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IS 15443:2004
Indian Standard
IMIDACLOPRID
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
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FAD 1
FOREWORD
This Indian Standard was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards, after the draft firmlized by the Pesticides and
Ptsti~ide Residue Analysis Sectional Committee had been approved by the Agricultural and Food Products Division
coLlncil.
Imidacloprid
twhni~al,
is employed
in the preparation
CgH,,CINfO,
of insecticidal
formulations.
for Standardization
Moleculur
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(1S0) for
Muss
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No
In (IK .preparation
ol this standard, due consideration has been given to the provisions of the Insecticides Act, 1968
.
and the Rules framed thmcunder. However, this standard is subjected to the restrictions imposed under the Act and the
RLIICS wherever applicable.
F(N [hc purpose olckiding
whether a particular requirement of this standard is complied with the final value, observed
or calculated. expressing the result 01a test or analysis, shall be rounded off in accordance with IS 2: 1960 Rules for
rounding oft numerical values (revised). The number of significant places retained in the rounded off value should be
he same as [hat oi the specified value in this standard.
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IS 15443:2004
Indian Standard
IMIDACLOPRID
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
]egib]y and indelibly the following information in addition
to any other information
as is necessary under the
Insecticide Act, 1968 and Rules framed thereunder:
1 SCOPE
This standard prescribes the requirements and the methods
of sampling and test for imidacloprid technical.
2 REFERENCES
c) Batch number;
The following standards contain provisions which through
reference in this text, constitute provisions of this standard.
At the time of publication, the editions indicated were
valid. All standards are subject to revision and parties to
d) Date of manufacture;
e) Date of expiry;
f) Net mass of contents;
g) Nominal
(m/m);
10946: 1996
imidacloprid
technical
content, percent
Title
Reagent
grade water (third
flevision)
Methods of test for pesticides and
(heir formulations (jir.st revision)
Fibreboard
drums for general
purposes (first revision)
Requirements
for packing of
pesticides : Part I Solid pesticides
(second t-evisio]l)
Methods of sampling for technical
grtlde pesticides (jirst revision)
required
j) Any other information
Standards of Weights and Measures
Commodities) Rules, 1977.
5.2 BIS Certification
The product
Mark.
under the
(Packaged
Marking
3 REQUIREMENTS
3.1 Description
The material shall be in the ~orm of cream to off white
coloured powder. It shall be devoid of hard aggregates
and free from extraneous impurities or added modifying
agents,
6 SAMPLING
Representative sample of the material shall be drawn as
prescribed in IS 10946.
7 TESTS
4 PACKING
7.1 Tests shall be carried out by the methods as referred
in COI4 and 5 of Table 1.
5 MARKING
that do not
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IS 15443:2004
Table 1 Requirements for Imidacloprid
(Clause 3.2)
S1 N().
Cb:lractcristics
Ii)
iii)
Requirement
(2)
(3)
Annex Of
this Standard
(4)
Il]lid:lcloprid con[ent,
pwcellt by Il]ass. Miff
94.0
(1)
i)
Technical
Mois[uw content,
by 111;+SS.
M{/.r
percent
A~idily (m H,SO,).
percent by I;Iass, Jlmi
9
c1 No. Of
[S 6940
(5)
1.0
0.5
11.3
0.5
11.3
4.1
by !llasS. Mflr
ANNEX A
[Table 1, S1No. (i)]
DETERMINATION
OF IMIDACLOPRID
A-1 PRINCIPLE
A-3 REAGENTS
A-1.l Itnidacloprid
content is determined
by high
performance liquid chromatography
(HPLC) equipped
with UV-VIS detector using internal standard tcchoique.
A-3.1 Acetonitrile
liquid
Standard
Acenaphthene
AR grade or
chromatograpb
Dctcclor
Solvent system
Solvent flow rate
Temperature
Snmplc size
5/25 }d.
Column
A-2 APPARATUS
A-3.4 Reference
Purity
Imidacloprid
Standard
of Known
A-4 PROCEDURE
A-4.1 Preparation
A-4.2 Preparation
Weigh out accurately
-.
into
IS 15443:2004
a 100 ml volumetric
flask. Add to it about 40 ml of the
solvent mixture (see A-4.1). Keep it for 30 min with
intermittent
shaking to dissolve the acenaphthene
completely. Make up the volume upto the mark with the
solvent mixture. Shake well to homogenize the solution.
A-4.3 Preparation
A-4.5.2
6.55 min
Imidacloprid
2.87 min
20.0 min
lOtal
run time
A-6
CALCULATION
Imidacloprid
x ~
x q
x P
ff12
Al = area of imidacloprid
solution;
in the standard
A, = area of imidacloprid
solution;
peak
As = area of acenaphthene
solution;
A, = area of acenaphthene
solution;
A-4.5 Estimation
peak
peak
in the sample
in the sample
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