Sunflower oil inspection
Sunflower oil inspection ensures high-quality control across all stages of the supply chain, helping minimize trade risks associated with non-compliance to agreed specifications, quantities, or documentation. The process, integral to both sunflower oil export and import operations, secures conformity to standards.
CISS GROUP provides expert sunflower oil inspection services worldwide to major agribusinesses and global trading companies in intermediate storage, warehouses, factories, and ports.
Sunflower oil inspection requirements vary significantly between refined and unrefined types, each with unique characteristics:
- Refined Sunflower Oil: This oil undergoes extensive purification, removing impurities that could affect taste or form sediment. Recognized by its lighter color, refined oil has a milder aroma, especially if deodorized or frozen. Refining removes free fatty acids, phospholipids, and tocopherols, enhancing shelf stability but slightly reducing its nutritional profile.
- Unrefined Sunflower Oil: This oil retains valuable nutrients, including vitamins E, F, phospholipids, and carotenoids. Available in premium, first, and second grades, it may have a mild musty odor and slight bitterness in lower grades, with some allowable sediment.
CISS GROUP's FOSFA-accredited inspectors perform sunflower oil inspections across the supply chain, offering a range of services:
The main stages of sunflower oil inspection:
Incoming/Outgoing Inspection: Conducted during sunflower oil transfers to tanks, ports, or factory warehouses, ensuring container suitability, compliance with transportation conditions, accurate labeling, and matching documentation. If oil is containerized, inspectors assess container integrity and packaging. Samples for chemical and technical analysis are taken if required.
Cleanliness Inspection of Containers/Holds: Before loading, inspectors visually check container and hold cleanliness and suitability, inspect the integrity of seals, and confirm compliance with transport standards.
Loading Process Monitoring and Sampling: Inspectors oversee the loading process, calculate weights, and inspect equipment for leaks or contamination. Samples are collected per FOSFA sampling guidelines, and at the end, inspectors seal containers. All findings are reported with real-time access for clients, and 24/7 inspection is available.
Laboratory Analysis: Quality checks are conducted in FOSFA-accredited labs per international standards, testing organoleptic properties, transparency, moisture, color, iodine value, impurities, and acid/peroxide values.
Additional tests for pesticides, mycotoxins, GMOs, dioxins, heavy metals, and radioactive elements ensure quality compliance.
Photo and Video Documentation: Each inspection stage is documented, with date-stamped photos and videos included in the final report for transparency.
Certification: Upon completion, CISS GROUP issues certificates with QR codes linked to secure PDF versions on the CISS GROUP website, protected by digital cryptographic signatures.