The pharmaceutical industry

Taurine has anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, analgesic, sedative, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood sugar, anti-arrhythmia, antibacterial, anti-platelet aggregation, enhancing immune function, gallbladder, strong liver, detoxification, regulation of vascular tension and other effects, clinical has a variety of uses:Can be used for the treatment of acute and chronic hepatitis, fatty liver, cholecystitis, bronchitis, tonsillitis, acute conjunctivitis, herpetic and viral conjunctivitis;It is also used to treat colds, fevers, epilepsy, pediatric spasms, heart failure, arrhythmias, high blood pressure, uterine bleeding, atherosclerosis, acne, and more.As a medicine, taurine has been widely used in China and Japan.

Food additive

Taurine is an essential amino acid for humans and animals.Lack of taurine in children can lead to stunted growth, visual impairment, increased susceptibility to epilepsy, and even cardiomyopathy.The lack of taurine in adults also endangers their health.As an excellent food additive, taurine has been widely used in Europe, America, Japan and other developed countries.The United States, Japan and other countries in order to ensure the healthy growth of infants and children, has already clearly stipulated the content of taurine in infant dairy products, not less than 0.16mg/100mL.Taurine was added to certain nutritional supplements sold in Japan as early as the 1970s.They also add it to beverages, MSG compound, soy products and dairy products.In Japan, children's food is not allowed to be marketed without taurine.The United States, Japan and other countries 99% of taurine used as food additives.Since 1990, taurine has been allowed to be used as a nutritional food additive in dairy products, beverages and compound condiments, with the allowable addition amount of 30 ~ 40mg/kg.In recent years, the "Red Bull" beverage, "Wahaha" children's nutrition solution, "Congcong mother solution" and "Qiangli God", "Golden Oyster", "Longdan" and other nutrition and health products emerging on the market all contain an appropriate amount of taurine.Studies have shown that the nutritional value of taurine added to milk and milk powder can be close to that of breast milk.Taurine can also be used as pilots, astronauts, athletes and other food and drink quality additives, in order to enhance physical fitness, relieve fatigue.In addition, taurine as a feed additive into animal feed, can prevent and cure fish diseases, can make cats, dogs and other pet eyes more bright.It is predicted that taurine will be mainly used as food nutrition additive in the future, and the market in food additive will be very broad, and it will also produce greater economic and social benefits.[1]

Intermediates for organic synthesis

It is applied to the synthesis of fluorescent whitening agent.Such as the introduction of aminoethyl sulfonic acid group into the stilbene ditriazine fluorescent whitening agent, can improve the water-solubility of the whitening agent, enhance the washing and whitening effect.This kind of whitening agent is mainly used for papermaking, cellulose fiber and polyamide fiber whitening.In addition, taurine can also be reacted with polyacrylamide to make functional polymer flocculant N-taurine polyacrylamide, used in the process of wet phosphoric acid gypsum separation process.Because it can control the crystal shape of gypsum and reduce the viscosity of phosphoric acid in the process of gypsum formation, it can improve the filtration speed and increase the filtration efficiency.Taurine can also be used in the preparation of reactive dyes and the synthesis of other organic compounds