There can be no equivalence.
A milligram (mg) is a measure of mass while parts per million (ppm) is a ratio of the mass of one substance relative to the mass of a mixture of that and other substances. It is a pure number and according to basic principles of dimensional analysis, any attempt at conversion from one to the other is fundamentally flawed.
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ppm means mg per litre. mg/l means 100ug/dl. Therefore there are 10 x 10 micrograms per decilitre in ppm. In other words, 10ug/dl is 0.1 ppm.
There are 1 mg for each kilogram of solution you have.
200 mg is 2 g
Write an equation representing the ppm concentration: ppm = mass solute (mg) ÷ volume solution (L) Extract the data from the question: mass solute (NaCl) = 0.0045 g. ... Convert the mass in grams to a mass in milligrams: mass NaCl = 0.0045 g = 0.0045 g × 1000 mg/g = 4.5 mg.
The term mg stands for milligram or a thousandth of a gram. The quantity 190 mg is just slightly less than 200 mg which would be a fifth of a gram. A gram is itself a relatively small amount, since there are 454 grams in a pound.