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FSSAI notifies amended norms for maida, semolina, jowar and bajra flour
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Saturday, 27 March, 2021, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Ashwani Maindola, New Delhi
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The FSSAI has notified the Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) First Amendment Regulations, 2021, related to cereal and cereal products including maida, semolina, jowar, and bajra flour.
For maida, the amended regulations added two more parameters including ‘Granularity % and uric acid. The regulations say that maida should conform 98% Granularity and should pass through 212micron IS sieve (70mesh) while the uric acid content should not be more than 100 mg/kg.
The regulations, however, clarify that the parameter ‘Granularity’ will not be applicable for intermediate products which are not meant for direct consumption.
According to the definition, maida (refined wheat flour) means the product obtained from the clean grains of wheat by grinding or milling processes in which the bran and germ are essentially removed and the remainder is comminuted to a suitable degree of fineness.
Similarly, for semolina (suji or rawa), the new regulations added two parameters in the standards including alcoholic acidity and uric acid.
Alcoholic acidity (with 90 per cent alcohol) expressed as H2SO4, % on dry mass basis, not more than 0.15 while uric acid should be 100mg/kg.
For jowar (sorghum grains) the notified regulations also laid standards that include a new parameter of immature and shrivelled grains, % by mass, not more than 8.0 %.
According to the standards notified, sorghum grains are whole or decorticated grains obtained from species of Sorghum Vulgare Pers. These shall be sweet, hard, clean and wholesome and can be of two types (a) Whole sorghum grains.- These are sorghum grains obtained as such after a complete threshing without any further treatment and (b) Decorticated (pearled) sorghum grains.- These are sorghum grains from which the external casings and whole or parts of the germ have been removed in an appropriate manner, using mechanical treatment.
For jowar flour, the standards laid by these regulations added parameter -particle size- and minimum 80 per cent should pass through a 1 mm sieve (18 mesh) while for bajra flour (pearl millet) the particle size must pass through 1mm sieve (18 mesh).
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