Agricultural Product Standards Act, 1990 (Act No. 119 of 1990)

Regulations

Regulations relating to the Grading, Packing and Marking of Soft Wheat intended for sale in the Republic of South Africa

Part IV : Determination of Other Substances

12. Determination of undesirable odours and harmful substances
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A consignment of wheat or a sample of a consignment of wheat shall be sensorially assessed or chemically analysed in order to determine whether—

(a)it contains a substance that renders the wheat unfit for human consumption or for processing into or for utilisation as food or feed such as poisonous seeds, stones, glass, metal, coal or dung; and
(b) it has a musty, sour, rancid or other undesirable odour: Provided that a working sample of unscreened wheat that is ground in a grain mill to a fine meal may be used for the determination concerned.