IQF Black Currant

Product Specifications

Markets:	North America,South America,Eastern Europe,Southeast Asia,Africa,Oceania,Mid East,Eastern Asia,Western Europe
Processing:	IQF
Type:	Agricultural Products
Style:	Whole

Product Description

1. Main points:
Blackcurrant should correspond with the definition «IQF», i.. should be quick frozen fruits with the temperature inside any part of container equal or less -18 0 . Raw materials used should be fresh and of a good quality. As chilling agents one may use nitrogen, air or carbon dioxide only. IQF blackcurrant should be really individual with no aggregation between each other.
2. Sampling:
According to GOST 29187-91 «Quick frozen fruits and berries. Main technical conditions.»
3. Organoleptic:
Appearance
Berries of one vegetable sort well-ripened, clean, without
sepals and pedicles, not added freeze, not damaged, not putrid or
moldy
Color (after defrosting) Dark black, or black with no color variations
Taste and odor
(after defrosting)
Correspond to fresh blackcurrant with no off-tastes and/or odors,
taste of old or bad-ripened berries is forbidden
Consistency
(after defrosting)
As close as possible to the consistency of fresh blackcurrant
Size of berries Dia: 5-15mm
4. Chemical characteristics
Brix >10°
Titratable acidity (to =8,1, calc. as citric acid) 2,8 -3,6 %
5. Impurities
Stalks < 10 mm. Max. 2 per kg
Stalks > 10 mm - Absent .
Leaf < 4 mm. Max. 5 per kg
Leaf > 4 mm -Absent.
Unripe white and green - Absent
Unripe light and red - Max. 10 per kg
Shriveled - Max 5 per kg
Foreign materials (wood, paper, snails, stones, insects, etc) - Absent.
5. Microbiology
Yeast Max. 10 per 1 gram
Mould Max. 10 per 1 gram
Pathogenic bacteria Absent
Total coliforms in 0,1g Not allowed
Escherichia coli, , listeria, etc. in 25g Not allowed
6.Packaging
Mainly three-layer paper bags with polyethylene (PE) insert with net mass 10-25kg of IQF berries. One may use different packaging
materials. Packaging materials and packaging systems used ensure food preservation from any external contamination, without
modification of any organoleptic, physical and chemical characteristics. Furthermore those materials should be in conformity with
what forecasted by rules for food contact packaging materials.
8. Labeling
Labels should be placed on a sticker or directly on a transportation packaging in any clear way and should content key points as
follows (obligatory in Russian):
Product name;
Country of origin;
Company name and address of manufacturer;
Net mass ;
Storage conditions;
Production date;
Expiration date;
Type of chilling.
9. Transportation and storage
IQF berries should transport in special refrigerators with thermal registration equipment.
Thermal sheets are obligatory on demand of buyer
Relative humidity of air not more than 95%
Shelf life not less than 2 years from production date
Freezing after defrosting is forbidden