Amendments to the Turkish Food Codex Rules for Plant-Named Oils
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This amendment updates a food standard for oils sold under plant names in Turkey. It mainly replaces references to older food-code regulations with newer ones and makes a few technical changes to product criteria, including some fatty-acid limits for high-oleic sunflower oil, a wording change for peroxide measurement, and a wider sterol range for hazelnut oil.
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Key Changes
- Updates multiple legal references in the oil standard to newer Turkish Food Codex regulations.
- Adjusts technical composition limits for high-oleic sunflower oil and hazelnut oil.
- Renames a quality criterion from "Peroxide Number" to "Peroxide Value".
Obligations
What this law requires
Food business operators placing plant-named oils on the Turkish market must apply the updated Turkish Gıda Kodeksi references now incorporated into the Oils Named by Plant Names Communiqué, including the newer Food Codex, food additive, contaminants, pesticide MRL, microbiological criteria, food-contact materials, and food labeling regulations cited in Articles 1–7.
Producers of high-oleic sunflower oil must ensure the product meets the amended fatty-acid composition limits: palmitoleic acid (C16:1) must not exceed TED-0.2, and stearic acid (C18:0) must be within 1.9–6.2 of total fatty acids.
Operators must use the amended quality-criteria terminology in the relevant table by referring to 'Peroksit Değeri' instead of 'Peroksit Sayısı' when assessing or documenting peroxide-related quality compliance for plant-named oils.
Hazelnut oil producers and specifiers must comply with the broadened sterol composition range for delta-5-avenasterol, which is now 1.0–7.0 of total sterols.