| 1 | Appearance/Description | Clear, colorless, volatile liquid having pungent odor Boils at 117.1°C. Specific gravity is 1.049 | Crystalline mass or clear, colorless, volatile liquid having pungent odor Boils at about 118°C. Specific gravity about 1.049 | USP/Ph.Eur/BP/JP |
| 2 | Solubility | Complies | Miscible with water, with ethanol (96%), with methylene chloride, diethyl ether and with glycerin. | USP/Ph.Eur/BP/JP |
| 3 | Identification A (By Chemical test) | Complies | A 100 g/L solution is strongly acid | Ph.Eur/BP |
| 4 | Identification ( For Acetate 1) | Complies | A blue precipitate should form, or a dark blue color should develop | USP/Ph.Eur/BP |
| 5 | Identification ( For Acetate 2) | Complies | With neutral solutions of acetates, ferric chloride TS produces a red color that is destroyed by the addition of mineral acids. | USP |
| 6 | Identification A (Acetate) | Complies | The solution changes the blue litmus paper to red. | JP |
| 7 | Identification B (Acetate) | Complies | The acetates evolve the odor of acetic acid. ` | JP |
| 8 | Identification C (Acetate) | Complies | The odor Ethyl acetate should evolve. | JP |
| 9 | Identification D (Acetate) | Complies | The precipitate should dissolve and the color of the solution changes to yellow upon addition of hydrochloric acid. | JP |
| 10 | Reducing substances | Complies | The color of solution should remain pink | Ph.Eur/BP |
| 11 | Potassium permanganate- reducing substances | Complies | The red colour should not disappear within 30 minutes. | JP |
| 12 | Readily oxidizable substances | Complies | The pink color should not change to brown within 2 hours. | USP |
| 13 | Chloride (Cl) | Less than 25 mg/L | NMT 25 mg/L | Ph.Eur/BP |
| 14 | Sulphate (SO4) | Less than 50 mg/L | NMT 50 mg/L | Ph.Eur/BP |
| 15 | chloride | Complies | No opalescence should produce | USP/JP |
| 16 | Sulphate | Complies | No turbidity should produce | USP/JP |
| 17 | Iron (Fe) | Less than 5 ppm | NMT 5 ppm | Ph.Eur/BP |
| 18 | Assay | 99.62% | 99.5% to 100.5% m/m | USP/Ph.Eur/BP/JP |
| 19 | Limit of Nonvolatile residue /Residue on evaporation | 0.0024% | NMT 0.005% w/w | USP/Ph.Eur/BP/JP |
| 20 | Congealing temperature | 15.9°C | NLT 15.6°C | USP/JP |
| 21 | Freezing point | 15.2°C | Minimum 14.8 °C | Ph.Eur/BP |
| 22 | Heavy metal | Less than 10 ppm | NMT 10 ppm | JP |
| 23 | Total aerobic microbial count | Less than 100 CFU/ml | NMT 100 CFU/ml | In-house |
| 24 | Total combined yeast and molds count | Less than 100 CFU/ml | NMT 100 CFU/ml | In-house |
| 25 | E.coli | Absent/ml | should be Absent/ml | In-house |
| 26 | Pseud. aeruginosa | Absent/ml | should be Absent/ml | In-house |
| 27 | Staphylococcus aureus | Absent/ml | should be Absent/ml | In-house |
| 28 | Bile-tolerant gram negative bacteria | Absent/ml | should be Absent/ml | In-house |
| 29 | Bacterial endotoxins | Less than 0.5 EU/mg | NMT 0.5 EU/mg | In-house |