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STANDARD TESTING PROCEDURE

FOR
DICLOFENAC POTASSIUM

PURPOSE & SCOPE:

It is established to ensure the quality of incoming raw material. It is applicable for analysis of
DICLOFENAC POTASSIUM.

RESPONSIBILITY:
1. Manager Quality Control.
2. Assistant Manager Quality Control.
3. Quality Control Analyst.

DESCRIPTION:
A white or slightly yellowish, crystalline powder.

SOLUBILITY:
Sparingly soluble in water, freely soluble in methanol, soluble in alcohol, slightly soluble in acetone.

IDENTIFICATION:
1. Dissolve about 10 mg in 10 ml of alcohol. To 1 ml of the solution add 0.2 ml of a mixture, prepared
immediately before use, of equal volumes of a 6 g/l solution of potassium ferricyanide and a 9 g/l
solution of ferric chloride. Allow to stand protected from light for 5 min. Add 3 ml of a 10 g/l
solution of hydrochloric acid. Allow to stand protected from light for 15 min. A blue color develops
and a precipitate is formed.
2. Prepare 10µg per ml solution of both standard and sample in 0.1N NaOH. The absorbance spectrum
of both standard and sample solution is same and has maximum absorbance at 276nm.
3. Suspend 0.5 g of the substance to be examined in 10 ml of water. Stir, add water until the substance
is dissolved. Add 2 ml of hydrochloric acid R1, stir for 1 h and filter with the aid of vacuum.
Neutralise the solution with sodium hydroxide solution R. To about 40 mg of the substance being
examined dissolved in 1 ml of water or to 1 ml of the prescribed solution add 1 ml of 2M acetic
acid and 1 ml of a freshly prepared 10% w/v solution of sodium cobaltinitrite. A yellow or orange-
yellow precipitate is produced immediately.

TESTS:
Loss on drying: Not more than 0.5 per cent, determined on 1.000 g by drying in an oven at 100°C to 105°C
for 3 hour.

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STANDARD TESTING PROCEDURE

FOR
DICLOFENAC POTASSIUM

ASSAY:
Dissolve 0.100 g in 50 ml of anhydrous acetic acid. Titrate with 0.1M perchloric acid, determining the end-
point potentiometrically.
Each ml of 0.1M perchloric acid is equivalent to 33.42 mg of Diclofenac potassium.

Limit: 99 ~ 101 %

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