ICUMSA is a worldwide body, which brings together the activities of the National Committees for Sugar Analysis in more than thirty member countries. It is solely concerned with analytic method standards, and the ICUMSA Methods Book contains detailed instructions for analyzing raw, cane, white, beet, molasses, plantation white and specialty sugars.

 

Before becoming the common white sugar most end-users use, sugar cane or beet have to be harvested, crushes and refined. The ICUMSA scale measures the level of sugar refining. The lower the indicator, the purer the sugar.

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SPECIFICATIONS

POLARITY: at 20ºC: 99.80º Minimum

SULPHATED ASH CONTENT: 0.04% Maximum by Weight

MOISTURE: 0.04% Maximum by Weight

MAGNETIC PARTICLES: mg/kg 4

SOLUBILITY: 100% Dry & free flowing

GRANULOMETRY: Fine Standard

ICUMSA: Colour 45 ICUMSA attenuation index Units (Method #10-1978) Maximum

AS: 1 P.P.M.

COLOUR: Brilliant White

REDUCING SUGAR: 0.010% Maximum in Dry Mass

RADIATION: Normal w/o presence of cesium or iodine SO2: mg/kg 20

HEAVY METALS, TOXIC ELEMENTS Maximum mg / kg basis

ARSENIC 0.50   CADMIUM 0.05   COPPER 1.00

LEAD 1.00   MERCURY 0.01   ZINC 3.00

PESTICIDE TRACES Maximum mg / kg basis

DDT 0.005   PHOTOXIN 0.01 HEXACHLORAN GAMMA ISOMER 0.005

MICROBIOLOGICAL LIMITS

PATHOGENIC BACTERIA including SALMONELLA per 25 gram:  Nil.

Bacillus per gram: Nil

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ORIGIN: BRAZIL

Minimum Quantity: 500 metric tons

Packaging: 50 kg pp bags