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[Amjshe]

Please let me know is there any physical, chemical or biological hazard may have

[TAW]

Are you speaking of sodium chloride (table salt) and also at what purity?

[Amjshe]

Are you speaking of sodium chloride (table salt) and also at what purity?

Yes and it is 100%salt

[TAW]

Do you sell the salt as the product?

[Scampi]

do you add any anti-caking agents? We by "no YPS" salt only

 

The YPS could pose a chemical hazard is not sourced properly from approved vendors if added

 

Are you adding iodine?

[Amjshe]

Do you sell the salt as the product?

we import from China and it comes in a glass bottle and we supply to different customers

[Scampi]

there could be physical contamination from the milling/grinding process

 

Biological if it has been contaminated during processing

 

Chemical.....any number of items could have fallen into it

 

Is the manufacturer GFSI certified?

[Amjshe]

there could be physical contamination from the milling/grinding process
 
Biological if it has been contaminated during processing
 
Chemical.....any number of items could have fallen into it
 
Is the manufacturer GFSI certified?

Yes there are GFSI certified

[Charles.C]

Please let me know is there any physical, chemical or biological hazard may have

 

note that there is no such item as 100% salt.

 

you need to ask supplier for a purity specification.

 

There are actually various grades commercialised, eg sun-dried, vacuum-purified etc.

 

So one simple answer to yr OP is yes, eg heavy metals.

[VickieLew]

Is it solar-evaporated or vacuum evaporated/dried? BIG difference. With solar evaporated there are known physical hazards including bones, stones, shells, sticks, maybe even feathers. Might want to check the USP (Dicernis) Food fraud database for economically motivated adulteration with salt from China too.

[tspiekermeier]

Not food safety related but I have a friend that learned that one salt is not the same as the other. He thought he could put food salt in his hot tub because the hot tub salt he was buying from the dealer costs about $4/lb. while he can by a 50lb bag of food salt for $5. It ended up plugging up and destroying his filters and destroying his chlorinating salt cell. Over $2k to get it fixed and he was lucky he didn't burn out the pump and heater.

[moskito]

Hi Amjshe,

 

specification is needed. We are talking about sodium chloride which has minimum purity requirements if used for food.

For contamination risk assessment it is importatnt to know whether the source is sea (salt) or whether the salt is coming from deep mining.

Don't forget bulk storage and bulk transportation.

 

Rgds

moskito

[MrHillman]

We run our Pink Himalayan through an 8 mesh sifting screen, we have found small nails, rocks and other non-salt items.

[Charles.C]

We run our Pink Himalayan through an 8 mesh sifting screen, we have found small nails, rocks and other non-salt items.

 

^^ = ??

[MrHillman]

Sorry, Pink Himalayan SALT! From millions of years ago when Pakistan was an ocean.

[SQFconsultant]

you need certified testing information from the packer - There is no such thing as 100% salt.

[Charles.C]

you need certified testing information from the packer - There is no such thing as 100% salt.

 

Unless it's Pink Himalayan !

 

https://www.amazon.c...m/dp/B01I59W77G

[Scampi]

My CofA for hygrade white salt is

 

99.80% Sodium Chloride  (table salt)

0.008% Magnesium Chloride  (soluable magnesium)

0.115% Calcium Sulphate  (naturally occurring gypsum)

0.028% Calcium Chloride  (salt---but this is what is used in road salt in a larger %)

 

From a deep underground mine.....I've put this here as a reference point only