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Quality control in export shipments of commercial oil and oilseed products
Author(s) -
Sizer W. B.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
journal of the american oil chemists' society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1558-9331
pISSN - 0003-021X
DOI - 10.1007/bf02636234
Subject(s) - business , commission , grading (engineering) , agricultural science , quality (philosophy) , government (linguistics) , agency (philosophy) , control (management) , agricultural economics , operations management , environmental science , engineering , finance , economics , management , philosophy , linguistics , civil engineering , epistemology
In Canada, as in the USA, the quality of commercial oil exports is determined by independent laboratories, whereas the quality of oilseed exports is controlled by government agencies. An independent laboratory has no direct control of oil exported. The oil is sampled and analyzed at the time of shipment to determine whether certain contract specifications are met. Since a particular oil may be shipped to any of a number of countries with different end uses, analysis requirements are not necessarily the same. Besides analysis, other precautions are taken to ensure that quality is maintained. These include inspections of ships’ tanks for cleanliness and suitability. In respect to oilseeds in Canada, quality is controlled at various stages by strict adherence to grading standards regarding such items as dockage, seed maturity and moisture. All of this sampling and control work is done by the Canadian Grain Commission, a government agency. Government grading standards make no reference to oil content, but since most exports of oilseed are sold on a certain minimum oil content, an analysis for this is performed by an independent laboratory on samples taken by the Canadian Grain Commission at the time of shipment.