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FSSAI replaces stds for desiccated coconut with newer version
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Monday, 10 April, 2023, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Ashwani Maindola, New Delhi
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The food authority has replaced the entire set of standards for desiccated coconut and notified the newer version through Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Second Amendment Regulations, 2023, which shall come into force on September 1, 2023.
According to the notification, “Desiccated Coconut” means the product - (a) prepared by peeling, milling, grating and drying the sound white kernel obtained from the whole nut of coconut (Cocos nucifera L.), having reached appropriate development for processing, without oil extraction; (b) processed in an appropriate manner, undergoing operations such as de-husking, hatcheting, paring, washing, comminuting, drying and sifting; and (c) described in points (a) and (b) from which oil has been partially extracted by appropriate physical means.
Also, the product may be presented in the form of powder, flakes, chips and shreds, which shall be white to light creamy white in colour and shall be free from foreign matter, living insects, mould, dead insects, insect fragments and rodent contamination and the product shall have pleasant taste and flavour, free from rancidity and evidence of fermentation.
The product was required to be conforming parameters including moisture % m/m (max) at 3.0, total acidity of the extracted oil measured as lauric acid % m/m (max) at 0.3, oil content % m/m for without oil extraction (min) 60.0 and 35.0 to 60.0 for partial oil extraction, total ash % m/m (max) 2.5, extraneous vegetable material, fragments per 100 g (max) 15 and foreign matter in 100 g should be absent.
And the labelling requirement for such products prescribe that the product having oil content 35 to 60 per cent shall be labelled as “Reduced Fat Desiccated Coconut”.
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