Is Rhodamine 123 vegetarian?

Rhodamine 123 is a synthetic fluorescent dye belonging to the rhodamine family, commonly used as a tracer dye in water flow studies. It is also used in biotechnology applications such as fluorescence microscopy and flow cytometry, and as a probe for mitochondrial membrane polarisation in live cell assays.

An ingredient is considered vegetarian if it avoids components derived from killing an animal.

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