ARS 58: White sugar _ Specification

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ARS 58 (2012) (English): White sugar _
Specification

AFRICAN CD-ARS
STANDARD 58

Second Edition 2012

White sugar — Specification

Reference No. ARS 58:2012(E)
ICS 67.180.10

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Table of contents

1 Scope ....................................................................................................................................... 1
2 Normative references .............................................................................................................. 1
3 Definitions ................................................................................................................................ 2
4 Requirements .......................................................................................................................... 3
4.1 General requirements .............................................................................................................. 3
4.2 Compositional requirements .................................................................................................... 3
5 Food additives ......................................................................................................................... 3
6 Metal contaminants .................................................................................................................. 4
6.1 Pesticide residues .................................................................................................................... 4
6.2 Metals ...................................................................................................................................... 4
6.3 Mycotoxins ............................................................................................................................... 4
7 Hygiene .................................................................................................................................... 4
7.1 General requirements .............................................................................................................. 4
8 Packaging ................................................................................................................................ 5
9 Labelling................................................................................................................................... 5
10 Method of sampling ................................................................................................................. 5
10.1 General requirements for sampling ......................................................................................... 5
10.2 Scale of sampling .................................................................................................................... 6
10.3 Preparation of sample .............................................................................................................. 6
11 Methods of test — Determination of pesticide residues .......................................................... 6
Bibliography ............................................................................................................................................ 7

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Foreword

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Introduction

This African Standard is a technical revision of the earlier ARS 58:1986(E), White sugar —
Specification which is hereby superseded and cancelled.

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AFRICAN STANDARD CD-ARS 58:2012(E)

White sugar — Specification

1 Scope

This African Standard specifies the requirements, methods of sampling and testing for white sugar
(plantation or mill white sugar and refined white sugar) intended for human consumption.

2 Normative references

The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated
references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced
document (including any amendments) applies.

ARS 53, General principles of food hygiene — Code of practice

ARS 56, Prepackaged foods — Labelling

CODEX Stan 192, General standard for food additives

CODEX STAN 193, Codex general standard for contaminants and toxins in food and feed

ICUMSA Method GS 2/3-1, The Braunschweig Method for the Polarisation of White Sugar by
Polarimetry — Official (Reference) Method

ICUMSA Method GS 2/3/9-5, The Determination of Reducing Sugars in Purified Sugars by the Knight
and Allen EDTA Method — Official (Reference) Method

ICUMSA Method GS 2/9-6, The Determination of Reducing Sugars in White Sugar and Plantation
White Sugar by the Modified Ofner Titrimetric Method — Official

ICUMSA Method GS 3/4/7/8-11, The determination of sulphated ash in brown sugar, juice, syrup and
molasses

ICUMSA Method GS 2/3/9-17, The Determination of Conductivity Ash in Refined Sugar Products and
in Plantation White Sugar — Official

ICUMSA Method GS 2/1/3/9-15, The Determination of Sugar Moisture by Loss on Drying

ICUMSA Method GS 9/1/2/3-8, The Determination of Sugar Solution Colour at pH 7.0 by the MOPS
Method

ICUMSA Method GS 2/3/9-19, The determination of insoluble matter in white sugar by membrane
filtration

ICUMSA Method GS 2/1/3-27, The determination of lead in sugar products by a colorimetric method

ICUMSA Method GS 2/3-24, The Determination of Lead in Sugars and Syrups by a GFAAS Method

ICUMSA Method GS 2/3-29, The Determination of Copper in Refined Sugar Products by a
Colorimetric Method

ICUMSA Method GS 2/3/9-25, The Determination of Arsenic in Refined Sugar Products by a
Colorimetric Method

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ICUMSA Method GS 2/1/7/9-33, The Determination of Sulphite by the Rosaniline Colorimetric Method
in White Sugar — Official (Reference) Method; in VVHP** Raw Sugar — Tentative; in Cane Sugar
Juices and Syrups — Accepted; and in Plantation White Sugar — Accepted

ISO 4832, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for the enumeration of
coliforms — Colony-count technique

ISO 4833, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for the enumeration of
microorganisms — Colony-count technique at 30 degrees C

ISO 6579, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for the detection of
Salmonella spp.

ISO 6888-1, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for the enumeration
of coagulase-positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus and other species) — Part 1: Technique
using Baird-Parker agar medium

ISO 6888-2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for the enumeration
of coagulase-positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus and other species) — Part 2: Technique
using rabbit plasma fibrinogen agar medium

ISO 6888-3, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for the enumeration
of coagulase-positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus and other species) — Part 3: Detection
and MPN technique for low numbers

ISO 7251, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for the detection and
enumeration of presumptive Escherichia coli — Most probable number technique

ISO 21527-2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for the
enumeration of yeasts and moulds — Part 2: Colony count technique in products with water activity
less than or equal to 0.95

ISO 21567, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for the detection of
Shigella spp.

3 Definitions

For the purpose of this standard the following definitions apply.

3.1
plantation white sugar
mill white sugar
white sugar commonly manufactured by the vacuum-pan-process from sugar cane

3.2
refined white sugar
purified and granulated sugar, manufactured from any raw sugar, such as plantation (mill) sugar, by
the process of purification consisting broadly of affination, melting, chemical treatment, filtration,
decolourisation and recrystallisation

3.3
ICUMSA unit
international unit developed by International Commission for Universal Methods of Sugar Analysis
(ICUMSA) for expressing the purity of sugar and is directly related to the colour of sugar

3.4
polarisation
estimate of the sucrose content of sugar expressed as degrees of polarization
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