Niacinamide

CAS 98-92-0

Niacinamide, or nicotinamide, is the amide form of vitamin B3 used in most fortification because it does not cause the flushing that niacin can.

Where it is and isn’t permitted

Status of Niacinamide by jurisdiction. Every jurisdiction this site covers is listed, including those where the substance does not appear.
JurisdictionStatusScope and limitsCitation
United StatesFood and Drug AdministrationPermitted21 CFR 184.1535retrieved 2026-09-07
Codex AlimentariusCodex Alimentarius Commission / JECFANot listedDoes not appear on this jurisdiction’s permitted list. That is not the same as being prohibited.

What it is made from

Produced by chemical synthesis from a pyridine derivative.

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  • Vegetarian
CAS registry number
98-92-0
InChIKey
DFPAKSUCGFBDDF-UHFFFAOYSA-N
PubChem
CID 936

Every name it appears under

63 recorded names. A label may use any of them.

CAS registry number

  • 98-92-0

As it appears in regulation

  • Niacinamide

Other names

  • 3-Carbamoylpyridine
  • 3-Pyridinecarboxamide
  • 3-Pyridinecarboxylic acid amide
  • Aminicotin
  • Amixicotyn
  • Amnicotin
  • Austrovit PP
  • Benicot
  • beta-Pyridinecarboxamide
  • Delonin amide
  • Dipegyl
  • Endobion
  • Hansamid
  • Inovitan PP
  • Nandervit-N
  • Niacevit
  • Niacinamide
  • Niamide
  • Niavit PP
  • Nicamina
  • Nicamindon
  • Nicasir
  • Nicobion
  • Nicofort
  • Nicogen
  • Nicomidol
  • Nicosan 2
  • Nicosylamide
  • Nicota
  • Nicotamide
  • Nicotilamide
  • Nicotililamido
  • Nicotinamide
  • Nicotinamidum
  • Nicotine acid amide
  • Nicotine amide
  • Nicotinic acid amide
  • Nicotinic amide
  • Nicotinsaureamid
  • Nicotol
  • Nicotylamide
  • Nicotylamidum
  • Nicovit
  • Nicovitina
  • Nicovitol
  • Nicozymin
  • Niko-tamin
  • Nikotinamid
  • Nikotinsaeureamid
  • Niocinamide
  • Niozymin
  • Papulex
  • Pelmine
  • Pelonin amide
  • Pyridine, 3-carbamoyl-
  • pyridine-3-carboxamide
  • Pyridine-3-carboxylic acid amide
  • Savacotyl
  • Vi-Nicotyl
  • Vitamin PP

Systematic names

  • Pyridine-3-carboxamide

Hazard reference values

No reference value for this substance in the sources we hold.

Evidence and how bodies read it

Studies, and the differing conclusions regulators drew from them, are curated by hand rather than machine-read, and none has been written for this substance yet.

Sources for this page

  • ecfr retrieved 2026-09-07

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