| 1 | Appearance/Description | Clear, colorless, volatile liquid having pungent odor Boils at 118°C. Specific gravity 1.05 | Crystalline mass or clear, colorless, volatile liquid having pungent odor Boils at about 118°C. Specific gravity about 1.05 | USP/Ph.Eur/BP |
| 2 | Solubility | Complies | Miscible with water, with ethanol (96%), with methylene chloride and with glycerin. | USP/Ph.Eur/BP |
| 3 | Identification A (By Chemical test) | Complies | A 100 g/L solution is strongly acid | Ph.Eur/BP |
| 4 | Identification B (Acetates) | Complies | A blue precipitate should form or a dark blue color should develop | USP/Ph.Eur/BP |
| 5 | Reducing substances | Complies | The color of solution should remain pink. | Ph.Eur/BP |
| 6 | Readily oxidizable substances | Complies | The pink color should not change to brown within 2 hours. | USP |
| 7 | Chloride (Cl) | Less than 25 mg/L | NMT 25 mg/L | Ph.Eur/BP |
| 8 | Sulphate (SO4) | Less than 50 mg/L | NMT 50 mg/L | Ph.Eur/BP |
| 9 | Iron (Fe) | Less than 5 ppm | NMT 5 ppm | Ph.Eur/BP |
| 10 | Assay | 99.9% | 99.5% to 100.5% m/m | USP/Ph.Eur/BP |
| 11 | Limit of Nonvolatile residue /Residue on evaporation | 0.0015% | NMT 0.005% w/w | USP/Ph.Eur/BP |
| 12 | Congealing temperature | 16.0°C | NLT 15.6°C | USP |
| 13 | chloride | Complies | No opalescence should produced | USP |
| 14 | Sulfate | Complies | No turbidity should produced | USP |
| 15 | Total aerobic microbial count | Less than 100 cfu/ml | NMT 100 cfu/ml | In-house |
| 16 | Total Yeast and mold count | Less than 100 cfu/ml | NMT 100 cfu/ml | In-house |
| 17 | E.coli | Absent/mL | Should be Absent/mL | In-house |
| 18 | Pseud. aeruginosa | Absent/mL | Should be Absent/mL | In-house |
| 19 | Staphylococcus aureus | Absent/mL | Should be Absent/mL | In-house |
| 20 | Bile-tolerant gram negative bacteria | Absent/mL | Should be Absent/mL | In-house |
| 21 | Bacterial endotoxin test | Less than 0.5 EU/mg | NMT 0.5 EU/mg | In-house |