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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-sugar-products-scotland-regulations-2003/schedule-1/part-I",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2003/527",
  "legislation_title": "The Specified Sugar Products (Scotland) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-sugar-products-scotland-regulations-2003",
  "path": "schedule/1/part/I",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "I",
  "heading": "SPECIFIED SUGAR PRODUCTS AND THEIR RESERVED DESCRIPTIONS",
  "text": "Column 1\nColumn 2\nReserved Descriptions\nSpecified Sugar Products\n1 Semi-white sugar\nPurified and crystallised sucrose of sound and fair marketable quality with the following characteristics:–\n(a)polarisation not less than 99.5°Z;\n(b)invert sugar content not more than 0.1% by weight;\n(c)loss on drying not more than 0.1% by weight.\n2 Sugar or white sugar\nPurified and crystallised sucrose of sound and fair marketable quality with the following characteristics:–\n(a)polarisation not less than 99.7°Z;\n(b)invert sugar content not more than 0.04% by weight;\n(c)loss on drying not more than 0.06% by weight;\n(d)type of colour not more than nine points determined in accordance with paragraph 2 of Part II of this Schedule.\n3 Extra-white sugar\nThe product having the characteristics referred to in item 2(a), (b) and (c) of this Schedule and in respect of which the total number of points determined according to the provisions of paragraphs 2 to 4 of Part II of this Schedule does not exceed eight, and not more than:\n– four for the colour type;\n– six for the ash content;\n– three for the colour in solution.\n4 Sugar solution\nThe aqueous solution of sucrose with the following characteristics:–\n(a)dry matter not less than 62% by weight;\n(b)invert sugar content (ratio of fructose to dextrose 1.0 ± 0.2) not more than 3% by weight of dry matter;\n(c)conductivity ash not more than 0.1% by weight of dry matter, determined in accordance with paragraph 3 of Part II of this Schedule;\n(d)colour in solution not more than 45 ICUMSA units.\n5 Invert sugar solution\nThe aqueous solution of sucrose partially inverted by hydrolysis, in which the proportion of invert sugar does not predominate, with the following characteristics:–\n(a)dry matter not less than 62% by weight;\n(b)invert sugar content (ratio of fructose to dextrose 1.0 ±0.1) more than 3% but not more than 50% by weight of dry matter;\n(c)conductivity ash not more than 0.4% by weight of dry matter, determined in accordance with paragraph 3 of Part II of this Schedule.\n6 Invert sugar syrup\nThe aqueous solution, whether or not crystallised, of sucrose that has been partly inverted via hydrolysis, in which the invert sugar content (ratio of fructose to dextrose 1.0 ± 0.1), must exceed 50% by weight of dry matter, but which must otherwise meet the requirements laid down in item 5(a) and (c) of this Part.\n7 Glucose syrup\nThe purified and concentrated aqueous solution of nutritive saccharides obtained from starch and/or inulin, with the following characteristics:–\n(a)dry matter not less than 70% by weight;\n(b)dextrose equivalent not less than 20% by weight of dry matter and expressed as D-glucose, determined in accordance with paragraph 10 of Part II of this Schedule;\n(c)sulphated ash not more than 1% by weight of dry matter.\n8 Dried glucose syrup\nPartially dried glucose syrup with at least 93% by weight of dry matter, but which must otherwise meet the requirements laid down in item 7(b) and (c) of this Part.\n9 Dextrose or dextrose monohydrate\nPurified and crystallised D-glucose containing one molecule of water of crystallisation, with the following characteristics:–\n(a)dextrose (D-glucose) not less than 99.5% by weight of dry matter, determined in accordance with paragraph 10 of Schedule 2;\n(b)dry matter not less than 90% by weight;\n(c)sulphated ash not more than 0.25% by weight of dry matter.\n10 Dextrose or dextrose anhydrous\nPurified and crystallised D-glucose not containing water of crystallisation, with at least 98% by weight of dry matter, but which must otherwise meet the requirements laid down in item 9(a) and (c) of this Part.\n11 Fructose\nPurified crystallised D-fructose with the following characteristics:–\n(a)fructose content 98% minimum;\n(b)glucose content 0.5% maximum;\n(c)loss on drying not more than 0.5% by weight;\n(d)conductivity ash not more than 0.1% by weight determined in accordance with paragraph 3 of Part II of this Schedule.",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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