Product Characters:White Crystalline Powders, Colorless Crystals or Granules
Executive Standards :BP/USP/FCC/E331/GB1886.25-2016
Packaging :plastic woven bag, 25kg net composite paper-plastic bags or 3-ply kraft paper bags with PE liner, 500kg or 1000kg net pp woven jumbo bags
Storage:Kept in a light-proof, well-closed, dry and cool place, to avoid mixed storage with toxic, odor, and non-ferrous powders.
Main Usage:Sodium citrate is used as flavors, stabilizing agent, buffering agent, chelating agent, nutritional supplement of buttermilk, emulsifying agent and flavoring agent in food and beverage industry;it can be used as anti-blood clotting, apophlegmatisant and diuretics in phamaceutical industry;it can replace sodium tripolyphosphate as a non-toxic detergent additives in detergent industry; it can also be used in brewing, injection, photography drugs and electroplating etc.
Item | Unit | BP | USP | FCC | E330 | GB1886.235-2016 | ENSIGN |
Characters | / | Colorless Crystals or White Crystalline Powder | |||||
Identification | / | Pass Test | |||||
Color & Clarity of Solution | / | Pass Test | / | / | / | / | Pass Test |
Acidity or Alkalinity | / | Pass Test | Pass Test | Pass Test | / | Pass Test | Pass Test |
Light Transmittance | % | / | / | / | / | ≥95.0 | / |
Assay | % | 99.0~101.0 | 99.0~100.5 | 99.0~100.5 | ≥99.0 | 99.0~100.5 | 99.0-100.5 |
Water | % | 11.0~13.0 | 10.0~13.0 | 10.0~13.0 | 10.0~13.0 | 10.0~13.0 | 11.0-13.0 |
Readily Carbonisable Substances | / | Not Darker than Standard | / | / | / | ≤1.0 | Not Darker than Standard T>80% |
Sulphate | ppm | ≤150 | / | / | / | ≤100 | ≤50 |
Chloride | ppm | ≤50 | / | / | / | ≤50 | ≤10 |
Oxalate | ppm | ≤300 | / | / | ≤100 | ≤100 | ≤50 |
Iron | ppm | / | / | / | / | ≤5.0 | ≤5 |
Calcium | ppm | / | / | / | / | ≤200 | / |
Lead | ppm | / | / | ≤2 | ≤1 | ≤2.0 | ≤0.1 |
Arsenic | ppm | / | / | / | ≤1 | ≤1.0 | ≤0.1 |
Mercury | ppm | / | / | / | ≤1 | / | ≤0.1 |
Tartrate | ppm | / | Pass Test | / | / | / | Pass Test |
Heavy Metals | ppm | / | ≤10 | / | / | / | ≤5 |
PH | / | / | / | / | 7.5-9.0 | / | 7.5-9.0 |
Pyrogen | / | Pass Test | / | / | / | / | Pass Test |
Insolubles in water | / | / | / | / | / | / | / |