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

Regulations

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

Quality Standards

4. Standards for white wheat flours, brown wheat flours, whole-wheat flours and composite cereal flours

 

Subject to the provisions of regulation 2 these wheat flours—

 

(1) shall have a moisture content not exceeding 14 percent;

 

(2) shall contain the fraction of the milled wheat below the standard sieve when sieved through a 212 micron wire mesh sieve, and therefore shall contain no separated wheat semolina;

 

(3) shall contain a fraction of wheat bran above the 212-micron standard sieve in the case of flour classes with a defined wheat bran content;

 

(4) shall be pure, sound, and free from rancid or off-flavour, odours and insects;

 

(5)
(i) shall be fortified in terms of the Foodstuffs, Cosmetics Disinfectants Act, 1972 (Act No. 54 of 1972); and
(ii) may contain flour improvers.

 

(6) in the case of soft wheat flour —
(a) be a white wheat flour milled from a soft wheat; and
(b) not contain separated wheat bran, wheat germ or wheat semolina.

 

(7) in the case of cake wheat flour—
(a) have an ash content not exceeding 0,65 percent; and
(b) shall not contain separated wheat bran, wheat germ or wheat semolina.

 

(8) in the case of industrial wheat flour—
(a) have an ash content of not less than 0,85 percent;
(b) contain a maximum of 1,0 percent wheat bran with a particle size greater than 212 micron; and
(c) shall not contain separated wheat germ or wheat semolina.

 

(9) in the case of self-raising wheat flour—
(a) contain a leavening or raising agent which has been added according to the regulations promulgated in terms of the Foodstuffs, Cosmetics and Disinfectants Act, 1972 (Act No. 54 of 1972); and
(b) contain wheat flour which complies with the applicable requirements in subregulations 4(6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12), (13), (14) and (15).

 

(10) in the case of all-purpose wheat flour—
(a) have an ash content of not less than 0,55 percent and not exceeding 0,75 percent; and
(b) contain no separated wheat bran, wheat germ or wheat semolina.

 

(11) in the case of white bread wheat flour—
(a) have an ash content of not less than 0,60 percent and not exceeding 1,0 percent; and
(b) contain no separated wheat bran, wheat germ or wheat semolina.

 

(12) in the case of brown bread wheat flour—
(a) have an ash content not exceeding 1,0 percent obtained from the flour fraction that passed through a 212 micron standard sieve;
(b) have a wheat bran content of not less than 10 percent and not exceeding 15 percent; and
(c) contain no separated wheat germ or wheat semolina.

 

(13) in the case of high bran wheat flour—
(a) have an ash content not exceeding 1,0 percent obtained from the flour fraction that passed through a 212 micron sieve;
(b) have a wheat bran content of not less than 15 percent; and
(c) contain no separated wheat germ or wheat semolina.

 

(14) in the case of whole-wheat brown flour—
(a) contains all the components present in a wheat kernel including one or more of the following ingredients which shall be in the flour at a level not less than10 percent; whole wheat, cracked wheat, crushed wheat and cut wheat;
(b) have an ash content not exceeding 1,0 percent obtained from the flour fraction that passed through a 212 micron sieve;
(c) have a wheat bran content of not less than 10 percent;
(d) may contain wheat germ; and
(e) contain no separated wheat semolina.

 

(15) in the case of whole-wheat flour—
(a) includes all the components present in a wheat kernel obtained through the milling of the whole wheat kernel.

 

(16) in the case of composite cereals flour—
(a) contain at least 50 percent wheat flour which has been blended with non–wheat flours and/or grains and/or seeds and/or legumes and/or pulses; and
(b) have a wheat flour component made up of wheat flour(s) which complies with the applicable requirements in subregulations 4(6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12), (13), (14) and (15).