1 | Appearance | White powder | White crystals or white powder |
2 | Solubility | Passes | Freely soluble in water |
3 | Identification A (By IR) | Complies | IR spectra of the sample should be concomitant with the IR spectra of the respective standard. |
4 | Identification B (By Chromatographic identity) | Complies | The retention time of the major peak of the sample solution corresponds to that of the standard solution. |
5 | Identification C (for Sodium) | Complies | Dense white precipitate should form |
6 | Assay (on dried basis) | 99.63% | 98.0%-102.0% |
7 | Limit of Sodium Acetate | Not detected | NMT 0.2% |
8 | Limit of Sodium Maleate | Not detected | NMT 0.1% |
9 | Limit of Sodium Fumarate | Not detected | NMT 0.1% |
10 | sulfate (as SO4) | Less than 0.019% | NMT 0.019% |
11 | Acidity & alkalinity | 8.89 | 7.0-9.0 |
12 | Loss on drying (120°C for 2hr) | 39.5% | 37.0%-41.0% |
13 | Total aerobic microbial count (Bioburden) | Less than 100 CFU/gm | NMT 100 CFU/gm |
14 | Total combined yeasts and molds count (Bioburden) | Less than 50 CFU/gm | NMT 50 CFU/gm |
15 | E.coli | Absent/gm | should be absent /gm |
16 | Salmonella | Absent/10 gm | should be absent /10 gm |
17 | Pseud. aeruginosa | Absent/gm | should be absent /gm |
18 | Staphylococcus aureus | Absent/gm | should be absent /gm |
19 | Bile-tolerant gram negative bacteria | Absent/gm | should be absent /gm |
20 | Bacterial endotoxins | Less than 6.0 EU/gm | NMT 6.0 EU/gm |