodium chloride (CAS 7647-14-5), which is widely used as a food additive, are chemically identical. However, the sodium chloride from A&C is incredibly pure, meeting more than 49 important pharmaceutical monograph requirements (USP, EP, BP, and JP). Using a specially designed crystallization technique, the material is extracted from natural salt deposits and GMP processed to an extremely high degree of purity, minimizing any remaining natural elements impurities.
Since sodium is the primary cation of extracellular fluid and a mediator of water distribution, fluid balance, and proper osmotic pressure, sodium chloride salt is vital because both sodium and chloride ions are required for our bodies to function normally. It should not be surprising, then, that this important salt finds widespread use in medical applications, such as injections, eye drops, nasal sprays, and parenteral and non-parenteral drug administration forms.