Sodium Tripolyphosphate

Sodium Tripolyphosphate also known as STPP is used in many food applications as a preservative for seafood, meats, poultry and animal feed as well as an emulsifier and to retain moisture. Industrial uses include water softener for detergents, ceramics (decrease the viscosity of glazes up to a certain limit), leather tanning (as masking agent and synthetic tanning agent – SYNTAN), anticaking, setting retarders, flame retardants, paper, anticorrosion pigments, textiles, rubber manufacture, fermentation, antifreeze). CAS # (7758-29-4)