1-GENERAL PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS

 

Product: Frozen strawberries 'IQF'

 

Origin: Egypt

 

Class: A

 

Variety: Camarosa / Festival (as customer request)

 

Size: 24 – 36 mm

 

Product description: whole.

 

Process: washed, sorted, IQF, packed

 

Production date: 2014

 

2-PHYSICAL AND SENSORIAL CHARACTERISTICS

- Appearance: whole, typical, uniform variety

- Color: typical, without oxidation

- Aroma: typical of strawberry

- Taste: typical of strawberry

- Consistency: Firm

Foreign materials:

Animal (insects, worms, larvae): - not permitted

Vegetable: calyx or fragment - up to 3mm max./1 kg fruit

Stalks or fragment - up to 3mm max./1 kg fruit

Leave and stalk <1cm     max 5%

Other fruits - not permitted

Rot / mould - not permitted

Overripe - < 2%

Under ripe - < 1%

Deformed fruits - < 1%

Distorted - < 1%

Pink fruits - < 7%

Others: wood / earth / straw etc. - not permitted

3. CHEMICAL SPECIFICATIONS

- Brix: Min. 7,0

- PH: 3,60 - 3,80

- Acidity (in citric acid): 0.02: 0.03 %

4. MICROBIOLOGICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Total plate count: < 50000 cfu / g

 

Total coli forms: Max 10 / GM

 

Yeasts < 1.000 cfu/g

 

Moulds < 1.000 cfu/g

 

Salmonella: absent

 

E. Coli: absent

 

Listeria monocyt: Absent

Total Quality tolerance

Unripe fruit: Max 1%

 

Overripe fruit: Max 2%

 

Mechanically damaged fruit: Max 7%

 

Mould fruit: Max 0,1%

 

Leave and stalk <1cm: Max 5 % 

 

Fruit with remain of stalks: Max 2 % 

 

Humidity: 90 – 92%

 

Brix: 7 – 9 %

 

P.H: 3.6 : 3.8 %

 

Citric Acid: 0.02 : 0.03 %

Coli form: Max 10/

GM Salmonella: Free

E.Coli: Free

 

5. CONTAMINANTS AND LEGISLATIVE REFERENCES

Food contaminants (heavy metals, pesticides, mycotoxins, radioactivity, dioxins.) within the European directives and regulation limits.

Product without additives such as anti foam agents, preservatives, artificial aromas or colors, and without GMO products.

 

Packing available: 10 K.G in bags into carton box,

25 K.G in p.p bags, 1 K.G in bags into carton box 8 K.G (according costumer request).

Container takes about 22 tons

 

PACKING / TRANSPORT / STORAGE

Packing: Primary packaging: plastic bag without staples or other

Metallic items

Secondary packaging: Carton bag without staples or other metallic items,

Closed with Transparent tape.

Palletization: Epal pallet 80x120cm.

Transport: goods must be transported in clean vehicles, without smell and residues of the previous.

 

Storage: at a temperature of -18°C .

 OTHER CONDITIONS, Shelf life: 18 months after production date 

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