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UPDATE DRAFT G.S (150/93), G.S (1023/2000) EXPIRATION PERIODS OF FOOD PRODUCTS FOOD2/C.driver EXPIRATOIN PERIODS OF FOOD PRODUCTS FOOD2/C.driver GS…../2005 GULF STANDARD INTRODUCTION This Gulf Standard annuls and replaces any G1023/2000 “ Expiration periods of food products – part 2” and GS. 150/1993 “Expiration periods of food products – part 1” . FOOD2/C.driver GS…../2005 GULF STANDARD EXPIRATION PERIODS OF FOOD PRODUCTS 1. SCOPE AND FIELD APPLICATION This standard is concerned with expiration periods for food products 2. COMPLEMENTARY REFERENCES 2.1 2.2 2.3 G.S 9 “Labelling of Prepackaged Foods”. G.S food products standards mentioned in this standard GS Food Packaging Standards 3. DEFINITIONS 3.1 Expiration period: A period during which the product retains its specific properties and remains permissible, acceptable and fit for human consumption under the set packaging, transportation and storage conditions. Foodstuff: Any substance whether processed, semi-processed or unprocessed, which is intended for direct human consumption or used in manufacturing, preparing or treating of food stuff. It does not include perfumes, tobacco and tobacco products or any substances used only as drugs. Expiration date: The date designating the end of the expiration period under the set packaging, transportation and storage conditions. Production date: The date on which the food becomes an end product suitable for packaging. 3.2 3.3 3.4 4. REQUIREMENTS 4.1 Without prejudice to what is stated in GS 9 “Labelling of Prepackaged Foods” and to the Gulf Standards for each food products, the production and expiration dates shall be declared on the label of the package/or the package in an uncoded manner as follows : - (Day-Month-Year) for food products having an expiration period less than 3 months. (Month – Year) for food products having an expiration period exceeding 3 months. The use of any of the following statements for expressing the expiration date is permissible, it is mandatory to mention the production date. - Expiration date; Use by:……………(date); Fit for :……………from the date of production; Use before :………(date); Sell by ……………(date), (for food products having an expiration period exceeding 3 months) 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.4.1 In case of writing production and expiration dates in month and year only, the expiration period shall be calculated up to the end of the registered expiration month. Dates shall be engraved or in relief, printed or stamped by irremovable ink directly on all packages or on their original label by the producer only. Adding stickers for production and expiration dates is not permissible. There shall be not more than one date of production or of expiration on the same package. Both dates shall not be subjected to deletion, change or deceit. This Gulf Standard include Mandatory Expiration periods and Voluntary Expiration periods as follows : Mandatory Expiration periods of food products. 4.4.1.1 Chilled food products: To be stored at a temperature from 0 ºC- 5º C Product Type of Packaging Expiration Period Meat and Meat Products Chilled meat packed Suitable containers 90 days from under carbon dioxide eliminating slaughtering date atmosphere gases exchange Edible organs and Suitable containers 7 days viscera such as kidneys, heart, brain, tongue, and poultry giblets…etc Packed under 51 days from vacuum in suitable slaughtering date plastic containers Packed under carbon 90 days from dioxide atmosphere slaughtering date in suitable containers Notes Temperature(-05+1) ºC Except brain and testis. Expiration period which shall not exceed 5 days from slaughtering date. Temperature (-0.5 +1) ºC Temperature (-0.5+1) ºC Product Poultry meat (chicken - duck-goose-turkey - rabbits-pigeons - quailsostrich….etc). Type of Packaging Suitable plastic containers Beef, buffalo and camels meat Mutton and goat meat Suitable containers Meat packed under vacuum Pasteurized cream Expiration Period 7 days from slaughtering Notes 21 days from slaughtering date Suitable containers 14 days from slaughtering date Plastic containers 10 weeks from slaughtering date Milk and Milk Products Labnah heat treated after fermentation Tightly sealed suitable plastic or carton containers Tightly sealed plastic containers, 21 days Pasteurized milk and flavoured pasteurized milk Yoghurt and flavoured yoghurt Heat treated yoghurt Tightly sealed suitable containers, plastic or paper Suitable tightly sealed containers Suitable containers 6 Weeks Labnah Suitable containers 15 days Laban and flavoured laban. Butter Suitable tightly sealed containers Suitable containers 7 days 4 months In case of using aluminium cover it shall be isolated as to not contact the product 5 days 10 days 2 months Other Different Products Product Pasteurized Fruit juices , drinks and nectars Margarine Type of Packaging Plastic or carton containers Packed in plastic foils Expiration Period 30 days 3 months Notes 4.4.1.2 Baby foods products storage in well-ventilated stores (Temperature shall not exceed 25º C):- Product Sterilized liquid milk prepared for infants Baby foods powder based on milk Strained baby foods Baby fruits juices Baby foods in powder or granules form prepared from cereals, legumes, fruits or vegetables etc…. Type of Packaging Tightly sealed glass or plastic containers Tightly sealed metallic containers or packed under vacuum and sterilized Glass containers tightly sealed and sterilized Glass containers tightly sealed and sterilized Carton containers lined with aluminium foils Metallic containers packed under vacuum or in presence of an inert gas. Expiration Period 9 months Notes 18 months 12 months 12 months 12 months 18 months 4.4.1.3 Food products which need specific temperature: Product Fresh eggs (Table eggs) Type of Packaging Suitable containers Expiration Period 1 month 3 months Notes At temperature from 11ºC to 15ºC At temperature from 4 ºC to 10º C 4.4.2 Voluntary Expiration periods of food products 4.4.2.1 Frozen Food Products : To be stored at a temperature not exceeding – 18 ºC Product Type of Packaging Expiration Period Notes Meat and Meat Products Beef, buffalo, mutton, Suitable containers 12 months from goat and camel meat slaughtering date Minced meat, burger Plastic containers 9 months meat, sausages, liver Chickens, rabbits, Plastic containers 12 months from turkey, duck, goose and slaughtering date ostrich. Edible organs and offals: • kidneys, heart tongue, tripe, poultry Suitable 6 months giblets..etc Containers • brain, testis Liver 4 months Pigeons and quails Kabbah and Kofftah Eggs Eggs whites and egg yolks Gutted and ungutted smoked fish Processed fish products such as fish fingers and fish fillets …….etc. Lean fish* Suitable Containers Suitable Containers Suitable containers Suitable containers 9 months From slaughtering date 9 months 9 months 9 months Fish and Shell-Fish Products Suitable plastic 9 months containers Suitable containers 12 months Plastic or carton containers 12 months Fatty Fish* Plastic or carton-board containers 6 months Shrimp and shell fish Plastic or carton containers 8 months Fish species with oil content in edible part less than 5% Fish species with oil contend in edible part of 5% or more. FOOD2/C.driver Product Ice cream, milk ices and water ices Frozen yoghurt Butter Margarine Type of Packaging Expiration Period Milk and Milk Products Suitable containers 12 months Fruits Suitable containers 12 months Suitable containers 12 months In foil plastic or carton 12 months Fruit, Vegetable and Their Products Suitable containers 12 months Fruit juices Suitable containers 18 months Fried potato chips Packed in plastic bags 18 months Leafy vegetables Suitable containers 12 months Other vegetable Suitable containers 18 months Concentrated fruit juices Suitable containers 24 months Fungi such as mushroom Suitable containers 12 months Fruit muffins such as apple muffins Muffins with cream Suitable containers 18 months Suitable containers 18 months Notes Cereals, Pulses and Nuts and Their Products Suitable containers 12 months Dough Cake Suitable containers 12 months Fruit pies such as apple pies Cream pies Suitable containers 18 months Suitable containers 6 months 4.4.2.2 Chilled food products : To be stored at a temperature from 0 ºC – 5 ºC Product Cured or cooked processed meat packed in natural or synthetic wraps such as luncheon, salami, mortadella, frankfurters…etc Dry salted fish Type of Packaging Expiration Period Meat and Meat Products Suitable containers 6 months Plastic, carton or aluminium foil containers 12 months Notes Product Processed cheese Hard cheese Type of Packaging Expiration Period Milk and Milk Products Other non-metallic 18 months containers Suitable containers 12 months Notes 4.4.2.3 Food products to be stored at suitable temperature in well-ventilated stores (Not exceed 25º C). Product Type of Packaging Expiration Period Notes Meat and Meat Products Canned meat Sterilized metallic 24 months containers Spicy salted meat such Without wrapping 6 Months If basterma is sliced, it as basterma, salami such as basterma, and shall be packed in in suitable containers suitable containers and for other products kept refrigerated at 0 ºC to 5 ºC. Canned meat with Hermetically-sealed 18 months vegetable metal cans Whole egg powder, egg Suitable tightly-sealed 12 months white powder and egg moisture proof yolk powder containers Canned fish Sterilized metallic 24 months containers Canned shellfish Hermetically sealed 18 months metal cans Dried fish and shellfish Suitable plastic 12 months containers Salted fish in brine Suitable containers 12 months solution Milk and Milk Products Metallic containers 18 months Skimmed dried milk packed under inert gas or under vacuum Moisture-tight 12 months containers Metallic containers 18 months packed under inert gas Full cream dried milk or under vacuum Moisture-tight sealed 12 months plastic or paper containers Sterilized milk Non-metallic 6 months containers Evaporated milk Metallic containers 12 months Product Sweetened condensed milk Flavoured sterilized milk Whipping cream powder Cheeses packed in brine solution such as Aldumiaty, Alakkawy, Alnabolsy…etc Canned butter Natural Ghee Processed cheese Ice cream powder Cream UHT Milk Canned vegetables and canned fruits Dried fruit juices Jam, jellies and Marmalades Fried potato chips and corn puffs Type of Packaging Expiration Period Metallic containers 12 months Tightly sealed carton 6 months containers lined with aluminium foil Metallic containers 12 months Other containers 6 months Suitable tightly-sealed 18 months moisture proof containers Suitable tightly 12 months metallic or plastic sealed moisture proof containers Hermetically sealed 15 months metal cans Tightly-sealed suitable 12 months containers Metallic containers 18 months Suitable tightly sealed, 18 months moisture proof containers Hermetically sealed 18 months metal cans Tightly sealed carton 6 months containers limed with alumunium foil Tightly sealed carton, 4 months coated containers lined with aluminium foil Fruits, Vegetables and Their Products Metallic containers 18 months Glass containers 24 months suitable containers 18 months Tightly sealed plastic 12 months or aluminium foil containers or Plastic bags 6 months Aluminium foils bags 9 months or nitrogen atmosphere in carton lined with tin foils containers or in metallic containers Notes Packed under aseptic conditions It is not permissible to package in PVC containers Packed under aseptic conditions Product Dried fruits such as figs, raisins, prunes, apricots, etc Hot sauces all types Type of Packaging carton or plastic containers Glass containers Tightly sealed glass containers Metallic containers Pickles lined with plastic Plastic containers or plastic bags in well sealed tinplate cans Spiced tomato sauce Metallic containers Glass containers Tomato sauce (tomato metallic containers past) Glass containers Carton containers limned with aluminum foil Tomato puree( pulp) and metallic containers ketchup Glass containers Carton containers limned with aluminum foil Hot sauce (chilli sauce) Suitable containers Table olive preserved in Tightly-sealed glass brine solution or by containers sterilization and heat Tightly-sealed metal treated or plastic containers Mustard salad Tightly-sealed metal, glass or plastic containers Fungi such as mushroom Hermetically sealed metal containers Tightly sealed glass containers Dried apricot paste Wrapped in plastic or (Kamaruldin) cellophane Fried fruit chips such as Metal cans or carton apples, pears, peach with containers linned with different flavours aluminium foil, packed under vacuum or in the presence of an inert gas such as nitrogen Plastic bags Expiration Period 12 months Notes 24 months 18 months 12 months 12 months 12 months 18 months 12 months 18 months 12 months 12 months 18 months 12 months 24 months 18 months 12 months 12 months 18 months 24 months 12 months 9 months 6 months Packed under aseptic conditions Product Canned fruit pulp and canned concentrated fruit and vegetable juices Vegetable oil and hydrogenated vegetable oils and their derivatives such as palm olean and styrene maregarine Type of Packaging Tightly sealed metal or plastic containers Expiration Period 15 months Vegetable fats, oil and their products Plastic containers 12 months metallic containers Notes The statement “For manufacturing purposes, not for direct consumption” shall be declared on the label It is not permissible to package PVC containers 12 months Cereals, Pulses and Nuts and Their Products Product Ground roasted coffee Instant coffee Sweetened or salted biscuits Stuffed or covered biscuits Oat flakes Cake mixes Canned pulses such as chick pea, chick pea with tehena and foul medames….etc. Type of Packing Packed in metallic or aluminum foils containers under vacuum or in the presence of an inert gas Metallic or glass containers Aluminium foils or special paper containers Carton containers or wrapped in special paper or cellophane or aluminium foils Metallic cans Metallic containers Carton, plastic, cellophane or aluminium foil containers Tightly-sealed metal cans Other containers Paper containers or aluminium foils Tightly-sealed glass containers Hermetically sealed metal containers Expiration Period 18 months 24 months 12 months 9 months 12 months 12 months 9 months 24 months 12 months 18 months 24 months 18 months Notes Product Shelled roasted nuts, salted or sweetened Type of Packing Metal cans or aluminium foil bags, packed under vacuum or in nitrogen atmosphere Metal cans or aluminium foil bags Plastic bags Expiration Period 18 months Shelled roasted nuts coated with a layer of hard candy Metal cans or aluminium foil bags Plastic bags 18 months Flour Cloth bags 6 months Packed in paper or plastic bags 12 months Suitable moisture proof containers 12 months Pulses powder, such as chick pea powder dried ground flafell (Taamia) Peanut butter Notes 12 months 6 months 12 months Tightly-sealed glass or 12 months plastic containers Starch , all types Carton or plastic 24 months containers Breakfast cereals such as Carton containers or 12 months corn, wheat, rice flakes, aluminium foils etc Ground roasted coffee Packed in metal or 18 months with cardamom (Arabic aluminium foil coffee) containers under vacuum or in the presence of an inert gas such as nitrogen Macaroni Packed in cardboard 24 months containers or plastic bags Water and Beverages Hermetically sealed metal cans Malt beverage 9 months Tightly sealed glass containers 12 months Natural concentrated Suitable containers 24 months fruit drinks (squash) Artificial, concentrated Suitable containers 18 months fruit drinks Temperature not exceeding 21º C in well-ventilated stores far from moisture and contamination sources Product Artificial drinks with natural or artificial flavours Carbonated beverages Non-carbonated beverages Rose water, flower water Carbonated natural mineral water Dried baker’s yeast Baking powder Custard powder Cream caramel powder Muhallabia powder Dumpling powder Vanilla powder Food colours and flavours powder Chewing gum Coffee mate Nutritive drinks powder such as that containing sugars, milk solids, flour, malt, cacao powder, calcium carbonate, bicarbonate, different flavours….etc Type of Packing Plastic or carton containers linned with aluminium foil Tightly-sealed metal or glass containers Metallic containers Expiration Period 9 months 12 months 9 months Glass containers 12 months Tightly-sealed plastic 6 months bottles Tightly-sealed glass 12 months containers Tightly-sealed glass 24 months containers Other Different Products Suitable vacuum 18 months packed (metal or carton linned with aluminium foil or plastic) containers Suitable moisture 12 months proof, containers Suitable moisture 18 months proof containers Suitable moisture 18 months proof containers Suitable moisture 18 months proof containers Suitable moisture 18 months proof containers Suitable moisture 24 months proof, air-tight containers Suitable moisture 24 months proof containers Suitable moisture 18 months proof containers Suitable moisture 18 months proof containers Tightly – sealed metal 18 months or aluminium foil containers, packed under vacuum Notes Packed under aseptic conditions Product Artificial beverage powder Type of Packing Suitable containers Cocoa powder Jelly powder Plain hard candy Enriched fortified hard candy Soup powders Metallic, glass or aluminium foils containers packed under vacuum or in the presence of an inert gas Other containers such as paper or plastic carton or plastic containers Suitable containers Suitable containers Expiration Period 18 months Notes 24 months 12 months 18 months 24 months 12 months carton, plastic or 18 months aluminium foils containers Soup, partially carton, plastic or 12 months dehydrated in cubic aluminium foils form , etc. containers Brown sugar carton or plastic bags 18 months Halawa Teheniah Metallic or plastic 12 months containers Wrapped in paper or 6 months aluminium foils Tehena Suitable containers 9 months Mayonnaise salad Glass or metallic 12 months containers All types of chocolate Packed in paper, 12 months aluminium foils or plastic containers 4.5 Food products exempted from indication of expiration date: - Edible salt. White sugar. Dry and dried legumes, uncooked and un-canned such as peas, kidney bean, chick peas, broad beans, Egyptian beans, lentils, etc; Dried vegetables; medical plants and herbs, anise, camomile, clove, saffron, fenugreek, etc; Spices and condiments Tea Rice Vinegar Fresh fruits and vegetables including potatoes which have not been peeled, cut or similarly treated ANNEX - Manufacturers producing food products shall specify the actual expiry period for their product, as regards the optional expiry period mentioned in this standard, and else other new food products not mentioned in this standard . - Suitable containers: mean Any kind of the food packages conforming to Gulf standards may be used, provided that they are free from any damage (cut, destroyed|) - Products that are not included among mandatory expiry period, lists may be listed within the optional expiry period, unless they are perishables in which case their expiry period shall be specified by consultation with GS depending on scientific bases for determining the expiry periods and obtaining GS's consent.
