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In response to the growing regulation of potential carcinogens in pharmaceutical ingredients and excipients, JMC has issued an announcement confirming the safety of our saccharin products.

Regulators such as the US FDA have recently begun regulating nitrosamines and nitrites in pharmaceuticals. In response, customers have been asking JMC to confirm the safety of our products and processes. In particular, customers have been asking whether JMC uses the Maumee process to produce Saccharin. Such questions are raised because there are concerns among customers who are aware that nitrites are used in the Maumee process. We hereby confirm to you that JMC’s Saccharin is manufactured by the Remsen & Fahlberg process, not the Maumee process. Therefore, we can also confirm that there are no concerns about nitrosamines or nitrites with JMC’s Saccharin products.

Please find below a document that details why JMC products are totally free from nitrites. We encourage you to share this with your quality team.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions about this announcement.

JMC’s Food Safety System Certification (FSSC 22000) was renewed in January 2021. This certifies that our products meet the standards set by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI). JMC’s use of the R&F process to manufacture saccharin ensures that we produce the world’s highest quality saccharin. Food safety management is a top priority for JMC.

For more information about our approach to safety and sustainability see:

To explain JMC’s unique approach to purity, reliability and sustainability, today we released a new video.

In this explainer video we show what makes our saccharin so special and why our manufacturing processes are safe, reliable and sustainable.

On August 8, we announced that we had obtained a patent on functionalised derivatives of sodium saccharin and how they are manufactured.

This patent was filed through a joint study with Professors Suhng Wook Kim and Un chul Shin of Korea University’s School of Health and Environmental Science. This work was also reported in an article published on October 29 in the International Journal of Labelled Compounds and Radiopharmaceuticals. The title of the article is “Development of a 68Ga‐labelled PET tracer for carbonic anhydrase IX‐overexpressed tumors using the artificial sweetener saccharin”.

The patent concerns sodium saccharin and manufacturing methods of its derivatives combined with a ligand compound having an optional targeting action for hypoxic tumors. Sulfonamide-based substances, such as saccharin, show selective binding to Carbonic Anhydrase IX (CA IX) that occurs in tumor cells. Saccharin derivatives can therefore be used to safely and effectively diagnose cancerous tumor cells.

The results of this study confirmed the potential for saccharin derivatives to be used as new diagnostic pharmaceutical agents in addition to existing uses in various medicines, food ingredients, beverages, toothpastes, etc. as artificial sweeteners. We plan to continue joint research with domestic researchers to ensure that saccharin is commercially available as a building block for diagnostic substances in tumor cells.

For related articles, see the links below.

“Catch cancer with saccharin….What are KISCO’s Patents?” – Money Today Broadcasting (mtn.co.kr)

“Development of a 68Ga‐labelled PET tracer for carbonic anhydrase IX‐overexpressed tumors using the artificial sweetener saccharin” – International Journal of Labelled Compounds and Radiopharmaceuticals

As part of the continuing modernisation of JMC’s corporate brand we are pleased to launch our updated website. The new site, at www.jmcfinechem.com, is an English-first site, reflecting our global focus. The branding and colors reflect the changes we have introduced to our packaging and company brochures. We are also more clearly articulating our company slogan ‘Creating Sweetness and Pure Chemistry’ which emphasises our main business, saccharin as well as our growing business in creating new materials and partnerships in other sectors of the chemical industry.

The website highlights JMC’s main business areas and in each section a video enables customers and partners to see inside JMCs facilities. This transparency emphasises our commitment to high quality manufacturing.

In the next phase of our digital upgrade JMC will begin to publish more content through our social media channels so be sure to follow us for further updates.

A message to our partners during the COVID-19 pandemic

With COVID-19 still impacting lives and businesses around the world, we made this video to connect with our partners on a personal level as we work to overcome this situation together. If you need us, let our staff be your “Sweet Super Heroes”.

– The JMC Saccharin Team