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Citirc Acid Monohydrate: Citric Acid is mainly used as acidulant, flavoring agent, preservative and antistaling agent in food beverage industry. It is also used as antioxidant, plasticilizer and detergent in chemical, cosmetics and cleaning industries.
Item | BP 98 | Analysis Result |
characteristics | Colorless or white crystal | Colorless or white crystal |
Identification test | Pass the test | Pass the test |
Clarity & Color solution | 20% water solution clarity | 20% water solution clarity |
Assay | 99.5%-101.0% | 99.88% |
Moisture | 7.5%-9.0% | 8.60% |
Sulphated Ash | ≤0.05% | 0.01% |
Sulphate | ≤150 ppm | <30 ppm |
Oxalate | ≤100 ppm | <20 ppm |
Calcium | ≤200 ppm | <20 ppm |
Heavy metals | ≤5 ppm | <1 ppm |
Iron | ≤50 ppm | <1 ppm |
Chloride | ≤50 ppm | <5 ppm |
Readily Carbureted Substance | Standard color | Less than standard color |
Barium | Pass the test | Pass the test |
Endotoxin of Germ | ≤ 0.5 IU/mg | <0.5 IU/mg |
Aluminum | ≤ 0.2 ppm | <0.2 ppm |
Arsenic | ≤ 1 ppm | <0.1 ppm |
Mercury | ≤ 1 ppm | <0.1 ppm |
Lead | ≤ 0.5 | <0.5 ppm |
Organic volatile impurity | Pass the test | Pass the test |
Tridodecylamine | ------- | <0.1 |
U.V. Radiation absorption Value | ------- | Pass the test |
Mesh size | 8 -80 mesh ≥90% | |
Citric Acid Monohydrate