Food use
Food-use source coverage is present in the current record.
The ingredient appears in food-oriented source coverage or allowed-use references, which makes food use easier to support than a context with no domain signal at all.
EPA CPDat observed this chemical in 5 composition records across product categories including Personal care.
Concern score
The concern value reflects this ingredient's chemical identity — its hazard profile from the published classifications and regulatory status below — not the safety of a product it appears in. A score near 40 is the baseline for ingredients with no specific signal (water scores 40 by design), so a mid-range value is not a safety verdict.
Concern score 5/100 · limited confidence.
Prevalence of Quaternary ammonium compounds, C16-18-alkyltrimethyl, chlorides in our catalog (epa_cpdat).
Products
5
Brands
3
Typical roles
Context-specific fit derived from published classifications and the current ingredient evidence profile.
Food use
Food-use source coverage is present in the current record.
The ingredient appears in food-oriented source coverage or allowed-use references, which makes food use easier to support than a context with no domain signal at all.
Fragrance avoidance
No fragrance-linked caution surfaced in the current profile.
Primary documents currently linked to this ingredient record.
Structured claim signals pulled from linked ingredient research.
Published jurisdiction-level classifications and regulatory designations for this ingredient.
US
EPA
EPA CPDat observed this chemical in 5 composition records across product categories including Personal care. EPA CPDat classifies this chemical for functional uses including Preservative, Anti-static agent, Softener and conditioner.
US
FDA
openFDA substance registry classifies this ingredient as mixture.
This ingredient does not currently read as a fragrance-linked driver in the published evidence and hazard profile.
The published evidence profile currently shaping this ingredient record.