Product Denotation: Sapindus Mukorossi (Soapnut)
Product Description: Soap nut shells, pitted and seedless soap nuts with diameter 2 – 3 cm, golden yellow color in winter and dark reddish in summers and blackish thereafter.
1. Qualitative Characteristics
Product specifications: The soapnuts exhibit a healthy & fresh appearance & are mostly separate, not adhering to each other.
1.1 Physical Characteristics
The soapnut is:
Free of spoilage
Free of damages inflicted by insects or diseases
Free of plant origin constituents
Free of hard and woody parts
1.2 Limit Values
The inspection of conformance within limit values can be done through a test of 1000 g. from a composite sample. The following values are followed:
Fault | Description | maximum in 1000 g |
Break / Crumble | pieces that are smaller than 10% of the whole soapnut | 2 % |
2. Sensory Properties
Smell: typical
Consistency: firm, yet elastic. Not overdried or stale.
3. Physiochemical Standards
Parameters | Value / Fluctuation range | Legal Value |
Sand | < 0,1 % | Practically free (guidelines) |
Chlorine/ Insecticides/ Pesticides | According to the Ordinance on Maximum Level of Residues |
Heavy metals | According to the Ordinance on Maximum Level of Contaminants |
4. Packing: The product can be packed according packing instructions given, normally material is packed in 12/25 kg cartons of 5/7 ply. Retail packing in PE bags/Cotton bags (printed as well as non-printed), wash bags can be done on request. All packing is Seaworthy.
5. Genetic Requirements: The product is not a genetically modified organism (GVO), does not contain any GVO & has not been manufactured from a GVO.
The packaging material, the raw goods as well as the finished product are stored, processed, handled appropriately & protected from all quality reducing influences under hygienically perfect conditions.
