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Process
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How do you source fruit from Ukraine?
The practical sequence: decide the form before the species, specify with methods, verify certificate scope, sample from a commercial lot and fix…
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What goes into a stone fruit specification?
Beyond size and colour: pit fragment control, halving accuracy, cavity cleanliness and post-thaw behaviour are the parameters that actually decide acceptance.
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Which apple varieties are best for processing?
It depends on the output. Dice and slices need firm, slow-browning flesh; concentrate needs sugar and acid; puree needs breakdown behaviour.
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Why are kidney beans colour sorted?
Colour sorting on kidney beans removes discoloured, weathered and foreign seed that cooking will not hide, and it is the last line…
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How often should I test an imported food product?
There is no fixed frequency in law for most parameters. Frequency is set by risk: tighter on a new supplier and on…
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How do you read a certificate of analysis?
Check that it identifies the lot you received, that the method and its accreditation status are named, that units and basis match…
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How do you compare two supplier quotations properly?
Normalise both to the same delivery point, the same specification, the same packaging and the same payment terms before comparing anything. Most…
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Can a minimum order quantity be negotiated?
Often, but not by asking for a smaller number. An MOQ usually reflects a production run, a packaging order or a full…
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How should cold-pressed oils be stored?
Cool, dark, full and sealed. Oxygen, light, heat and catalytic metals drive degradation, and for the least stable oils such as flaxseed…
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How is aflatoxin testing done?
By a prescribed sampling scheme first, then screening by ELISA and confirmation by HPLC with fluorescence detection or LC-MS/MS. The sample plan…