Profile: Savage Laboratories is a pharmaceutical division, which deals with emergency medicines. Our product kaon-cl® 10 extended-release tablets, USP are a solid oral dosage form of potassium chloride. Each contains 750 mg of potassium chloride equivalent to 10 mEq of potassium in a wax matrix tablet. This formulation is intended to slow the release of potassium so that the likelihood of a high localized concentration of potassium chloride within the gastrointestinal tract is reduced. It is used for the prevention of hypokalemia in patients who would be at particular risk if hypokalemia were to develop. It is used also used for the treatment of patients with hypokalemia, with or without metabolic alkalosis; in digitalis intoxication, and in patients with hypokalemic familial periodic paralysis.