Ferrous Fumarate (EP-BP) Food Use to Enhance Iron in Foods and Dietary Supplements

Short Description:

Ferrous Fumarate occurs as a red-orange to red-brown powder. It may contain soft lumps that produce a yellow streak when crushed . It is soluble in water and in alcohol and very slightly soluble in ethanol.

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Product Detail

Product Description

CAS No. : 141-01-5;
Molecular Formula: C4H2FeO4;
Molecular Weight: 169.9;
Quality standard:Standard: FCC/USP;
Product Code: RC.03.04.190346

Features

Ferrous fumarate is a typical iron poduct used in the foods and dietary supplements such as flour fortification; it has different particle sizes as 80mes; 120mesh;140mesh etc.

Application

Ferrous fumarate is a type of iron that's used as a medicine to treat and prevent iron deficiency anaemia.

Iron helps the body to make healthy red blood cells which carry oxygen around the body. Some things such as blood loss, pregnancy or too little iron in your diet can make your iron supply drop too low, leading to anaemia.

Ferrous fumarate comes as tablets, capsules; nutritional foods or as a liquid that you swallow.

Parameters

Chemical-Physical Parameters	RICHEN	Typical Value
Identification	Positive	Positive
Assay C4H2FeO4 （calculated on the dried basis）	93 . 0%- 101 . 0%	0.937
Mercury(Hg)	Max . 1mg/kg	0.1
Loss on Drying	Max . 1 . 0%	0.5%
Sulfate	Max . 0 . 2%	0.05%
Ferric Iron	Max . 2 . 0%	0.1%
Lead(Pb)	Max . 20mg/kg	0.8mg/kg
Arsenic(As)	Max . 5mg/kg	0.3mg/kg
Cadmium(Cd)	Max . 10mg/kg	0.1mg/kg
Chromium(Cr)	Max . 200mg/kg	30
Nickel(Ni)	Max . 200mg/kg	30
Zinc(Zn)	Max . 500mg/kg	200

Microbiological Parameters	RICHEN	Typical Value
Total plate count	Max . 1000cfu/g	＜10cfu/g
Yeasts and Moulds	Max . 100cfu/g	＜10cfu/g
Coliforms	Max . 40cfu/g	＜10cfu/g