Ammonium chloride (E510): What the Sources Found

Ammonium chloride is the acidity regulator the food industry lists as E510. In our table it is no risk identified: it takes no points off a product's score for a child.

In short

No risk identified. No regulator finding we score, so a product keeps all 33 additive points.
No child flag. Nothing below is written about children specifically, so the class is the same at every age.
2 citations from Law, FDA, each one below.

What Ammonium chloride does to a score

A packaged food starts with 33 points for what is in its ingredient list. Ammonium chloride takes no points off a product's score. Scan the pack in Sito and the score you get is the one for your own child's age, with this additive named in the reasons. How we score has the whole method.

What the sources found

Every classification in our table comes from the citations below, and nothing else. They are quoted as the source wrote them.

Law Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, Article 3(2)(a)(vii), consolidated text 02008R1333 — EN — 16.12.2024 — 059.001 (EUR-Lex ELI: reg/2008/1333)
Article 3's definition of 'food additive' is followed by an exclusion list: 'The following are not considered to be food additives: ... (vii) ammonium chloride'. A search of the full consolidated text returns no E 510 entry in Annex II or Annex III, consistent with that exclusion.
FDA 21 CFR 184.1138 (Ammonium chloride) — Part 184 "Direct Food Substances Affirmed as Generally Recognized as Safe"; verified against the current eCFR structure
Ammonium chloride is affirmed GRAS as a direct human food substance in the US, so products bearing it are legitimately on the US shelf.

Why this class

Clean current EFSA and FDA status. These rows exist so that an unfamiliar additive is never treated as a bad one: a missing row costs a product nothing, and a clean row says so with citations.

Our confidence in this row's classification is medium. Medium or low does not mean the evidence is weak; it means something about the row is still being pinned down, usually a regulatory status confirmed from one source rather than two.