Standards

This standard applies to passion fruit Passiflora edulis, grown to be supplied fresh to consumers.

This standard applies to varieties of grain of Cowpea Vigna unguiculata.

This standard specifies the quality requirements of all commercial cultivars of bananas obtained from the Musa spp., of the Musaceae family, in the green state and offered fresh to consumers, after they have been processed, packaged and conditioned.

This standard shall not apply to:

a)                  cooking bananas;

b)                 plantains;

c)                  bananas for industrial manufacturing.

This standard applies to commercial varieties of cassava grown from (Manihot dulcis baill and Manihot esculenta crantz) to be supplied fresh to the consumer, after preparation and packaging. Cassavas for industrial processing are excluded.

This standard applies to commercial varieties of cassava grown from (Manihot dulcis baill and Manihot esculenta crantz) to be supplied fresh to the consumer, after preparation and packaging. Cassavas for industrial processing are excluded.

This standard specifies the requirements of sweet peppers (Capsicum annuum L. var. grossum) which are to be supplied fresh to the consumer market at the export or import control stages, after preparation and packaging. The standard does not apply to sweet peppers for industrial processing.

This standard specifies the quality requirements of tomatoes of varieties (cultivars) grown from Lycopersicum esculentum Mill., which are to be supplied fresh to the consumer after reparation and packaging. The standard does not apply to tomatoes for industrial processing. Tomatoes covered under this standard may be classified into four commercial types: a) “round”; b) “ribbed”; c) “oblong” or “elongated”; and d) “cherry” tomatoes (including “cocktail” tomatoes).

This standard specifies the requirements for processed poultry carcasses, poultry parts and poultry products for human consumption. It gives definitions of the market classes of poultry and requirements for sanitation, plant hygiene, the dressing operation, grading, packaging, labelling and marketing as well as ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection of poultry products imported and locally produced and processed poultry. It does not apply to freshly killed poultry prepared for direct sale to consumers for which conditions may be prescribed in National Regulations.

This standard establishes requirements for grades of paddy, cargo rice, milled rice; cargo parboiled rice and milled parboiled rice.  It also specifies the general conditions for sampling and the methodologies for assessing the various factors used in the determination of the quality of rice.