Definition
US FDA substance register · UNII UVP74NG1C5 · registered name FERRIC AMMONIUM CITRATE · single chemical substance
Cosmetic roles
Safety & regulatory references
- Allowed colourant
- United States
Source: US FDA color additives · US FDA prohibited and restricted ingredients
Not classified under Korea’s toxic-substance GHS list · existing chemical substance
More data — names, identifiers, properties, test records, literature
Names & identifiers
- CAS No.chemical registry number
- 1185-57-5
- EC No.EU chemical inventory number
- 214-686-6
- DTXSIDUS EPA chemical ID
- DTXSID9040477
Measured properties
- Appearance
- solid
- Odour
- odourless
- pH
- 6~8
- Flammability (solid, gas)
- not flammable
- Vapour pressure
- 0 ㎩ (25℃)
- Water solubility
- 1200000 ㎎/ℓ (20℃)
- Vapour density
- 1.8 g/㎤
- Relative density
- 1.8
- n-Octanol/water partition coefficient (Kow)
- -0.737 (log Pow, 25℃)
- Decomposition temperature
- 189.62 ℃
- Molecular weight
- 488.16
Values measured on the substance itself. The KOSHA data are a reference for writing and reviewing safety data sheets, not a specification for a commercial raw material.
Source: KOSHA safety data sheets (Korea)
What products actually use it for
What the 4 products reported to the US EPA with this ingredient use it for. Products outside cosmetics are included, so the top few rows are its main uses.
- Dye2
- Anti-caking agent1
- Flavouring and nutrient1
Source: US EPA CompTox dashboard
Irritation and sensitisation studies
2 skin studies and 2 eye studies are on record.
The study conclusions largely agree (100%). These tests are on the raw material itself; irritation at the amount in a finished product is a different question.
See all 4 studies
- Category 6.3B (Category 3)
Skin Irritation · Read Across - Severe Irritation
skin irritation: in vivo · Screening · other guideline: as mentioned below according to - Severe Irritation
eye irritation: in vivo · Screening · other guideline: as mentioned below according to - Category 6.4A (Category 2A)
Eye Irritation · Read Across
Source: US EPA CompTox dashboard
Related literature
- Combined 5-aminolevulinic acid and ferric ammonium citrate treatment promotes hair follicle growth by activating dermal papilla cells. · 2026
- Ferritinophagy: Assessing the Selective Degradation of Iron by Autophagy in Human Fibroblasts. · 2024
- [A glass micropipette vacuum technique of cerebrospinal fluid sampling in C57BL/6 mice]. · 2023
- Bioproduction, characterization, anticancer and antioxidant activities of extracellular melanin pigment produced by newly isolated microbial cell factories Streptomyces glaucescens NEAE-H · 2017
- Mycobacterium haemophilum: microbiology and expanding clinical and geographic spectra of disease in humans · 1996
Linked databases 15
- Australian Industrial Chemicals Inventory (AICIS)
- ChEBI
- EU CosIng ingredient list 2
- Korea toxic substances GHS register (NIER)
- KOSHA safety data sheets (Korea)
- Tlooto literature search 2 3 4 5
- UniChem cross-reference IDs
- US EPA CompTox dashboard
- US EPA DSSTox chemical database
- US FDA color additives
- US FDA prohibited and restricted ingredients 2
- US FDA substance registration (GSRS)
- US FDA Unique Ingredient Identifier (UNII)
- Wikidata
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