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GCC STANDARDIZATION ORGANIZATION (GSO) 
 
  
  
  
 
 Final draft standard 
  
  
  
GSO      :2010 
 
      
 
  
Food For  Special Dietary Uses 
Low calorie chocolate diabetics 
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
 
Prepared by: 
Gulf technical committee for food and agricultural products 
 
 
 
 
 
ICS 67.180.10 
 
This document is a draft Gulf Standard circulated f or comments, it is therefore, subject to 
Alteration and modification, and may not be referre d it as a Gulf Standard, until  
By the Board of Directors Foreword 
 
Standardization Organization for (GCC) is a regiona l Organization which 
consists of National Standard Bodies of GCC member States. 
One of GCC main function is to issue Gulf Standards  through specialized 
technical committees (TCs). 
GSO through the technical program of committee TC N o. (5) 'Technical Gulf 
committee for food and agricultural products standa rds' has prepared the 
standard of "Food For Special Dietary Uses –  Low calorie chocolate 
diabetics"  The draft standard has been prepared by the state of Kuwait, after 
review the Arabic, foreigner and International stan dards and related complied 
references. 
 
This standard has been approved as Gulf technical r egulation by GSO Board of 
Directors in its meeting No…./ …… held on ……/……H,        /        /    G. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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٣Food For  Special Dietary Uses 
Low calorie chocolate diabetics 
 
1p Scope 
This Gulf Standard Specification Concerned with the  requirements for lowH
calorie chocolate . 
  
2   Complementary References  
2.1 GSO 9 "Labeling of prepackaged food stuffs" 
2.2      GSO21 " Hygienic regulation for food plants a nd their personnel " 
2.3     GSO 1016 “Microbiological Criteria for Foodstu ff – Part 1” 
2.4    GSO 839 " Food packages H part 1: general H require ments  
2.5     GSO 192 " food additive that will be adopted b y GCC 
2.6     GSO CAC 193 "General standard for contaminants in food "  
 
3   Definitions 
The chocolate included in this standard shall be pr ocessed by homogeneous 
mixing of any of the core of the cocoa beans or cru shed cocoa after suitable 
manufacturing , or cocoa powder and sugar substitut es or artificial 
sweeteners, or both, with cocoa butter, powdered mi lk and other material  
may add which are healthy  authorized to improve th e properties of taste of 
the final product . 
 
4 General Requirements 
4.1 Raw materials shall be comply to Gulf  standards of their respective  . 
4.2 Sugar substitutes or artificial sweeteners used sho uld be healthy authorized . 
      for  patients with diabetes . 
4.3 glucose , invert sugar ,bilateral sugar , starch or   binary products in the 
      preparation of these products   are not permitted to use .  
 
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4.4  product must be cohesive easy emulsifying  
4.5 product shall  have acceptable taste and odor, and  free from rancidity  – 
4.6  product shall be homogeneous in color free of spot ting and form  
        Limestone  
4.7 Filler healthy  authorized may used  for patients w ith diabetes 
 
5 Chemical requirements : 
5.1 moisture shall not exceed 3% . 
5.2 Total Ash shall not exceed of 2.5%. 
5.3 Total fat ratio shall not exceed  35%. 
5.4 The proportion of chocolate powder dry fatHfree for   shall be less than 12%  
      in the case  of plain chocolate sweetened, an d 7% in the case of chocolate 
      milk. 
  
6 Microbiological Limits 
6.1 microbiological level shall be comply with  gulf st andard GSO1016 state in 
item 3.2 . 
 
7 Metal contaminants 
7.1 Metals limit shall be comply with gulf standard GSO /CAC193 state in item 
6.2. 
 
8 Packing : 
H Packaging to be on the covers and packages that mai ntain the qualities of 
the Product and be clean and free from defects and do not affect the 
product during storage . 
H Packing should be  according to the GSO standard me ntioned in item 4.2 
 
 
 
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9  labeling 
Without prejudge to what mentioned in gulf standard  GSO9"Labeling of 
prepackaged food stuffs Written on the packaging to  the following data in 
Arabic written in clear nonHremovable and may be wr itten in one of the other 
foreign languages besides Arabic : 
9.1     Product name, address and trademark, if any,  
9.2   Guidelines for consumer inclouding. calories per un it of submission 
9.3  Year of production H and the expiration date 
 
9.4  Name and address of the source and country of ori gin 
9.5  Sugar substitutes are used and its percentage 
9.6 Consumer guidance under the guidance of professiona l health authorities,  
 
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11.Reference 
 
 
Syrian standard No. 1902p    
 
Egyptian standard 1667