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 |