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Division 1 White sugar of the standard quality shall have the following characteristics:

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  1. (a)

    sound, fair and marketable quality; dry, in homogeneous granulated crystals, free-flowing;

  2. (b)

    minimum polarisation: 99,7;

  3. (c)

    maximum moisture content: 0,06 %;

  4. (d)

    maximum invert sugar content: 0,04 %;

  5. (e)

    the number of points determined under point 2 not exceeding a total of 22, nor:

    • 15 for the ash content,

    • 9 for the colour type, determined using the method of the Brunswick Institute of Agricultural Technology ("the Brunswick method"),

    • 6 for the colouring of the solution, determined using the method of the International Commission for Uniform Methods of Sugar Analysis ("the ICUMSA method").