Superiority
1. in the food industry, it is used as the acidulant in the making of soda, candy, biscuit,
can,jam,juice and so on. moreover, it can be used as the antioxidant of grease.
2. in the medicine industry, it is the raw material of many pharmaceuticals, such as
ferric ammonium citrate (blood tonic), sodium citrate (blood transfusion agent) and
so on. moreover, citric acid is also used as the acidulant in lots of medicines.
3. in the chemical industry, esters of citric acid can be taken as the non-toxic plasticizer to make the plastic film of food package.
4. it can be used as both the auxiliary agent in the industrial and civil detergent to
make nuisanceless detergent and the retarder in concrete. moreover, it is also
applied to industries like electroplating, leather and ink.
Details
specification:
citric acid anhydrous
item specification result
appearance colorless or white crystal colorless or white crystal
identification complies with the limit test conforms
clarity&colour of solution pass test pass test
purity 99.5~101.0% 99.94%
moisture < 1.0% 0.14%
sulphated ash ≤0.05% 0.01%
sulphate ≤150ppm <150ppm
oxalic acid ≤100ppm <100ppm
heavy metals ≤5ppm <5ppm
readily carbonisable substance pass test pass test
bacterial endotoxin <0.5iu/mg <0.5iu/mg
aluminium ≤0.2ppm <0.2ppm
lead ≤0.5ppm <0.5ppm
arsenic ≤1ppm < 1ppm
mercury ≤1ppm < 1ppm
mesh 30-100mesh conforms
conclusion: in conformity with bp/usp/fcc/e330
citric acid monohydrate
item specification result
appearance colorless or white crystal colorless or white crystal
identification complies with the limit test conforms
clarity&colour of solution pass test pass test
purity 99.5~101.0% 99.96%
moisture 7.5~8.8% 8.72%
sulphated ash ≤0.05% 0.01%
sulphate ≤150ppm <150ppm
oxalic acid ≤100ppm <100ppm
heavy metals ≤5ppm <5ppm
readily carbonisable substance pass test pass test
bacterial endotoxin ≤0.5iu/mg <0.5iu/mg
aluminium ≤0.2ppm <0.2ppm
lead ≤0.5ppm <0.5ppm
arsenic ≤1ppm < 1ppm
mercury ≤1ppm < 1ppm
mesh 8-80mesh conforms
conclusion: in conformity with bp/usp/fcc/e330