Application
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 pharmaceutical industry; it can replace sodium tripolyphosphate as a non-toxic detergent additives industry; it can also be used in brewing, injection, photography drugs, electroplating etc.


Product Parameters
 
| Test Item  | Unit  | The Standard  | 
| Appearance | --- | White or almost white, crystalline powder or granular crystals. Slightly deliquescent in moist air. Freely soluble in water, practically insoluble in ethanol | 
| Identification  | --- | Pass test | 
| Appearance of solution | --- | Pass test | 
| Acidity or Alkalinity | 
  | Pass test | 
| Assay | % | 99.5-100.5 | 
| Moisture  | % | 11.0-13.0 | 
| Readily Carbonisable Substances | % | 80Min. | 
| Sulphate  | PPM | 150Max. | 
| Chlorides | PPM | 50Max. | 
| Oxalate | PPM | 100Max | 
| Iron | PPM | 5Max | 
| Lead  | PPM | 1Max | 
| As | PPM | 1Max | 
| Mercury | PPM | 1Max | 
| Tartrate | -- | Pass test | 
| Heavy Metals(as Pb) | PPM | 5Max | 
| PH(5%w/v) | -- | 7.5-9 | 
| Pyrogens | --- | Pass test |