BS EN ISO 12873:2014

This standard BS EN ISO 12873:2014 Olive oils and olive-pomace oils. Determination of wax content by capillary gas chromatography is classified in these ICS categories:

• 67.200.10 Animal and vegetable fats and oils

This International Standard specifies the determination of the wax content, as a mass fraction expressed in milligrams per kilogram, of olive oils and olive-pomace oils. The individual waxes are separated according to the number of carbon atoms. The method is recommended for distinguishing between olive oil obtained by pressing or centrifuging and that obtained from olive pomace (olive-pomace oil).

NOTE This International Standard is based on COI/T.20/Doc. 18/Rev. 2:2007^[4].