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Allura Red AC

analytical standard

Synonym(s):

Disodium 6-hydroxy-5-[(2-methoxy-5-methyl-4-sulfophenyl)azo]-2-naphthalenesulfonate

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About This Item

Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
C18H14N2Na2O8S2
CAS Number:
Molecular Weight:
496.42
Colour Index Number:
16035
EC Number:
MDL number:
UNSPSC Code:
12164500
PubChem Substance ID:
E Number:
E129
NACRES:
NA.24

grade

analytical standard

Quality Level

Assay

≥98.0% (HPLC)

shelf life

limited shelf life, expiry date on the label

technique(s)

HPLC: suitable
gas chromatography (GC): suitable

mp

>300 °C (lit.)

application(s)

cleaning products
cosmetics
food and beverages
personal care

format

neat

SMILES string

[Na+].[Na+].COc1cc(c(C)cc1\N=N\c2c(O)ccc3cc(ccc23)S([O-])(=O)=O)S([O-])(=O)=O

InChI

1S/C18H16N2O8S2.2Na/c1-10-7-14(16(28-2)9-17(10)30(25,26)27)19-20-18-13-5-4-12(29(22,23)24)8-11(13)3-6-15(18)21;;/h3-9,21H,1-2H3,(H,22,23,24)(H,25,26,27);;/q;2*+1/p-2/b20-19+;;

InChI key

CEZCCHQBSQPRMU-LLIZZRELSA-L

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General description

Allura red AC (E29) is a mono azo dye, added as a synthetic colorant to various drinks, juices, bakery, meat, and sweets products. It has been approved for use as a food additive by European Union (EU) Register as per Annex I of Directive 94/36/EC. The USA Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its use in food, drugs, and cosmetics as a substitution for amaranth (Red 2) and erythrosine (Red 3). It is commonly known as Food Red No. 40 and Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Red No. 40 (FD&C Red No. 40).

Application

The analytical standards can also be used as follows:
  • Hydrophobic deep eutectic solvents (HDES) based liquid-phase microextraction (LPME) of Allura Red AC and tartrazine in food samples for their quantification by UV-Vis spectrophotometry
  • Nanomolar-level determination of Allura red in soft drink powder samples using a voltammetric electrochemical sensor based on a glassy carbon electrode (GCE) modified with cross-linked chitosan film incorporated with carbon black particles and ionic liquid,1 -butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate
  • Simultaneous analysis of Sunset Yellow FCF, Allura Red AC, Quinoline Yellow WS, and Tartrazine in gummy bears, chewing gum, and sweet candy samples by reversed phase-high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) coupled with UV detection
  • Construction of an electrochemical sensor based on cobalt complex decorated carbon paste electrode (CoC/CPE) for the cyclic voltametric determination of tartrazine, sunset yellow, and Allura red in gelatin and pharmaceutical dosages of acetaminophen
  • Multi-residue analysis of 20 synthetic dyes in 18 chili powders and six syrup-preserved fruit samples by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)

Packaging

Bottomless glass bottle. Contents are inside inserted fused cone.

Other Notes

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Legal Information

Storage Class Code

11 - Combustible Solids

WGK

WGK 2

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable


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Compendium of Food Additive Specifications: Combined Specifications from 1st Through the 37th Meetings.
Dr.Kenji Ishii
Science, 35-37 (1990)
Spectroscopic characterization of SC-NTR: A subsidiary dye of Allura Red AC dye (FD&C Red No. 40).
Yuiko T
Food Additives and Contaminants, 11 (1), 97-104 (1994)
B Fallico et al.
Food additives & contaminants. Part A, Chemistry, analysis, control, exposure & risk assessment, 28(11), 1501-1515 (2011-08-23)
This article reports the results of a survey and an exposure study, based on a probabilistic approach, concerning red juice-based and red soft drink products in Italy. It highlights the fact that the estimates of both the consumption rates and
Takeshi Serizawa et al.
Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids, 21(17), 7739-7742 (2005-08-11)
The anionic dyes methyl orange (MO) and allura red (AR) were used as model drugs to assess the loading and release by layer-by-layer assembled ultrathin hydrogels prepared via the amide formation of poly(acrylic acid-co-N-isopropylacrylamide) with AAc contents of 5, 10
Ahmad H Alghamdi
Journal of AOAC International, 88(5), 1387-1393 (2006-01-03)
Square wave (SW) voltammetry was used to explore the adsorption properties of the food additive dye Allura Red on a hanging mercury drop electrode (HMDE). By using the adsorptive stripping voltammetric approach, we developed a sensitive electroanalytical method for the

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