Edetate Disodium

Edetate Disodium appears in 12 indexed US food products. No FDA SAFFA status or CSPI rating is attached in this snapshot, so this page reports prevalence rather than a safety verdict.

What the data can answer

Edetate Disodium appears in 12 catalogued products, but this snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to it. This page therefore cannot answer whether the ingredient is safe from those sources. It can show how often it occurs, where it tends to sit on labels, and which kinds of products contain it.

12
catalogued products
#13,357
usage rank of 247,206
1
named brands represented
37%
average depth down ingredient lists

Catalog prevalence comes from Open Food Facts ingredient lists. FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine labels are shown only when the source record contains them.

How to use this page

Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood

This is a mixed product neighborhood: 4 of 12 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Children's Cough; Afrin nasal spray peg; claritin allergy to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 45–100 score range to Edetate Disodium itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Non food products supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.

4 of 12 linked records have some flagged component

All 9 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 45–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.

Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.

Edetate Disodium sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#13,357 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#13,357
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 832 others that also appear in exactly 12 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
37%
Averaged label depth puts Edetate Disodium in the upper half of the list (37% of list length, mean slot 7.9). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.

How do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 12 sampled products listed below: its overall safety score against how many separately flagged ingredients its label carries. Bubble size is the number of ingredient rows the label actually resolved to.

Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Edetate Disodium

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 12 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 406080100120 01234 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Edetate Disodium Children's CoughAfrin nasal spray pegclaritin allergydaytime cold and flu reliefdelsymDelsymequate lidocaineequate multi-purpose solutionJuicey chew fruit shape jelliesmucinex free fromrohto eye dropsup&up contact solution
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

High-volume peers for Edetate Disodium

High-volume peers for Edetate Disodium: 12 products, mean screening score 93.3/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

What to do with this Edetate Disodium record

Start from Edetate Disodium's 12 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Questions readers ask about Edetate Disodium

Does Edetate Disodium carry its own safety label in this catalog?

This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Edetate Disodium. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.

Which product shelves show up most often with Edetate Disodium?

Edetate Disodium ranks in the top decile by product count (#13,357 of 247,206), appearing in 12 indexed products led by Non food products. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Edetate Disodium so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Edetate Disodium appears in 12 products (#13,357 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Edetate Disodium). Safety ratings: CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence: Open Food Facts via PlainFoodSafe (September 2026). Figures are computed from those sources, no editor-typed counts. Methodology · State regulations.