BIS (Bureau of Indian standards )

Detail about BIS

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BUREAU OF INDIAN STANDARDS
INTRODUCTION -
The Act was originally enacted in 1986 and the BIS came into existence in December 1986. A new
act (to replace the BIS Act of 1986) was introduced in the Lok Sabha in 2015, which was
subsequently passed by both houses of the Parliament. The new act came into force in 2017.
Bureau of Indian Standards (here in after referred to as ‘BIS’) is a statutory body established under
the Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 2016 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Act’). BIS prescribes the
standards for covering goods and systems under the standardization regime. Under the Act, BIS has
been identified as the ‘National Standards Body of India’ and is regulated under the Ministry of
Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, and Government of India

The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) is the National Standards Body of India under Department
of Consumer affairs, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Government
of India. It is established by the Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 2016 which came into effect on 12
October 2017. The Minister in charge of the Ministry or Department having administrative control
of the BIS is the ex-officio President of the BIS. BIS has 500 plus scientific officers working as
Certification Officers, Member secretaries of technical committees and lab OIC's.
The organization was formerly the Indian Standards Institution (ISI), set up under the Resolution
of the Department of Industries and Supplies dated 3 September 1946. The ISI was registered under
the Societies Registration Act, 1860.
A new Bureau of Indian standards (BIS) Act 2016 which was notified on 22 March 2016, has
been brought into force with effect from 12 October 2017. The Act establishes the Bureau of Indian
Standards (BIS) as the National Standards Body of India.
As a National Standards Body, it has 25 members drawn from Central or State Governments,
industry, scientific and research institutions, and consumer organisations. Its headquarters are
in New Delhi, with regional offices in Eastern Region at Kolkata, southern Region at Chennai,
Western Region at Mumbai, Northern Region at Chandigarh and Central Region at Delhi and 20
branch offices. It also works as WTO-TBT enquiry point for India.

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BIS through its core activities of standardization and conformity assessment, has been benefiting
the national economy by providing safe, reliable and quality goods; minimizing health hazards to
consumers; protecting the environment, promoting exports and imports substitute; controlling over
proliferation of varieties etc. The standards and certification scheme of BIS apart from benefitting
the consumers and industry also support various public policies especially in areas of product safety,
consumer protection, food safety, environment protection, building and construction, etc.
In recent years, BIS has worked towards specifically addressing various national priorities and other
government initiatives like Swacch Bharat Abhiyan, Digital India, Make in India and ease of doing
business through its activities of standardization and certification. In standards development, BIS
continues to address issues of technology changes and advancements, climate change, environment
and energy conservation, conditions of health and safety and facilitation of trade. In the area of
conformity assessment BIS is working towards making the processes simpler and faster.
Vision
The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), the National Standards Body of India, resolves to be the
leader in all matters concerning Standardization, Certification and Quality. In order to attain this,
the Bureau would strive
To provide efficient timely service. To satisfy the customers needs for quality of goods and services.
To work and act in such a way that each task performed as individuals or as a corporate entity, leads
to excellence and enhances the credibility and image of the Organization.
Mission
We dedicate ourselves to achieve excellence for effective and timely implementation of the
objectives laid down in the Bureau of Indian Standards Act, and providing prompt and efficient
services to all stakeholders.
Policy
BIS is determined to carry out its activities in close cooperation with all concerned organizations
and by adopting appropriate management systems, motivating and ensuring active participation of
all the employees.
Objectives
• Harmonious development of standardization, marking and quality certification
• To provide new thrust to standardization and quality control
• To evolve a national strategy for according recognition to standards and integrating them
with growth and development of production and exports
Features of BIS
The Act establishes a Bureau for the purpose of standardization, marking and certification of articles
and processes.

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• The Act allows the union government to make it compulsory for certain notified goods,
processes, articles, etc. to carry the standard mark in the public interest, safety of the
environment, national security or to prevent unfair trade practices.
• The BIS Act also allows many types of simplified conformity assessment schemes and this
includes self-declaration of conformity against a standard which will offer simplified
options to manufacturers to adhere to the standards and get a certificate of conformity.
• According to the Act, the central government has the power to appoint any agency or
authority (apart from the BIS) to verify the conformity of product & services and issue the
conformity certificates.
• Additionally, there is a provision in the Act for the recall or repair for products that bear
the Standard Mark but do not conform to the required Indian standard.
• The Act has identified new areas for standardization. These include:
• Medical devices
• Alternate fuels
• Smart cities
• E-mobility
• New and renewable energy
• Digital technologies (Artificial Intelligence, Industry 4.0, Blockchain, etc.)
• The BIS (Hallmarking) Regulations, 2018 makes the hallmarking of precious metals jewelry
and artefacts such as gold and silver mandatory.
• The penalty for improper use of the Indian standard mark will be a fine of up to Rs. 5 lakh.
• The Act also prescribes penalties for the following points:
• The improper use of the standard mark by testing and marking centres
• Manufacturing or selling goods & articles that do not carry a standard mark
and have been mandated to do so, etc.

STATUTORY FRAMEWORK
The Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 2016, has been implemented since 12 October 2017. The
highlights of the new BIS Act are:
• Positions BIS as the National Standards Body.
• Allows multiple conformity assessment schemes in line with global practices.
• Enables the Government to authorize any agency apart from BIS to certify and enforce
conformity to a standard.
• Enables the Government to include products under mandatory certification on grounds of
health, safety, environment, national security and prevention of deceptive practices.
• Enables the Government to bring Hallmarking of precious metal articles under mandatory
certification.
• Provides consumer protection measures like recall of non-conforming standard marked
products, compensation to the consumer and more stringent penal provisions.

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ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF BIS

ORGANIZATIONAL N ET WORK

BIS has its Headquarters at New Delhi. It has 5 Regional Offices (ROs) located at Kolkata (Eastern),
Chennai (Southern), Mumbai (Western), Chandigarh (Northern) and Delhi (Central). Under the
Regional Offices are the Branch Offices (BOs). There are 33 BOs located at 28 different locations
namely Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore,
Dehradun, Delhi, Durgapur, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jammu,
Jamshedpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Parwanoo, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Rajkot
and Vishakhapatnam. The BOs serve as an effective link between State Governments, industries,
technical institutions, consumer organizations, etc., of the region.
ACTIVITIES

The activities of BIS can be broadly grouped under the following heads:

1. Standards formulation
2. International activities
3. Product Certification

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4. Hallmarking
5. Laboratory services
6. Training services - National Institute of Training for Standardisation
7. Consumer Affairs and Publicity
STANDARDS FORMU LATION

BIS formulates Indian Standards in line with the national priorities for various sectors that have been
grouped under 14 Departments like Chemicals, Food and Agriculture, Civil, Electro-technical,
Electronics & Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Management & Systems,
Metallurgical Engineering, Petroleum Coal & Related Products, Medical Equipment and Hospital
Planning, Textile, Transport Engineering, Production & General Engineering and Water Resources.
Corresponding to these Departments fourteen Division Councils exist. Each Division Council has a
number of Sectional committees working under it. The standards cover important segments of
economy and help the industry in upgrading the quality of their goods and services.
INTERNATIONAL ACTI VITIES

International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
ISO is an independent, non-governmental membership organization and the world’s largest
developer of voluntary International Standards. BIS is a founder member of ISO and is actively
involved in development of International Standards by acting as Participating (P) member or
Observer (O) member on various Technical Committees, Sub-Committees, Working Groups, etc.

International Electro-technical Commission (IEC)
IEC was founded in 1906 and is the world’s leading organization for the preparation and publication
of International Standards for all electrical, electronic and related technologies. India is represented
in IEC through BIS.

Regional and Bilateral Cooperation
BIS is actively involved in the Regional and Bi-lateral Co-operation Programmes pertaining to
standardization, testing, certification, training etc. So far, BIS has signed several MoUs with national
standards bodies of various countries. BIS also plays an active role in formulation and
implementation of regional standards and on conformity assessment scheme for the SAARC
countries under the South Asian Regional Standards Organization (SARSO).

World Trade Organisation

Technical Barriers to Trade (WTO-TBT) Matters - BIS is the National Enquiry Point for WTO
-TBT.

PRODUCT CERTIFICATION

BIS operates a Product Certification scheme for ensuring compliance to Indian Standards. Presence
of BIS standard mark (popularly known as ISI mark) on a product indicates conformity to the
relevant Indian Standard. Before granting licence to any manufacturer, BIS ascertains the
availability of required infrastructure and capability of the manufacturer to produce and test the
product conforming to the relevant Indian Standard on a continuous basis.

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The BIS certification scheme is voluntary in nature. However for a number of products, compliance
to Indian Standards made mandatory by the Central Government under various statutes in public
interest.
Foreign Manufactures Certification Scheme (FMCS)

BIS has been operating a separate scheme for foreign manufacturers in order to certify goods
manufactured outside India. Under this scheme, foreign manufacturers can seek certification from
BIS for marking their product(s) with BIS Standard Mark after ensuring conformity of the products
to relevant Indian Standard(s).
Registration Scheme for Self-Declaration of conformity

Registration Scheme operated by BIS is a simplified process of conformity assessment. In this this
scheme a manufacturer himself makes a declaration that his product conforms to the Indian
Standard.
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) has notified "Electronics and
Information Technology Goods (Requirements for Compulsory Registration) Order, 2012" on 3 Oct
2012 mandating Compulsory Registration from BIS for Electronics and Information Technology
(IT) products. BIS had also notified a separate ‘Standard Mark’ for the Registration Scheme.
HALLMARKING

Hallmarking of Jewellery

Hallmarking of Gold Jewellery was started by BIS in
April 2000 to provide third party assurance to consumers
on the purity of gold jewellery or its fineness. The scheme
for Hallmarking of Silver Jewellery / artefacts was
launched in October 2005. Under the hallmarking scheme,
the jewellers are granted certificate of registration to sell
hallmarked jewellery and Assaying & Hallmarking
(A&H) centres are recognized to assay the purity of the
jewellery submitted by the registered jeweller along with
declaration of purity and apply hallmark on such jewellery
which is found conforming to relevant Indian Standard
including declared fineness.
LABORATORY

To cater to the needs of testing for certification activity, BIS has established eight laboratories in the
country namely Central Laboratory (CL), Sahibabad; Western Regional Office Laboratory
(WROL), Mumbai; Northern Regional Office Laboratory (NROL), Mohali; Eastern Regional
Office Laboratory (EROL), Kolkata; Southern Regional Office Laboratory (SROL), Chennai;
Bangalore Branch Office Laboratory (BNBOL), Bangalore; Patna Branch Office Laboratory
(PBOL), Patna; Guwahati Branch Office Laboratory (GBOL), Guwahati. In addition, BIS has also
recognized NABL accredited laboratories and government laboratories to discharge the work related
to testing of products for conformity assessment. In addition, BIS also has a Gold Referral Assaying
Laboratory at Chennai for testing of samples.

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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TRAINING FOR STANDARDIZATION (NITS)

BIS imparts training through NITS to the technical and management personnel from industry,
consumer organizations, public sector undertakings, govt. bodies and developing countries. The
institute also conducs International Training Programmes (ITP) for developing countries under
different cooperation schemes of Government of India
CONSUMER AFFAIRS AND PUBLICITY
BIS endeavors to create awareness and promote quality amongst all its consumers through various
awareness programmes:
1. Consumer Awareness Programmes: For promoting the concept of standardization, certification
and quality consciousness among consumers, awareness programmes are organized on a regular
basis through various Regional offices and Branch offices of BIS, sometimes in association with
Consumer Organizations.
2. Industry Awareness Programmes: To propagate the concept of standardization, product
certification, management systems certification and other BIS activities amongst Industries,
Industry Awareness Programmes are conducted by BIS.
3. Educational Utilization of Standards Programmes: BIS organizes Educational Utilization of
Standards Programmes (EUS) for students and faculties of schools, colleges etc., to inculcate the
young minds with the concepts and benefits of standardization.
4. World Standards Day: BIS celebrates the World Standards Day on 14th Oct to pay tribute to the
collaborative efforts of thousands of experts worldwide, which develop voluntary technical
agreements that are published as International or National Standards.
5. Public Grievances: Consumer complaints relating to BIS certified products are reviewed and
monitored regularly for redressal.
6. Public Relations: The publicity activity of BIS is aimed at creating awareness for various BIS
activities among its target audience including the Industry and common Consumer, significantly
relating to Standardization, Certification of goods & services and Hallmarking of Gold Jewelry.

REGULATORY FRAMEWORK
National Building Code of India, 2005
It is a comprehensive building code for regulating the building construction activities across the
country which was first published in 1970. Approach to Sustainability" was put into circulation a
preliminary draft amendment and BIS accepted the feedback from people till 15 March 2013.
Indian Standards Bill, 2015
The Bill was passed on 8 March 2016 by the Rajya Sabha. The new Bill will repeal the existing
Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 1986. The main objectives of the legislation are:
• To establish the Bureau of Indian standards (BIS) as the National Standards Body of India.
• The Bureau to perform its functions through a governing council, which will consist of President
and other members.
• To include goods, services and systems, besides articles and processes under the standardization
regime.
• To enable the government to bring under the mandatory certification regime for such articles,
processes or service which it considers necessary from the point of view of health, safety,
environment, prevention of deceptive practices, consumer security etc. This will help consumers
receive ISI certified products and will also help in prevention of import of sub-standard products.

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• To allow multiple types of simplified conformity assessment schemes including self-declaration
of conformity (SDOC) against any standard which will give multiple simplified options to
manufacturers to adhere to standards and get a certificate of conformity, thus improving the 'ease
of doing business'.
• To enable the Government to implement mandatory hallmarking of precious metals articles.
• To strengthen penal provisions for better effective compliance and enable compounding of
offences for violations.
• To provide recall, including product liability of products bearing the Standard Mark, but not
conforming to relevant Indian Standards.
• Repeal of the BIS Act of 1986.
• The Bureau of Indian Standards Act 2016 received the assent of the President on 21 March 2016.
ORGANISATION
National Institute of Training for Standardization (NITS)
It is a training institute of BIS which is set up in 1995. It is functioning from Noida, Uttar Pradesh,
India.
The primary activities of NITS are:
• In-House and Open Training Programme for Industry
• International Training Programme for Developing Countries
• Training Programme to its employees.
Cells
Laboratories
To support the activities of product certification, BIS has a chain of 8 laboratories. These
laboratories have established testing facilities for products of chemical, food, electrical and
mechanical disciplines. Approximately, 25000 samples are being tested in the BIS laboratories
every year. In certain cases where it is economically not feasible to develop test facilities in BIS
laboratories and also for other reasons like overloading of samples, equipment being out of order,
the services of outside approved laboratories are also being availed. Except for the two labs, all the
other labs are NABL (National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories)
accredited. It operates a laboratory recognition scheme also.
Small Scale Industry Facilitation Cell
SSI Facilitation Cell became operational since 26 May 1997. The aim of the Cell is to assist the
small scale entrepreneurs who are backbone of the Indian industry. It has an incentive scheme to
promote such units to get certified with ISI Mark.
Grievance Cell
If any customer reports about the degraded quality of any certified product at Grievance Cell, BIS
HQs, BIS gives redressal to the customer.

Standard formulation and promotion-
One of the major functions of the Bureau is the formulation, recognition and promotion of the Indian
Standards. As on 1 January 2019, over 20,000 Standards have been formulated by BIS, are in force.
These cover important segments of economy, which help the industry in upgrading the quality of
their products and services.

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BIS has identified 15 sectors which are important to Indian Industry. For formulation of Indian
Standard, it has separate Division Council to oversee and supervise the work. The Standards are
regularly reviewed and formulated in line with the technological development to maintain harmony
with the International Standards.
Product Certification
Indian manufacturers
Product Certifications are to be obtained voluntarily. For, some of the products like Milk powder,
Drinking Water, LPG Cylinders, etc., certification is mandatory. Because these products are
concerned with health and safety.
Foreign manufacturers
Foreign manufacturers of products who intend to export to India also may obtain a BIS product
certification license. For some products various Indian government ministries/departments/agencies
makes its compulsory to have BIS certification. Towards this, BIS launched its Product Certification
Scheme for overseas manufacturers in the year 2000, which is called Foreign Manufacturers
Certification Scheme. Under the provisions of this scheme, foreign manufacturers can seek
certification from BIS for marking their product(s) with BIS Standard Mark. The foreign
manufacturer needs to appoint an Authorized Indian Representative who will be an Indian Resident
to act as an agent between BIS and the manufacturer. Depending on the product, the manufacturer
has to imprint one of two possible marks on the product label. The Standard Mark or the ISI Mark.
The Standard Mark is compulsory for certain types of electronics and IT goods, whereas the ISI
mark is mandatory for product categories such as cement, household electrical products, food
products, steel materials, etc. The ISI mark is also used for several voluntary BIS certification
product categories.
Indian importers
Indian importers who intend to get Certification Mark may apply for the license. However, the
assessment visit is paid to the original product manufacturer.
Management System Certification
• Quality Management System Certification Scheme IS/ISO 9001
• Environmental Management System Certification Scheme IS/ISO 14001
• Occupational Health and Safety Management System Certification Scheme IS 18001
• Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Scheme IS 15000
• Food Safety Management System Certification IS/ISO 22000
• Service Quality Management System Certification Scheme IS 15700
• Energy Management System Certification Scheme IS/ISO 50001
• Medical Devices Management System Certification Scheme IS/ISO 13485
• Social Accountability Management System Certification Scheme IS 16001
• Integrated Management System Certification Scheme
• Road Traffic Safety Management System Certification Scheme IS/ISO 39001
• Ready Mixed Concrete Certification Scheme
• Integrated Milk Certification Scheme
• Adventure Tourism Safety Management System Certification Scheme IS/ISO 21101
• Food Safety Auditing as per Food Safety and Standards (Food Safety Audit) Regulations, 2018

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BIS STANDARDS FOR MILK AND MILK PR ODUCTS

The Indian Government has underpinned extensive guidelines for producer and exporter for milk
& milk products which have been made a legal compulsion vide the Milk and Milk Product Order
1992. As per this order, any individual/milk plant processing more than 100000 L/day or 500MT
of milk powder annually needs to obtain consent from the registering authority working under the
aegis of central authority. The primary goal of the order is to administer & escalate the supply of
liquid milk of desired quality in the interest of the masses & also for governing the supply chain of
milk and milk product. In this blog, we will cast some light on the BIS standards for Milk and
Milk Products.
In India, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has setup the nodal ministry for administering
the food standards in India. Prevention of Food Adulteration Act 1954 (PFA) entails the guidelines
regarding the food quality and safety at the national level
MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS –
For legal standards of milk and milk products
1. Purity
2. Additives
3. Composition
4. Bacteriological Quality (Hygienic Quality)
5. Efficiency Processing
6. Packaging and Labelling Requirement
Type of Cream Type of Count Level in CFU/ml or g Grade
Raw Cream
Standard
Plate count / ml or g
< 4 lakhs Very good
4-20 lakhs
Standard
Plate count / ml or g
Good null
20-100 lakhs
Standard
Plate count / ml or g
Fair null
>100 lakhs
Standard
Plate count / ml or g
Poor null
Coliform Count / ml or g Not more than 100 Satisfactory null
Pasteurized cream Standard plate count / ml or g Not more than 60,000 Satisfactory
Coliform count / ml or g Not more than 10 Satisfactory null

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BUTTER
Milk Fat = Minimum of 80% by the weight
Common Salt = Minimum of 3% by Weight
Curd = Minimum of 1.5% by Weight
Diacetyl Content = 4 Parts Per Million (ppm)
Moisture – Not More Than 16%
Yeast & Mold count/ml Quantity
< 20 Good
21-50 Fair
51-100 Poor
> 100 Very Poor
SPC (Standard Plate Count*), No standard has been introduced
Standard Plate Count* refers the measure of the total number of aerobic bacteria present in
the milk products.
Coliform count butter has been maxed at 10/ ml to ensure optimal quality.
GHEE –
SL.NO. Tests All-India Winter Summer
1. Baudouin Negative Negative null
2 Phytosterol acetate Negative Negative null
3.
B.R. reading
(40 ºC )
40.0-43.0 41.5-44.0 42.5 – 45.0
4. R.M. Value
Not less than
28.0
Not less than
23.0
Not less than
21.0
5. P Value 1.0-2.0 0.5-1.2 0.5-1.0
6. Moisture (%)
Not more than
0.3
Not more than
0.3
Not more than
0.3
7. Free fatty acid (% oleic)

a.
Special grade AGMARK Red
label
Not more than
1.4
Not more than
1.4
Not more than
1.4
b.
General Grade AGMARK
GREEN LABEL
Not more than
2.5
Not more than
2.5
Not more than
2.5

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ICE CREAM –
Characteristics Requirements
Weight (g/Litre) (min) 525
Total solids (% wt) (min) 36
Milk fat (%wt) (min) 10
Acidity (% lactic acid) (max) 0.25
Stabiliser / emulsifier (%wt) (max) 0.5
Sucrose (%wt) (max) 15
Microbiological Standards of ICE CREAM –
Test Limit
Standard plate count (per g) not more than 2,50,000
Coliform count (per g) not more than 90
Phosphatase negative

MILK POWDER -
1. Milk description
The material of the milk powder must be white or white with a hinge of a greenish tinge or a light
cream color.
Must be lump-free, excluding those which break seamlessly under little pressure.
Must be free from extraneous and scorched particles.
2. Flour and taste of milk powder
Must have a pleasant and clean flavor of the product or reconstituted milk.
Must be free from the off-flavor, though, could have a slightly cooked flavor, not burnt).
As per recommendation, the flavor must depend on sensory characteristics.
3. Hygienic conditions
A milk powder must be manufactured and packed as prescribed by the IS 2491.
4. Milk powder

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Milk powder must be produced by spraying the dried standardized milk which must be either cow
or buffalo milk or could be a mixture.
Standardized milk does not contain additives.
The processing and drying of milk must be done to reduce the loss of nutritive value, especially
protein quality.
To improve the product’s dispersibility, maximum lecithin could increase up to 0.5 percent by
might be added, including mentioning its quantity on the label as mentioned in the PFA rules.
The mass of the finished product might include added calcium chloride, citric acid, sodium citrate,
sodium salts of orthophosphoric acid, and polyphosphoric acid (as linear phosphate), not increased
by 0.3 percent by mass. Moreover, these additions need to be mentioned on the labels.
By the mass of Milk, the powder might contain butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) by a maximum of
0.01.

Whole Milk Powder Skimmed Milk Powder
Flavour and odour Good Good
Moisture (%wt.) (max) 4.0 5.0
Total milk solids (%wt.) 96.0 95.0
Solubility Solubility Solubility
a. Solubility index (max) ml
15.0
(if roller dried)
15.0
( if roller dried)
2.0
(if spray dried)
2.0
(if spray dried)
null
b. Solubility (%wt.) (min) 85.0 ml (if roller dried) 85.0 ml (if roller dried)
98.5 ml (if spray dried) 98.5 ml (if spray dried) null
Total ash (on dry basis) % wt (max) 7.3 9.3
Fat (% wt) Not less than 26 Not more than 1.5
Titratable acidity (% lactic) 1.2 1.5
Microbiological Standards for Milk Powder (BIS Standards)-

Types
WMP & Extra Grade
SMP
Standard Grade SMP
Total bacterial count, max, cfu/g 40,000 50,000
Coliform count Absent in 0.1 g Absent in 0.1 g
Salmonella Absent in 25 g Not specified
Staph. aureus (coagulase
positive)
Absent in 0.1 g Not specified
Shigella Absent in 25 g Not specified

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CHEESE -

Characteristics
Natural Cheese
(hard variety)
Processed
cheese
Processes
cheese spread
Cheese
Powder
1. Moisture % by mass.
maximum
43 47 60 5
2. Milk fat (on dry basis) %
by mass. minimum
42 40 40 40
3.Salt (added NaCl) % by
mass maximum
3 3 3 5.5
4. Coliform count, per gram
maximum
- - - 10
5. Stabilizer / 0.1% 4% null null
6. Sorbic acid / Nisin 0.1% 0.1% null null
Microbiological Standards of Cheese -
S.
No.
Product
Yeast and Mold
Count
Coliform
Aerobic spore
count
Anaerobic spore
count
1 Processed cheese/gm 60 Nil 200 100
2
Processed cheese
spread/gm
60 Nil 200 100

CONCENTRATED MILK –

Characteristics Full Cream Skim Milk
Total milk solids (% by wt., minimum) 31.0 26
Fat (% by wt.) min 9.0 max 0.5
Sucrose (% by wt., minimum) 40 40
Acidity (% lactic acid, maximum) 0.35 0.35
Bacterial count (cfu/g, maximum) 500 500
Test for Coliforms Negative Negative
Yeast and Mold count (cfu/g, maximum) 10 10


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