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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 f ood and agricultural products  
 
 
 
 
 
ICS 67.180.10  
 
This document is a draft Gulf Standard circulated for comments, it is therefore, subject to 
Alteration and modification, and may not be referred it as a Gulf Standard, until  
By the Board of DirectorsForew ord 
 
Standardization Organization for (GCC) is a regional 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 tech nical program of committee TC No. (5) 'Technical Gulf 
committee for food and agricultural products standards' has prepared the 
standard of "Food For Special Dietary Uses – Low calorie chocolate 
diabetics " The draft standard has been prepared by the state o f Kuwait, after 
review the Arabic, foreigner and International standards and related complied 
references.  
 
This standard has been approved as Gulf technical regulation by GSO Board of 
Directors in its meeting No…./ …… held on ……/……H,        /        /    G . 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 3 Food For  Special Dietary Uses  
Low calorie chocolate diabetics  
 
1- Scope  
This Gulf Standard  Specification  Concerned with the requirements for low -
calorie chocolate  . 
  
2   Complementary References  
2.1 GSO 9 "Labeling of prepackaged food stuffs"  
2.2      GSO21 " Hygienic  regulation for food plants and their personnel "  
2.3     GSO 1016 “Microbiological Criteria for Foodstuff – Part 1”  
2.4    GSO 839 " Food packages - part 1: general - requirements  
2.5     GSO 192 " food additive that  will be adopted by G CC 
2.6     GSO CAC 193 "General standard  for contaminants in food "   
 
3   Definitions  
The chocolate included in this standard shall be processed by homogeneous 
mixing of any of the core of the cocoa beans or crushed cocoa after  suitable 
manufacturing , or cocoa powder and sugar substitutes or artificial 
sweeteners, or both, with cocoa butter, powdered milk and other material  
may add  which are healthy  authorized to improve the 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 should be healthy authorized . 
      for  patients with diabetes . 
4.3 glucose , invert sugar ,bilateral  sugar , starch or  binar y 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 fre e of spotting and form  
        Limestone  
4.7 Filler healthy  authorized may used  for patients with 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 fat -free for  shall be less than 12%  
      in the case  of plain chocolate sweetened, and 7% in the case of chocolate  
      milk. 
 
6 Microbiological Limits  
6.1 microbiological level shall be comply with  gulf standard GSO 1016 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 : 
- Packaging to be on the covers and packages that maintain the qualities of 
the Product and be clean and free from defects a nd do not affect the 
product during storage .  
- Packing should be  according to the GSO standard mentioned 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 non -removable and may be written in one of the other 
foreign languages besides Arabic :  
9.1     Product name, address and trademark, if any,  
9.2   Guidelines for consumer incl ouding . calories per unit of submis sion 
9.3  Year of production - and the expiration date  
 
9.4  Name and address of the source and country of origin  
9.5  Sugar substitutes are used and its percentage  
9.6 Consumer guidance under the guidance of professional health authorities,  
 
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Spotting                                                                                                             تبقع 
 
Sugar Substitute                                                                                      بذائم انسكز  
 
Calori c Value                                                                                   انسعزاث انحزاريت  
 
Sweeteners                                                                                                     محهيبث  
 
Special  Dietary Uses                                                          الاستعمبلاث انتغذويت انخبصت  
 
Filling Agent                                                                                              مبدة مبنئت  
 
 
 
 
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11.Reference  
 
 
Syrian standard No. 1902 -  
 
Egyptian stand ard 1667