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Pharmaceutical Expertise - USP, EP and JP Gases

 
     
     
 

Atlantic Analytical has methods in place for USP, EP and JP Nitrogen, Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide and Air.

Atlantic Analytical has demonstrated the analytical validity of analyzing for a 20ppm limit of Oxygen in NF Nitrogen by MS as an improvement to USP NF GC-TCD methodology while establishing an MS method quantitation limit of 10 ppm Oxygen in Nitrogen.

The current method for Assay and Limit of Oxygen provides for the analysis of Nitrogen by Gas Chromatography (GC) with Thermal Conductivity Detection (TCD). This method does not provide a valid quantitation limit for Oxygen, since the Oxygen and Argon chromatographic peaks overlap, and only provides a method for the determination of the Limit of Oxygen as less than 1.0%, and a corresponding assay of Nitrogen to 99.0%.

This methodology is not designed to produce accurate Oxygen quantitation in low ppm amounts, which limits the value of the information the analysis is capable of providing to pharmaceutical industries with tighter controls on Oxygen content in their Nitrogen manufacturing raw material.

 
 

GC NF-N2 data-std

GC NF-N2 data-std

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MS NF-N2 data

MS NF-N2 data

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  Our completed validation provides you with a fully validated method for analyzing Nitrogen for a specification limit of 20 ppm Oxygen, and a quantitation limit of 10 ppm, which in accordance with reporting for Assay Nitrogen shall produce an Assay value to 99.999+% Nitrogen (excluding Argon).