EUROPEAN NORMATIVE OF QUALITY OF THE AJOS - UNECE FFV 18

 

In the absence of officially publishing 

Product definition

The present norm talks about cultivated garlic varieties coming from the species Allium Sativum L., destined for being given to the consumer in fresh, semidry or dry state, excluding garlic destined to the industrial transformation and tender garlic (young ones), whose bulb is not yet developed.
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Minimum quality features

In every category, the bulbs must be:

Healthy
Firm
Clean
particularly without sand and visible remainders of installments or other treatment products.
Free from mould signals
Free from outside visible buds
Free from strange scent and flavour
Free from abnormal outer humidity

Labeling Norms

Red Label

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Green Label

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Yellow Label

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Labeling norms

R
Fresh, semidry or dry garlic
(if the content is not visible).
R
Commercial category
 
R
Caliber
(in calibrated case).
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R
Company identification
 
R
Zone of production or country of origin
for concerned products.
R
Net mass in kilograms
(in packages that constitute a single unit of sale destined to the final consumer).

Signing norms

It will be pointed out in the labels of the packing:

Denomination of the product.
 
d
Number of packages.
 
Name, Trade name or denomination of the company.
 
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Clasification

Category extra

Quality: Extra prime.

Shape: Regular.

Colour: Characteristic of the commercial type.

Aspect: The bulbs must be whole and clean, the teeth must be close-fisted.

Defects: None.

Quality Tolerance:  5% in mass of bulb that does not correspond to the characteristics of this category, but conform to category I

Caliber Tolerance:  10% in mass of bulbs of a higher or lower quality than the indicated in the package

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Nuestros ajos cumplen con la Normativa Europea de Calidad de los Ajos - UNECE FFV 18

Category I

Quality: Good.

Shape: Regular Enough

Colour: Enough relating to the commercial type

Aspect: The bulbs must be whole, the teeth must be sufficiently close-fisted.

Defects:  Small tears and swelling in the outer skin

Quality Tolerance:  10% by mass of bulbs that does not correspond to the characteristics of the category but in accordance with category II

Caliber Tolerance:  10% in mass of bulbs of a higher or lower quality than the indicated in the package.

Category II

Quality: Comercial.

Shape: Irregular.

Aspect: Fulfill the minimum quality characteristics

Defects: Injuries and small bruises whenever they do not harm his conservation and they dont affect more than two teeth

Quality Tolerance: 5% in mass of bulbs with outside visible buds and 10% in mass of bulbs that do not correspond with this category, but apt for the consumption

Tolerancia en calibre:  10% in mass of bulbs of a higher or lower quality than the indicated in the package.

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