FDA Guidance: Use of “Potassium Salt” as an Alternate Name for “Potassium Chloride” in Food Labeling

Our readers may recall a 2016 citizen’s petition filed by NuTek Food Science that requested FDA to permit “potassium salt” as a common or usual name for potassium chloride because of consumers’ negative associations with the word “chloride.”  While NuTek withdrew the petition following FDA’s release of a 2019 draft guidance authorizing the term “potassium... Continue Reading