Canonical INCI monograph
EDTA
Not on the EU Annex III list
EDTA is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional category Chelating, with CAS number 60-00-4 and EC number 200-449-4. EDTA is the INCI name of the substance known as edetic acid (INN), also recorded as 1,2-Ethanediamine, N,N,N',N'-tetrakis(carboxymethyl)- (chemical name). In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 3 product labels, reaching position 7 on Garnier Fructis.
CAS REGISTRY NUMBER
60-00-4
EC NUMBER
200-449-4
COSING FUNCTIONS
Chelating
OTHER NAMES (COSING)
edetic acid (INN)
1,2-Ethanediamine, N,N,N',N'-tetrakis(carboxymethyl)- (chemical name)
Sample products containing EDTA
Label positions from the free INCIDB sample. A lower position means the ingredient is declared earlier, i.e. present in a higher proportion.
Query EDTA in the full snapshot
import pyarrow.parquet as pq
ingredients = pq.read_table('ingredients.parquet').to_pandas()
target = ingredients[ingredients['inci_name'] == "EDTA"]
print(target[['ingredient_id', 'functions', 'cas_number', 'is_common_allergen']])The complete snapshot covers 18,583 products. Coverage of each enrichment column is published, both per distinct name and weighted by label occurrence — see the coverage table.