Objective Within the Community and in order to meet the needs of International trade, flour must conform to quality specifications determined either by industrial users or Regulations.Standard methods exist, which can be used to check compliance with specifications, but there is currently non certified reference material available to check the required range of chemical and physical tests. In order to comply with laboratory accreditation schemes, analysts are often forced to prepare and validate "in house" reference material.In order to improve this situation and conform to International standards, the project aimed to prepare a standard, reference flour certified for 17 flour quality parameters.This is the first time that a suitable reference flour has been available for this range of rheological properties. It is of great benefit because the potential market is very large as there are thousands of laboratories, backeries and food manufacturers in Europe. This project has also led to the development of a reliable technique to preserve flour over a long time without notable evolution of their rheological properties.A commercially milled flour was blended, sub-sampled and packaged in vacuum sealed, laminated sachets. Sample homogeneity was confirmed by appropriate chemical and rheological tests. Stability has been established previously over a 12 month period. Conformity checks performed after 12 months also showed no evidence of deviation in the selected parameters. Fourteen laboratories in nine countries participated in a certification exercise to produce certified values and uncertainties for moisture, protein et ash contents, falling number, zeleny sedimentation volume plus dough rheology characteristics as measured by Chopin Alveograph, Farinograph and Extensograph. Fields of science natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesgeologysedimentologynatural sciencesbiological sciencesbiochemistrybiomoleculesproteinssocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementcommerce Programme(s) FP3-MAT - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of measurements and testing, 1990-1994 Topic(s) Data not available Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator BUREAU INTERPROFESSIONEL ETUDES ANALYTIQUES Address Avenue louis roche, 6-14 92230 Gennevilliers France See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (3) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CAMPDEN AND CHORLEYWOOD FOOD RESEARCH ASSOCIATION GROUP United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address --,station road GL556LD Chipping campden,glouste See on map Société Coopérative Agricole de Romilly Mery France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 23 avenue du château 10101 Romilly-sur-seine See on map TEAGASC - AGRICULTURE AND FOOD DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Ireland EU contribution € 0,00 Address 19,dunsinea, castleknock 15 Dublin See on map
