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  • 67 - Technologie alimentaire
2018-01-20
2017-11-29

ICS 67.200.10

SLNS 25: 2017 Coconut Oil - Specification

. This standard represents a revision of national standard SLNS 25: 1992 Specification for coconut oil. This second edition was adopted by the national standards council on...

This new edition contains internationals recognised tests methods for parameters of coconut oil. New requirements for fatty acid composition and antioxidants have been included. This new edition represents requirements for current technological advancements and manufacturing practices.

This standard is intended to provide requirements for crude and refined coconut oil which is compatible with a system of quality assurance. It also provides uniform level of acceptance for quality for the different types of coconut oil manufactured and traded in Saint Lucia.

In formulating this standard considerable assistance was derived from the following:

a)       American Oil Chemists' Society: Official and Tentative Methods of the American Oil Chemists' Society;

b)      Association of official Analytical Chemists (AOAC): Official Methods of Analysis – Food Composition, Additives, Natural Contaminants, 15th Edition, 1990; Volume Two;

c)       International Standardization Organisation: ISO 5555: 2002 Animal and Vegetable Fats and Oils –Sampling;

d)      CODEX Alimentarius Commission: Standard for Names Vegetable Oils, (CODEX STAN 210-199), Revised 2009, Amendment 2015); General Standard for Contaminants and Toxins in Food and Feed (CODEX STAN 193-1995) Revised 2009, Amendment 2015);

e)      Standards and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia: MS 239: 1987 Specification for Coconut Oil;

f)       Asian and Pacific Coconut Community: APCC Quality Standard for Virgin Coconut Oil, 2009. Modifications have been made to the CARICOM Regional Standard to include references to Saint Lucian National Standards where they exist. Where reference is made to the CARICOM region it implies Saint Lucia.