IS 10226 : Part 1 : 1982/ISO 5498 : 1981 Method for determination of crude fibre content: Part 1 General method

National Foreword

This Indian Standard (Part I), which is Identical with ISO 5498-1981 ‘Agricultural food products - Determination of crude fibre content - General method, issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), was adopted by the Indian Standards Institution on the recommendation of the Food Hygiene Sectional Committee and approved by the Agricultural and Food Products Division Council.

Part II of this standard [IS : 10226 (Part II)-1982 Method for determination of crude fibre content in food products : Part II Modified Scharrer method], is based on ISO 6541-1981 ‘Agricultural food products - Determination of crude fibre content - Modified Scharrer method.

In the adopted standard, certain terminology and conventions are not identical with those used in Indian Standard; attention is especially drawn to the following :

a) Comma (,) has been used as decimal marker, while In Indian Standards the current practice is to use full point (.) as the decimal marker; and

b) Wherever the words ‘International Standard’ appear, referring to this standard, they should be read as ‘Indian Standard’,