Vitamin C
| Item | Standard |
| Appearance | White or almost white, crystalline powder or colourless crystals |
| Melting point | About 190 ºC . with decomposition |
| Infrared absorption spectrum | Infrared absorption spectrum accord with the referance spectrum of ascorbic acid CRS |
| PH(With 5% water solution) | 2.1-2.6 |
| PH(With 2% water solution) | 2.4-2.8 |
| Appearance of solution | Clarity; clear; colour: ≤ BY 7 |
| Specific optical rotation | 20.5 ºC- 21.5 ºC |
| Loss on drying | ≤ 0.4% |
| Impurity E | ≤ 0.2% |
| Related substance | Impurity C: ≤ 0.15% |
| Impurity D: ≤ 0.15% | |
| Unpecified impurities: ≤ 0.10% | |
| Total impurities: ≤ 0.20% | |
| Copper | ≤ 5.0ppm |
| Iron | ≤ 2.0ppm |
| Arisenic | ≤ 3.0ppm |
| Lead | ≤ 2.0ppm |
| Mercury | ≤ 1.0ppm |
| Cadmium | ≤ 1.0ppm |
| Heavy metals | ≤ 10ppm |
| Sulphated ash | ≤ 0.1% |
| Assay | 99.0% ~ 100.5% |