هيئةالتقييس لدول مجلس التعاون لدول الخليج  العربية  
GCC STANDARDIZATION ORGANIZATION (GSO)  
 
 
مشروع مواصفة  نهائي  
Final Draft of Standard FDS 
 
 
 
 
إعداداللجنة الفنية  الخليجية رقم  TC05  
 
Prepared by GSO Technical Committee No. TC05  
 
GSO 05 / DS / 837:2021  
GSO  CAC/RCP 837 :2008 
 
 
 
بعض البقوليات  
Certain Pulses  
 
 
 
 
 
ICS: 67.0 60 
 
 
 هذه الوثيقة مشروع لمواصفة قياسية/ لائحة فنية خليجية 
تم توزيعها لإبداء الملحوظات بشأنها، لذلك فإنها عرضة 
للتغيير والتبديل، ولا يجوز الرجوع إليها كمواصفة 
قياسية/لائحة فنية خليجية إلا بعد اعتمادها من الهيئة.  This document is a draft Gulf 
Standard/Technical Regulation circulated for 
comments. It is, therefore, subject to alteration 
and modification and may not be referred to as 
a Gulf Standar d/Technical Regulation until 
approved by GSO . GSO DS 837/2021   GSO STANDARD  
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 تقديم 
 
هيئة التقييس لدول مجلس التعاون لدول الخليج العربية هيئة إقليمية تضم في عضويتها أجهزة التقييس 
الوطنية في الدول الأعضاء، ومن مهام الهيئة إعداد المواصفات القياسية واللوائح الفنية الخليجية بواسطة 
لجان فنية متخصصة.  
 
قرر مجلس إدارة هيئة التقييس لدول مجلس التعاون لدول الخليج العربية في اجتماعه رقم ) ( الذي عقد 
بتاريخ    / / ه ، الموافق  / /  م  اعتماد تحديث اللائحة الفنية الخليجية رقم ( GSO 837 : 2008  
" بعض البقوليات " باللغة ( العربي ة / الإنجليزية) التي تم دراستها ضمن برنامج عمل "اللجنة الفنية 
الخليجية للمواصفات الغذائية والزراعية رقم TC05" المدرجة في خطة دولة الكويت  
 ويعتبر النص (الانجليزي) هو المرجع الأساسي في حال وجود اختلاف بين النصين.  
 على ان تلغى اللائحة الفنية رقم ( GSO CAC 837 /2008) وتحل محلها GSO DS 837/2021   GSO STANDARD  
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 Certain Pulses  
 
 
1. SCOPE  
 This Gulf standard is concerned with certain pulses limited in item 
(3) either whole, shelled or split which are intended for human 
consumption, and not apply to pulses intended for factory grading 
packing, in dustrial processing, or to those pulses intended for use in 
the feeding of animals/s or for fragmented pulses when sold as such 
or to the other pulses for which separate standard may be elaborated.  
2. Complementary standards:  
 
2.1 GSO   9 "Labeling of Prep ackaged Food  stuffs .” 
2.2  GSO 21 "Hygienic Regulations for Food Plants & Their Personnel ". 
2.3         GSO 22 "Methods of test for coloring matter used in foodstuffs".   
2.4         GSO 168 "Requirements of storage facilities for dry and canned 
food stuff s".   
 
2.5      GSO ISO 542 "Oil seeds  – sampling ".   
2.6         GSO 2567  "Maximum limits of pesticide residues in agricultural and 
food products ".        
2.7          GSO 839    "Food packages – part 1: General requirements".   
2.8          GSO 841 "Maxi mum limit of mycotoxins permitted in food and animal                  
feeds – Aflatoxine".   
2.9       GSO 988 "Limits of radioactivity levels permitted in foods stuffs –    
Part 1"  
 
2.10        GSO 1016 "Microbiological criteria for food stuffs ".  
2.11 GSO 150 "Expiration period for food products  – part 2 ".   
2.12 GSO 1323 "Cereal and pulses – Determination of hidden  insect 
infestation – part 3 – Reference method".   
 
2.13      GSO 1395 "Methods of test for dry pulses ".   GSO DS 837/2021   GSO STANDARD  
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3.      Definitions : 
3.1 Dry pu lses:  
 
        Dry seeds of leguminous plants which are distingue had by their  
        low content , the pulses covered by this standard are:  
- Beans of phaseolus spp. (except phaseolus mungo L.vigna  
          mungo (L).Hepper and phaselous aureus Roxb .sy n. phaseolous  
          reditor L, Vigna  radiate (L) Wilczek).   
- Lentile of lens culinaris Medic, syn. Lens esculenta Moench.   
- Chick peas of cicer arientinum L.   
- Peas of pisum sativum L.   
- Field beans of vicia faba L.   
- Cow peas of vigina unguiculata (L .) Walp, syn, vigina sesquipedalis 
fruhw, Vigna sinensis (L.) Savi exd Hassk.   
 
3.2 Broken seeds:    
3.2.1   Broken in whole pulses: Pulses in which the cotyledons are 
separated or one cotyledon has been broken.   
3.2.2   Broken in split pulses: Pulses in which the cotyledons has been 
broken  
3.3   Pulses seeds with slight defect:  
  Seeds which have not reached normal development, or with 
extensive impurities on the coat, or with clear stain on the coat 
without the cotyledon being affected, or when the see ds coat is 
wrinkled with pronounced folding or broken pulses.   
3.4  Pulses seeds with serious defects:    
  Pulses seeds in which the cotyledon have been affected or attached 
by pests, or seeds with very slight traces of mould or decay or slight 
cotyed on staining.   
 
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3.5  Foreign matter:   
  Mineral or organic material (dust , twinges, seed coats, seeds of other 
species, dead insects, fragments, or remain of insect’s  other 
impurities of animal origin) .   
 
 
4. Style:   
          Pulses are presented in on e of the two style:  
4.1 Shelled pulses, with the cotyledons not separated.   
4.2 Shelled pulses, with the two cotyledons separated one from the other .   
 
5. Requirements : 
Dry pulses mentioned in item (3.1) must meet the following requirements:  
 
5.1     It shall b e prepared according the requirements mentioned in Gulf 
standard stated in item (2.2).   
5.2        It shall be free from any abnormal taste or small.   
5.3        It shall be free from any coloring matter.   
5.4     Moisture  content shall not exceed 15% except chickpeas  shall n ot excee d 
14%.                                
5.5    Pulses sold without seeds coat, the maximum moisture content shall be 
2%   lower in each case.   
5.6     Extraneous matter shall not exceed 1% of which not more than 0.25% 
shall be  mineral matter and not more than 0.10% shall be insects, fragments or 
remains of insects, and/or other impurities of animal origin.   
5.7      Seeds with serious defects shall not exceed 1.0%.   
5.8    Seeds with slight defects shall not exceed 7.0% of wh ich broken seeds 
must not exceed 3.0%.   
5.9     Seeds of similar color  but a different commercial type (except in beans 
with seeds) shall not exceed 3.0%, the seeds of different color  (other than 
discolored  seeds) shall not exceed 6.0%, and the discolored  seeds of the same GSO DS 837/2021   GSO STANDARD  
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 commercial type shall not exceed 10.0%, and the beans with green seed and 
peas with green seeds with slight discolored  shall not exceed 20%.   
5.10    The product shall be free from the following toxic or noxious seeds  
           in amo unt which may represent a hazard to human health:   
           Crotolaria (Crotolaria spp.), Corn cockle (Agrostemma githago L.),  
           Castor bean (Ricinus communis L.) Jimson weed (Datura spp).   
5.11   Pesticide residues in the product shall not e xceed for the  
          maximum permissible levels in Gulf standards mentioned in  
           item (2.6 ).  
5.12    The product shall be free from live insects or their stages.   
5.13    Microbiological requirements of the product shall be complying  to 
           what has been mentioned in Gulf standard stated in item (2.10).   
5.14   The radiation levels shall not exceed the limits specified in the  
          Gulf standard mentioned in item (2. 9).   
 
 
6            CONTAMINANTS : 
6.1         Heavy metals   
             Pulses shall be free from heavy metals in amounts which may represent  
             a haza rd to health.  
 
 
6.2         Pesticide residues  
             The product covered by thi s standard shall comply with the  
             maximum limits  of pesticide residues mentioned in item no (2. 6). 
 
 
 
6.3          Mycotoxins  
                
  The product covered by this standard shall comply with the   
maximum mycotoxins limits mentioned in i tem no (2. 8). GSO DS 837/2021   GSO STANDARD  
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 7 HYGIENE : 
7.1             The product  covered by this standard shall com ply with the  
                   hygienic regulations  mentioned in item no  (2.2).  
 7.2               To the extent possible in good manufacturing practice, the produ cts 
   shall be  free from objectionable matter.  
       7.3               When tested by appropriate methods of sampling and  
                           examination,  the   products:  
 
7.3.1 shall be free from micro -organisms in amounts which may represent a    
hazard to health;  
7.3.2 shall be free from parasites which may represent a hazard to health; 
and  
7.3.3 shall not contain any substance originating from  micro  – organisms                
in amounts which  may represent a hazard to health.  
 
8.          Packaging, transport ation and storage:   
 8.1       Packaging:  
            Pulses shall be packed in containers which will sounds,  
            safeguard, clean, not hazardous to human health, not used before and not  
            lead to contaminant of the product, the packagi ng shall be  complying  to  
            what  has been mentioned in Gulf standard stated in item (2. 7). 
            
8.2     Transportation:  
          Product containers shall be transported in such a way as to protect them     
         from damage and co ntamination.   
8.3  Storage:  GSO DS 837/2021   GSO STANDARD  
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          The product shall be stored in stores with good ventilation and away from  
         direct sunlight, the stores shall be complying to what has been mentioned  
          in Gulf standard stated in item ( 2.4).   
 
 
9.      Labelling : 
         In addition to the provisions of the general standard for the  
         labelling mentioned in (2.1), the following specific provisions apply:  
9.1     Years of harvest (month – year).   
9. 2     Product name . 
9.3     Country of origin .   
 
10.       Sampling:   
           Sample shall be taken according to Gulf standard mentioned in item 
(2.5).   
 
11.    Methods of test:  
                      Tests shall be carried out on the representative samples taken according  
item (8), according to  the Gulf standard mentioned in item (2.1 3).