Tartrazine Food Colour Tartrazine is synthetic lemon yellow AZO dye that finds use as food coloring agent. It is derived from petroleum and is water soluble with maximum absorbance in aqueous solution. It finds use in many of the products including processed commercial foods having artificial green or yellow color, desserts, confectionery, cotton candy, cake mixes, pastries. Other than this, it is also used in beverages like soft drinks; snacks like flavored corn chips; condiments and spreads like jam & jelly as well as in other processed foods like cereal, noodles and others. Specification PRODUCTS NAME TARTRAZINE Color SHADE SYNONYMS Food Yellow- 4 Tri-sodium 5-hydroxy-1-(4-Sulfonato phenyl-4-(4-Sulfonato CHEMICAL NAME phenylazo) pyrazole-3-carbaxylate Color INDEX NO. 19140 C.I. NAME Acid Yellow- 23 FDA STATUS FD&C Yellow - 5 CAS NO. 1934-21-0 EINECS NO. 217-699-5 EEC NO. E-102 HUE NAME (FOOD) Yellow - 4 INDIAN STANDARD No. 1694 CLASS Monoazo ( Pyrazolone) TOTAL DYE CONTENT % MIN. 87 LOSS ON DRYING AT 135 C & SODIUM 13 CHLORIDES & SULPHATES % MAX WATER INSOLUBLE MATTER % MAX. 0.2 ETHER EXTRACTS % MAX.. 0.2 SUBSIDIARY DYE % MAX. 1.0 DYES INTERMEDIATES % MAX. 0.50 UNSULFONATED PRIMARY AROMATIC AMINES % MAX. 0.01 LEAD (AS "Pb") PPM (MAX.) 10.00 ARSENIC (AS "As" PPM (MAX.) 1.00 MERCURY (AS "Hg") PPM (MAX) 1.0 CHROMIUM (AS "Cr") PPM (MAX) 5.0 HEAVY METALS PPM (MAX) 40.00 Total organic compound other than coloring matter, percent by mass. 4-hydrazinobenzene sulfonic acid 4-aminobenzene-1-sulfonic acid Max 00.50 5-oxo-1-(4-sulfophenyl)- 2-pyrazoline-3-carboxylic acid 4,4_-diazoaminodi(benzene sulfonic acid) WATER (gms/ltr.) 140.00 GLYCERINE (gms/ltr.) 150.00 PROPYLENE GLYCON (gms/ltr.) 50.00 ETHANOL (95%) (gms/ltr.) Trace Use: Tartrazine, a synthetic lemon yellow azo dye, used wide variety of foods including desserts and candies, soft drinks, condiments, and breakfast cereals. .