IQF strawberry slices spec

Specification for IQF slice strawberry

1. Description of Product:

IQF sliced strawberries, width 5-6mm,variety senga sengana,Am13 or Honey. All strawberries are of Chinese origin, to be without calyx, without stalks, cleanly washed, carefully sorted, without molded strawberries, without rotten strawberries, metal detected and free from any foreign substance.

B. Packaging:
1x10kg/ctn with blue polybags inside and the buyer’s labels printed on two sides of cartons.

C.Standard Analytical Data(per 10kg).

Brix level: 7.0-7.5

Size: width 5-6mm

Colour: minimum 98% fruits of fine regular red strawberries color.

Taste: typical of the strawberries, without any off-taste.

Unripe and overripe fruits: each max.1% by weight.

Broken-damaged squashed dices: Max 2% by weight.

Clumps less than 3 fruits: under 1% by weight.

Calyx:  Max 1 piece.

Leaves:  Max 1 piece.

Metal/glass/plastic/stone/sand/soil or any other FMV/EVM: Non-existence.

Contamination: pesticides, fungicides, metals, mycotoxines, radioactivity, according to EEC regulations.

Microbiology: NO apparent disease.

Storage and transporting: cleanly stored and transported at or under temperature of minus 18 degrees centigrade (DC).

D. Microbiological Description:

(1) T.V.C. 10000/G
(2) Yeast <50CFU/G
(3) Moulds <50CFU/G
(4) Salmonella NIL
(5) Pathogenic bacteria NIL
(6) Coliforms NIL
(7) E.coli NIL