Sodium alginate is a sodium salt of alginic acid, can be extracted and purified from the cell walls brown seaweed Laminaria japonica. It has chelating activity and can be used to adsorb heavy metal ions, also has mucosal-protective and hemostatic effects and used in food additives and pharmaceuticals.

Providing storage is as stated on the product vial and the vial is kept tightly sealed, the product can be stored for up to 24 months.
Wherever possible, you should prepare and use solutions on the same day. However, if you need to make up stock solutions in advance, we recommend that you store the solution as aliquots in tightly sealed vials at -20°C. Generally, these will be useable for up to one month. Before use, and prior to opening the vial we recommend that you allow your product to equilibrate to room temperature for at least 1 hour.