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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. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 3 product labels, reaching position 7 on Garnier Fructis.

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.