FOOD GREEN S* C. I. FOOD GREEN 4 * BRILLIANT GREEN BS
DEFINITION
Food Green S consists essentially of sodium N-[4-(dimethylamino)phenyl (2-hydroxy-3,6-disulfo-1-naphthalenyl) methylene]-2,5-cyclohexadien-1-ylidene-N-methylmethanaminium and subsidary colouring metters together with sodium chloride and/or sodium sulfate as the principal uncoloured compounds.
Food Green S is described as the sodium salt. The calcium and the potassium salt are also permitted.
Content not less than 80% total colouring matters, calculated as the sodium salt
E 1% 1cm 1 720 at ca 632 nm in aqueous solution
DESCRIPTION
Dark-blue or Dark Green powder
IDENTIFICATION
a.
Spectrometry
b. Blue or Green solution in water
Maximum in water at ca 632 nm
PURITY
Water Insoluble matter
Not more than 0.2%
Subsidiary colouring matters
Not more than 1.0%
Organic compounds other than colouring matters
[4,4'-bis(dimethylamino-benzhydryl alcohol] - Not more than 0.1%
[4,4'-bis(dimethylamino-benzophenone] - Not more than 0.1%
[3-hydroxynaphthalene-2,7-disulfonic acid] - Not more than 0.2%