Dichloroacetic acid is a chemical compound - an acid. The salts and esters of dichloroacetic acid are called dichloroacetate.  The dichloroacetic acid is of an highly acidic nature and requires to be buffered with another agent in our case sodium bicarbonate in order to reduce the acidity to an acceptable PH (around 7.0 on the PH scale).  After minor processing the salts (dry white powder) is called a dichloroacetate, it is this product we name sodium dichloroacetate

The Sodium Dichloroacetate is then analysed for purity and quality and package for sale. All our DCA Sodium Dichloroacetate is Pure Grade Quality and produced to Pharmaceutical standards.