E512 Stannous chloride — is it halal?
Ruling: Mashbuh (doubtful)
Description
Stannous chloride E512 is an inorganic salt (dihydrate SnCl2·2H2O). Tin (c1) is dissolved in hydrochloric acid (c2, host E507), chlorinated with chlorine (c3) or used to reduce the tetrachloride (c4). Tin may be secondary: tinplate scrap and cans (c5; content residues — c6), wastes (c7, c8), silk-dyeing residue (c9, 1908). Patents add alcohols (ethanol, methanol, propanol, butanol, isobutanol — each separately)
Basis of the ruling
Tin(II) chloride is an inorganic salt: tin is dissolved in hydrochloric acid or chlorinated. Patents use alcohol of unnamed source and stabilisers of undisclosed composition, and the salt is also regenerated from spent metallising solutions containing undisclosed organic matter.
Names: Хлорид олова (II) · Stannous chloride · كلوريد القصدير الثنائي
Also known as: E 512, E-512, Е512, INS 512, INS No. 512, Stannous chloride dihydrate, Stannous chloride anhydrous, Tin chloride, Tin dichloride, Tin(II) chloride, Tin (II) chloride, Tin(II) chloride (1:2), Dichlorotin, Tin crystals, Tin salt
Category: Antioxidants
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