Potassium Chloride — products, DINs, and Canadian availability

This page lists Health Canada–registered pharmaceutical products whose active ingredient list includes Potassium Chloride. We track 120 distinct Drug Identification Numbers (DINs) for this molecule, of which 25 are currently in marketed status. Across those registrations there are 14 manufacturers or marketing authorization holders, 4 dosage forms, and 31 distinct strength presentations.

Procurement teams normally arrive here for one of three reasons: a specific brand is unavailable and an equivalent registration is needed; a clinical protocol requires a comparator containing Potassium Chloride in a defined strength; or a pharmacy needs to know which manufacturers still hold an active Canadian registration before committing to a substitution. The table below answers the first question directly. For the second and third, Nexara Health can confirm live availability, remaining shelf life, and landed cost from Canadian stock or from any of more than 40 regulated international source markets.

Registration status is not the same as availability. A product can hold marketed status in the Drug Product Database and still be on allocation, discontinued by the holder, or unavailable in the pack size a hospital needs. Where a Potassium Chloride product is in shortage, our Canadian drug shortage tracker carries the reported status, the reason where the manufacturer has published one, and the marketed alternatives sharing the same active ingredient.

Dosage forms and strengths recorded for Potassium Chloride

Dosage forms: Solution, Liquid, Tablet, Powder For Solution. Strengths: 3.3 G, 5 G, 900 MG, 600 MG, 6 DH, 3000 UNIT, 30 UNIT, 2000 UNIT, 170.5 G, 5000 UNIT, 204.5 G, 172 G, 172.2 G, 263 G.

Manufacturers and marketing authorization holders

BAXTER CORPORATION, B. BRAUN MEDICAL INC, DOLISOS CANADA INC., VITA HEALTH PRODUCTS INC, STANLEY PHARMACEUTICALS, A DIVISION OF VITA HEALTH PRODUCTS INC., BIO AGRI MIX LP, HALL LABORATORIES, LTD., LONDON DRUGS LIMITED, BDH INC., ALTHIN BIOPHARM INC., GENPHARM ULC, WESTERN DIALYSIS SUPPLIES LTD., VANTIVE ULC, CHIEF MEDICAL SUPPLIES LTD.

Registered products containing Potassium Chloride

Sourcing Potassium Chloride through a licensed wholesaler

Nexara Health imports and distributes under Health Canada Drug Establishment Licence #3-002896. For Potassium Chloride we can quote Canadian-marketed presentations, equivalent registrations from the EU, UK, US, Switzerland, Australia, and Japan where the Canadian presentation is unavailable, and comparator-grade supply with Certificate of Analysis, batch and expiry records, and full chain of custody for clinical trial use. Cold-chain presentations ship under GDP conditions with continuous temperature monitoring.

Related pages

• Browse all active ingredients
• Canadian drug shortage tracker
• Alternatives to Potassium Chloride
• Comparator sourcing for clinical trials