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TISI's Standard for Desiccated Coconut : TIS 320 - 2522(1979)

Thai Industrial Standards TIS 320-2522 (1979) Standard for Desiccated Coconut

Date of Establishment: 2 November 1979
Date of Public Notice in the Government Gazette: 20 February 1980

In the event of any doubt or misunderstanding arising from this translation, the standard in Thai will be held to be authoritative.

1. Scope

1.1

This standard specifies grades, requirements, food additives, hygiene, container, weight and measure, marking and labeling, sampling and criteria for conformity and test and analysis for desiccated coconut.

2. Definition
For the purpose of this standard, the following definition applies:

2.1

DESICCATED COCONUT: The product obtained by drying the granulated or shredded white meat of the fully mature coconut kernel, Cocos nucifera Linn. by means of a mechanical air drying.

3. Grades
Desiccated coconut shall be of 5 grades when classified on the basis of article sizes by means of mechanical sifting.

	3.1	Coarse shall be as follows. 3.1.1 Particle size: 3.35 mm to 4.76 mm, not more than 15% by weight 3.1.2 Particle size: 2.00 mm to 3.35 mm, not less than 70$ by weigh 3.1.3 Particle size: less than 1.AU mm, not more than 2.5$ by weight
	3.2	Medium shall be as follows. 3.2.1 Particle size: 2.00 mm. to 2.80 mm, not more than 15% by weight 3.2.2 Particle size: 1.40 mm to 2.00 mm, not less than 70% by weight 3.2.3 Particle size: less than 1.00 mm, not more than 2.5% by weight
	3.3	Fine shall be of 1.40 mm to 1.68 mm, not more than 15% by weight.
	3.4	Super fine shall be of less than 1.00 mm.
	3.5	Fancy type shall be of the bigger size and of the shape different from those specified in clauses 3.1 to 3.4. Remark: The sieve aperture size in mm is equivalent to B.S. mesh No. as given in the table below.

The sieve aperture sizemm	B.S. meshNo.
1.00	16
1.40	12
1.68	10
2.00	8
2.80	6
3.35	5
4.76	-

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