Recommended use in following applications: as a constituent of baking powder, as a constituent of blanching solutions for preventing after-cooking darkening of potatoes, as a constituent of phosphate mized in meat processing, as a constituent of cheese emulsifying salts, as a general buffer and acidifying agent in foodstuffs, as a dispersant in oil well drilling muds, in leather treatment to remove iron stains, in the stabilization of hydrogen peroxide solutions, as a cleaning agent, in conjunction with  sulphamic acidn in certain dairy applications, as seafood preservative.