Standards

This Code of Practice sets out the recommendations for the hygienic preparation of packaged natural coconut water including harvesting, processing, packaging, storing, transporting and distributing.

This Code of Practice details the essential principles of food hygiene within the food chain from primary production to the final consumer, stipulating the acceptable hygienic conditions for producing food that is safe and suitable for consumption.

This standard specifies composition, production, processing and handling of raw milk, heat treated liquid milk and factory milk for human consumption.

This Code of Practice gives guidelines for the preparation, processing and packaging of frozen fruit pulps and purées for use in the manufacture of fruit juices and nectars within the CARICOM region. This Code of Practice is applicable to pulps and purées obtained from edible fruits. It describes the requirements for pulps and purées and the methods of analysis to be used.

This standard applies to commercial varieties of limes grown from citrus aurantifolia to be supplied fresh to the consumer, after preparation and packaging. Limes for industrial processing are excluded.

This standard specifies the requirements for pineapples (Ananas comosus (L.) Merr. of the Bromoeliceae family), which are to be supplied fresh to the consumer at the import and export control stage, after preparation and packaging. This standard does not apply to pineapples for ornamental use or industrial processing

This standard specifies the quality requirements for pumpkin, Cucurbita pepo (Duch. Ex Lam.) to be supplied fresh to the consumer at the preparation and packaging stages. This standard does not apply to products for industrial processing.

This standard applies to Watermelon, Cirtullus lanatus (Thunb) to be supplied fresh to the consumer.

This standard applies to Watermelon, Cirtullus lanatus (Thumb) to be supplied fresh to the consumer.

The purpose of this standard is to provide the quality requirements for grades of watermelon in a lot.

This standard applies to Cucumber, Cucumis sativis (L) grown locally to be supplied fresh to the consumer.