Sodium Citrate
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Description
Sodium Citrate (Trisodium Citrate Dihydrate) 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 pharmaceutical 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 | Quality Standards |
Characters | White or almost white, crystalline powder or granular |
Identification | Pass test |
Appearance of solution | Pass test |
Assay | 99.0%~100.5% |
Water | 11.0%~13.0% |
Readily carbonisable substances | Pass test |
Acidity or alkalinity | Pass test |
PH (5%w/v) | 7.5~9.0 |
Sulfate | ≤150 mg/kg |
Oxalate | ≤100 mg/kg |
Chloride | ≤50 mg/kg |
Lead | ≤1 mg/kg |
Arsenic | ≤1 mg/kg |
Mercury | ≤1 mg/kg |
Heavy metal (as Pb) | ≤10 mg/kg |
Tartrate | Pass test |
Pyrogen | Pass test |
Bacteria Endotoxins | Pass test |
