Substance Name: Asafetida
RN: 9000-04-8
UNII: W9FZA51AS1
Notes
- A plant genus of the family APIACEAE. It contains pungent oils and resins. It is used to flavor curries, as a carminative, and as cat and dog repellent. The occasionally used common name of 'giant fennel' should not be confused with true fennel (FOENICULUM).
- TSCA Definition 2018: Extractives and their physically modified derivatives. It is a product which may contain resin acids and their esters, terpenes, and oxidation or polymerization products of these terpenes. (Ferula, Umbelliferae).
Molecular Formula
- Unspecified
Classification Codes
- Drug / Therapeutic Agent
- Mutation Data
- TSCA UVCB
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Names and Synonyms
Name of Substance
- Asafetida
Synonyms
- Asafetida
- Asafetida fluid extract (Ferula assafoetida L.)
- Asafetida gum
- Asafetida gum (Ferula assafoetida L.)
- Asafetida oil (Ferula assafoetida L.)
- Asafoetida gum
- Asafoetida powder
- Asant
- Asefetida
- Caswell No. 061A
- CCRIS 8950
- Devil's Dung
- EINECS 232-522-1
- EPA Pesticide Chemical Code 261200
- FEMA No. 2106
- FEMA No. 2107
- FEMA No. 2108
- Ferula assa-foetida
- Ferula resin
- Flatulence
- Food of the gods
- Gum asafetida
- UNII-W9FZA51AS1
Systematic Names
- Asafetida
- Asafoetida
Superlist Name
- Asafetida
Registry Numbers
CAS Registry Number
- 9000-04-8
FDA UNII
- W9FZA51AS1
Other Registry Number
- 89957-72-2
System Generated Number
- 0009000048