|
PARAMETER |
REQUIREMENTS |
COMMENTS
I VARIATIONS |
| Physical
Characteristics |
The Broad beans shall have a clean
and bright appearance and shall be milled
from hard and well-filled Broad Beans. |
|
Purity |
99% min. by weight |
Split
and whole broad beans caps but excludes
detached seed coats. |
| Moisture
|
14% max |
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| Defective
Broad Beans |
7% max. by weight |
Broad Beans not of the specified variety
and Broad Bean, cotyledons seed that are
grub eaten, prouted, broken,frosted, hail damaged, heat damaged, affected by
field mould, whole pods containing seed
and immature Broad beans, caps, whole
unshelled Broad beans and poor colour
Broad beans |
| Caps |
1% max. by weight |
Seed coats adhering to split or broken
seed |
| Poor
Colour |
3% max. by weight of immature Broad beans |
Broad
beans with green cotyledons seed from
premature ripening and discoloured
beans with cotyledons seed distinctly
off colour from
the characteristic colour of the predominating class. Includes Ascochtya lesions. |
| Foreign Material |
1% maxby weight |
Includes unmilable material and all
vegetable matter other than broad bean
seed material, but includes detached Seed
coats |
| Unmillable
Material |
Not more than one (1) stone per kg |
Soil, stones, metals and non-vegetable
matter |
| Broken
or Kibbled Broad Beans |
4% max. by weight |
Broad bean seed material that passes
through a 7.00 mm round hole
screen. |
| Screen Size |
7.00mm round hole |
Broken or kibble if falls through |
| Detached Seed Coats |
0.1% max. by weight |
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| Field
Insects |
Nil Tolerance |
Dead per 200g sample |
| Objectionable
Material |
Nil Tolerance |
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