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Nutrition & Feed
Ensuring Food Safety and Animal Nutrition with Specialty Ingredients
In the food, beverage, and livestock feed industries, maintaining product safety, shelf life, and nutritional value is paramount. At WE Chem International, we leverage our specialty chemical distribution expertise to supply food-grade and feed-grade additives that support these goals, including ammonium chloride, benzoic acid, and sodium benzoate – key ingredients trusted to protect food products and enhance animal feed performance. Ammonium chloride (E510) is used as a food additive (for example, in salty liquorice) and as a feed supplement, and even finds use in pharmaceuticals.
Benzoic acid plays a key role in preserving foods and beverages and is also utilised in pharmaceutical formulations. Meanwhile, sodium benzoate – the sodium salt of benzoic acid – is one of the most common preservatives in soft drinks and condiments, and it also helps preserve personal care products. Together, these solutions enable manufacturers to keep products safe and stable – from extending shelf life to optimising the nutritional performance of animal feeds – while meeting strict industry standards.
Each product is listed alphabetically below and includes:
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Full chemical name, abbreviation, and CAS number
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Typical applications such as coatings, adhesives, textiles, personal care, or hydrogels
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Packaging options such as drums, IBCs, bulk or customized formats
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Suggested alternatives for formulating flexibility and supply chain resilience
Browse all food-grade and feed-grade ingredients and see how they enhance safety and performance in your formulations.
ammonium chloride
CAS: 12125-02-9
E510
Main Applications: Batteries – used as an electrolyte (NH₄Cl paste) in zinc–carbon dry cell batteries, Adhesives / Wood Industry – used as a curing agent in urea-formaldehyde resin adhesives for plywood and particle board (enables bonding at lower temperatures), Agriculture – used as a fertilizer and feed additive (source of nitrogen and chloride for crops and livestock), Food / Confectionery – used as a food additive (E510) in salty liquorice ("Salmiak"), especially in Nordic and Dutch sweets, Pharmaceuticals – used as an expectorant in cough medicine, Metal Processing – used as a flux in preparing metals to be tin coated, galvanized or soldered (removes oxide layers).
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Alternative to: Sodium chloride or other ammonium salts.
Ammonium chloride provides higher solubility and more effective pH control, especially useful in electroplating, food processing, and electrolytes.
benzoic acid
CAS: 65-85-0
BZA
Main Applications: Food & Nutrition – used in the production of food preservatives (its salts like sodium benzoate inhibit microbial growth in acidic foods and beverages), Personal Care & Pharma – used as a preservative and antimicrobial in cosmetics, ointments, and pharmaceuticals (e.g. topical antifungal preparations), Alkyd Resins & Coatings – used in making alkyd resin paints and coatings (as a modifier that improves gloss and hardness of paint films). Also an intermediate in synthesis of dyes and other organic compounds.
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sodium benzoate
CAS: 532-32-1
SB
Main Applications: Food Preservation (Nutrition) – the sodium salt of benzoic acid, it is one of the most common food preservatives (used in acidic foods, beverages, and condiments to inhibit molds and bacteria), Beverages & Personal Care – used in soft drinks, juices, and in cosmetic products (like mouthwash, shampoos) as an anti-microbial agent; Pharma – used in certain formulations and as a diagnostic aid in medicine (and as a tablet lubricant or in cough syrups). Also used in antifreeze and automotive coolants as a corrosion inhibitor for aluminum.