
Sodium Saccharin is an artificial sweetener. It is the sodium salt of saccharin, with two crystal water. The basic substance, benzoic sulfilimine, has effectively no food energy and is much sweeter than sucrose, maybe 300-500 times sweeter than table sugar. It is used to sweeten products such as drinks, candies, biscuits, medicines, and toothpaste.
Specification Index:
Assay Subject | Unit | Assay Standard | Assay Results |
Appearance | white crystalline powder | Conform | |
Content(dry basis) | % | 99~101 | 99.5 |
Melting Point | ℃ | 226~230 | 227.4~228.8 |
Water | % | 13~15 | 13.89 |
Loss on drying | % | 0.4 max | 0.05 |
Arsenic | ppm | 2 max | 0.002 |
Lead | ppm | 2 max | 0.003 |
Cadmium | ppm | 2 max | 0.007 |
Mercury | ppm | 1 max | Not detected |
Chromium | ppm | 1 max | Not detected |
Selenium | ppm | 13 max | 0.097 |
Benzoic | ppm | 1 max | Not detected |
Clarity of Solution | Lower than “ I ” | Conform | |
Toluene Sulphonamide | Complies with USP | Conform | |
Free acid and alkali | Complies with USP | Conform | |
Related substance | Complies with USP | Not detected | |
Organic volatiles | Complies with USP | Not detected |
Recommended Applications:
• Food and beverage: general cold drinks, beverages, jellies, preserved fruits, protein and sugar.
• Feed additives: pig feed, sweet agent.
• Daily chemical industry: toothpaste, shoop saliva, eye drops, etc.
• Electroplating industries: electroplating brightener.
• It also can be used as assay agent of blood circulation and plated brightener.