Product Description
Product Overview
Food grade, fine-screened, white crystalline sodium chloride manufactured by the natural evaporation of seawater from San Francisco Bay. Refined by washing with clean saturated brine to remove surface impurities, drained of excess moisture, dried, and screened to size. As a natural evaporite, may contain occasional minute inclusions of extraneous matter (black specks or lightly colored material) which are not harmful.
Applications
- Topping pretzels
- Topping crackers and wafers
- Processing tomato products
- Food processing applications
Specifications
| Purity (NaCl) | 99.6% NaCl (target) |
| Bulk Density (lbs/cu ft) | 65 lbs/cu ft (target) |
| Bulk Density (g/L) | 1,040 g/L (target) |
| Particle Size – USS 20 Mesh | 4-20% retained |
| Particle Size – USS 30 Mesh | 40% retained |
| Particle Size – USS 40 Mesh | 40% retained |
| Particle Size – USS 50 Mesh | 13% retained |
| Particle Size – USS 70 Mesh | 2% retained |
| Surface Moisture | 0.05% (target) |
| Calcium & Magnesium | 0.08% (target) |
Packaging
50lb bags
Certifications
- Food Chemicals Codex compliant
- USDA FSIS approved for direct use in meat and poultry


