Glycine

Molecular Formula:C2H5NO2

Molecular Weight:78.06

CAS No:[56-40-6]

Characteristics:White crystals or crystalline powder, odorless having a peculiar sweetness. It readily solves in water, slightly in ethanol, does not solve in acetone or ethyl ether.

Quality Standards: USP28/BP98/AJI92/FCC,CP2000

Quality Standard:

Items	Specifications
Appearance	White crystals or crystalline powder
Assay. %	98.5~101.5
Identification	Positive
Transmittance, %	≥98
pH	5.5~6.5
Heavy metal(as Pb),ppm	≤20
Loss on drying, %	≤0.20
Residue on ignition, %	≤0.1
Chioride(as Cl), %	≤0.007
Sulphate(as SO4), %	≤0.0065
Iron(as Fe), %	≤10
Pb ppm	≤1
Ammonium(as NH4), %	≤0.01
Arsenic(as As) ppm	≤1

The Characteristics and Uses:

1.The food-grade Glycine is mainly used as nutritional supplement and food additive.

It is used as a flavoring or sweetness because it is sweet. In combination with sodium glutamate, DL-alanine, or citric acid, it can be used in alcoholic beverage; as a acid corrector or buffer for the composition of wine and soft beverage; as an additive for the making of salted vegetables and sweet jams; as an additive for the making of sause,vinegar and fruit juice, in order to improve the flavor and taste of food, to retain its original color and to provide a source of sweet;

It can be used as an antiseptic agent for fish flakes and peanut jams, because it can inhibit the reproduction of bacillus subtilis and E.coil;

Glycine consists of amino and hydroxyl ions and there has strong buffering effects. It can play a buffering role in the taste of edible salt and vinegar;

It plays a certain role in metal chelation and antioxidation. Therefore, it can be used as a stabilizer for cream, cheese, margarine, fast cooked noodles, wheat flour and pig lard;

It can be used as an inductor in feed additive because it is sweet;

It can be used in food processing, brewing process, meat processing ingredient as well as in saccharin sodium in order to remove bitterness.

2.The medical-grade Glycine:

It is mainly used in amino acid injection solution as nutritional infusion. It can be used to patients who have digestive malfuntion, or long consumptive diseases, and urgently need nutritional supplement, including those who have gastroenterotomia, severe traumatic infection, severe burns, cancer, or liver-kidney failure. It also can be used as a nutritional supplement before or after surgical operations;

It can be used as a supplemental madicine to treat myasthenia progressive and pseudo hypertrophic muscular dystrophy;

The solution containing 30% Glycine and 70% medical calcium carbonate, may be taken orally to treat neural hyperchlorthydria and gastric ulcer hyperchlorhydria.

It can be used as a buffer for Aurepmycin, as a raw material L-Dopa foe treating Parkinson's disease, as a raw material for synthesis of B6 amino acids including threonine, the intermadiates of imidazoleacetic acid;

It can be used as a stabilizer for Vitamin C;

It can be used in reseach on the metabolism of amino acids by medical organisms or on a biochemical basis.

3.The industrial-grade Glycine can be used as a solvent for removing CO2 in the fertilizer industry, as an additive to the electroplating solution, as a pH regular,and as an intermediate of pesticides,e,g,a key raw material for herbicide glyphosate.

Package and Transport : Four-layer paper bags for the food grade, containing a net weight of 25KG/bag;Handle with care in order to avoid damaging the package; protect them from sunshine and rain. Do not transport them together with poisonous or harmful goods