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Division Chemical properties

United Kingdom

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‘Suikerstroop’ has an apparent purity of at least 73 %. The extract content should be at least 80 %, and the ash content of ‘suikerstroop’ may not be higher than 4 %.

Notes on Division

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f1

Replaced by Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 on quality schemes for agricultural products and foodstuffs.

Notes on Division 3.5

Footnotes

f1

Measure of the concentration of dissolved solids (in this case sugar) in an aqueous solution determined using a refractometer.

f2

ICUMSA (International Commission for Uniform Methods of Sugar Analysis) Units. The higher the IU, the darker the colour.

It is an indirect measure of purity.