ICS 67.060                          FAD 16

Reaffirmed 2022

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard (Part 2) (Second Revision) which is identical with ISO 712 : 2009 ‘Cereals and cereal products - Determination of moisture content - Reference method’ issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendation of the Foodgrains, Allied Products and Other Agricultural Produce Sectional Committee and approval of the Food and Agriculture Division Council.

This standard was first published in 1967 and then revised in 2002 to align it with ISO 712 : 1998 ‘Cereals and cereal products - Determination of moisture content - Routine reference method’ under dual numbering system. This revision has been undertaken to align it with the latest version of ISO 712 which has replaced ISO 712 : 1998 after incorporation of technical changes.

This standard is published in 5 parts under the general title ‘Methods of analysis for foodgrains’, the other parts are:

Part 1 Refractions

Part 3 Determination of bulk density, called mass per hectolitre

Part 4 Determination of the mass of 1 000 grains

Part 5 Determination of uric acid

The text of ISO Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations. Certain conventions and terminologies are, however, not identical to those used in Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following:

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

b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker while in Indian Standards, the current practice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.