ISO INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 6673 Second edition 2003-09-01 Green coffee Determination of loss in mass at 105 °C Café vert - Détermination de la perte de masse a 105 C Reference number A ISO 6673:2003(E) ISO @ ISO 2003 ISO 6673:2003(E) PDF disclaimer This PDF file may contain embedded typefaces. In accordance with Adobe's licensing policy, this file may be printed or viewed but shall not be edited unless the typefaces which are embedded are licensed to and installed on the computer performing the editing. In downloading this file, parties accept therein the responsibility of not infringing Adobe's licensing policy. The Iso Central Secretariat accepts no liability in this area. Adobe is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Details of the software products used to create this PDF file can be found in the General Info relative to the file; the PDF-creation ? ISO2003 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and microfilm, without permission in writing from either isO at the address below or IsO's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office Case postale 56 . CH-1211 Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail [email protected] Web www.iso.org Published in Switzerland @ ISO 2003 - All rights reserved ISO 6673:2003(E) Foreword Iso (the International Organization for Standardization) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies (IsO member bodies). The work of preparing International Standards is normally carried out through IsO technicalcommittees.Eachmemberbodyinterestedinasubjectforwhichatechnical committeehasbeen non-governmental, in liaison with isO, also take part in the work. isO collaborates closely with the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) on all matters of electrotechnical standardization. International Standards are drafted in accordance with the rules given in the IsO/lEc Directives, Part 2. The main task of technical committees is to prepare International Standards. Draft International Standards adopted by the technical committees are circulated to the member bodies for voting. Publication as an International Standard requires approval by at least 75 % of the member bodies casting a vote. Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. IsO shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights. ISO 6673 was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 34, Food products, Subcommittee SC 15, Coffee This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition (sO 6673:1983), of which it constitutes a minor revision. hizationforStand ationrights reserved ii Copvriaht International Oraanization for Standardizatior INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO 6673:2003(E) Green coffee Determination of loss in mass at 1o5 °0 1 Scope This International Standard specifies a method for the determination of the loss in mass at 105 'C of green coffee. It is applicable to decaffeinated and non-decaffeinated green coffee as defined in Iso 3509 This method of determining the loss in mass can be considered, by convention, as a method for determining the water content and can be used as such by agreement between the interested parties, but it gives results which are lower, by about 1,0 %, than those obtained with the method described in IsO 1446 (this method serves only as a reference method for calibrating methods of determining the water content). Normative references The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated references,onlytheedition citedapplies.For undated references,thelatest edition of thereferenced document (including any amendments) applies. Iso 3509, Coffee and its products— Vocabulary 3Terms and definitions For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions given in IsO 3509 and the f