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Quality Control
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What grading standards apply to fruit in the EU?
Fresh produce falls under EU marketing standards. Frozen, dried and processed fruit does not, and is graded by contract specification against Codex…
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Pulse Cleaning, Sorting and Grading: What Each Machine Removes and What It Costs You
How a pulse cleaning line is built, which defect each machine removes, why a tolerance is meaningless without a sample mass and…
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Cooking Specifications for Pulses: Turning Kitchen Behaviour into a Contract Clause
Why the same lot cooks differently in two kitchens, what hard seed and case hardening actually are, how to design a reproducible…
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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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Which packaging materials count as food grade?
Food grade is not a property of a material but a documented conclusion about a specific material used in a specific way.…
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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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What does ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation mean?
It means an accreditation body has assessed a laboratory as competent to perform specified methods on specified matrices. It is granted against…
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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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Kraft Paper Sacks vs Carton Boxes
Kraft paper sack or corrugated carton box for dry food exports: stacking strength, humidity, fill weight, palletising and when each one fails.