EAST AFRICAN STANDARD FOR DRY BEANS
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Standards for dry common beans - Phaseolus vulgaris Linn - for consumption

  • Dry beans shall meet the following general requirements/limits as determined using the relevant standards listed.

    a) Shall be the dried mature seeds of Phaseolus vulgaris Linn;.

    b) Shall be well-filled, clean, wholesome, uniform in size, and shape;

    c) Shall be free from substances which render them unfit for human or animal consumption or processing into or utilisation thereof as food or feed;

    d) Shall be free from abnormal flavours, musty, sour or other undesirable odour, obnoxious smell and discolouration;.

    e) Shall be free from micro-organisms and substances originating from micro-organisms, fungi or other poisonous or deleterious substances in amounts that may constitute a hazard to human health.

  • Grading: Dry beans shall be graded into three grades on the basis of the tolerable limits established in the table below, which shall be additional to the general requirements set out in this standard.

    Ungraded dry beans: Shall be dry beans which do not fall within the requirements of Grades 1, 2, and 3 of this standard but are not rejected dry beans.

    Reject grade dry beans: Reject dry beans shall be beans which are musty, sour, heating, materially weathered, or weevily; which have any commercially objectionable odour; which contain insect webbing or filth, animal filth, any unknown foreign substance, broken glass, or metal fragments; or which are otherwise of distinctly low quality. The characteristics are not within the parameters specified in Table 1. They cannot satisfy the conditions of under grade dry beans and shall be graded as reject dry beans and shall be regarded as unfit for human or animal consumption.

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  • Dry beans shall be produced, prepared and handled in accordance with the provisions of appropriate sections of (EAS)

    When tested by appropriate standards of sampling and examination listed in Clause 2, the products shall:

    — shall be free from microorganisms in amounts which may represent a hazard to health and shall not exceed the limits stipulated in Table above;/p>

    — shall be free from parasites which may represent a hazard to health; and

    — shall not contain any substance originating from microorganisms in amounts which may represent a hazard to health.

    Microbiological limits