Fortified Wheat Flour - Specification

This Ethiopian Standard specifies the requirements for wheat flour prepared by milling cleaned hard wheat or soft wheat or blends thereof intended for the baking of bread, biscuits and other bakery products and for the manufacture of pasta products. The Standard specifies general requirements, follow: Fortified wheat flour shall be free from rancidity, insect and fungal infestation and rodent contamination. It shall also be free from fermented, musts or other objectionable odor. It shall not have adulterants and any other extraneous matter. Moreover the Standard provides for Chemical requirements, Fortification requirements, food additives, maximum contaminant levels, as well as packaging and labelling conditions. Fortified wheat flour shall be packed in suitable packages which shall be clean, sound, free from insects and fungal infestation, and the packing material shall be of food grade quality.