Gala Apple Quality Control Inspection (Before loading and during loading)

AIM Control (AIM Group®)  Gala Apple quality control inspection carried out to certify that the shipment mentioned goods of Gala Apple are inspected during pre-loading inspections and also during loading. Email

Gala Apples are consisted of R.Gala = 'Royal Gala', Golden Del. = 'Golden Delicious'.

Pink Lady Apples are 'Cripps Pink', 'Rosy Glow' and 'Lady in Red'.

Aurora Golden Gala apple is a mid-season, yellow dessert apple with exceptional texture and keeping quality. The fruit flesh is extremely crisp and juicy, firm and sweet. The flavour is light, fresh, and pleasant, with honey and tropical notes. The shelf life of fruit after storage is excellent.

Fruit Description

• Shape: Globose to globose conical.
• Size: Medium, smaller than 'Golden Delicious' and similar to 'Royal Gala'.
• Color: The skin is yellow. In areas with cold nights before harvest, sometimes having #≤10% pinkish or orange blush. Flesh color cream to pale yellow.
• Skin: Tender, thin to medium thickness; glossy and smooth at harvest, becoming duller and slightly waxy in long term air storage at 1°C, or if picked overmature.
• Texture: Very crisp and breaking, very juicy, medium-grained, maintains breaking texture and juiciness in storage. Cut flesh browns fairly quickly.
• Firmness at harvest: Over six years, ranged from 6.6 to 7.6 kg/CM2.
• Soluble solids: At harvest, 13.0 to 15.1%. After 6 to 8 weeks of air storage, 14.2 to 16.4%.
• Acidity at harvest: 0.58 to 0.75 mg/100 mL, as malic acid.
• Flavour: Sweet, mild, fresh, delicate, with honey and tropical notes.
• Maturity season: In Summerland, usually harvested in the first few days of October, or about 20-25 days after 'Gala'.

• Keeping quality: Blind hedonic sensory evaluations were run between 55 and 76 days after harvest, over 6 harvest years against commercial cultivars. In these tests, the appearance, texture and flavour of Aurora Golden Gala were liked as much or more than 'Fuji', 'Golden Delicious' and 'McIntosh'. The appearance was liked less than 'Royal Gala'. Aurora Golden Gala™ retains texture and excellent eating quality for at least 5 months at 1°C. Shelf life was tested by removing fruit from air storage 117 to 167 days after harvest, leaving it at 20°C for one week, measuring firmness, and then subjecting the fruit to hedonic sensory panels. Over 6 years of such tests, the appearance, texture and flavour of Aurora Golden Gala™ were liked as well as or more than 'Fuji', 'Royal Gala', 'Braeburn' and 'Golden Delicious'.
• Use: Dessert apple, appropriate for medium to long term storage. Also excellent in salads, and can be used for baking.

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Fig. Intensity of selected attributes (each rated on a 0 to 9 scale) of Aurora Golden Gala™ fruit relative to commercial cultivars. Twelve trained judges drawn from a larger pool rated the fruit in each panel. The values are weighted means. The number of panels and years that the cultivar was tested appears in parentheses.

The survey findings are indicated below

• Container no.
• Country of Origin
• Producer
• Description of the cargo
• Quantity (cargo pieces / net weight / gross weight) of the cargo declared:
• Packing of the cargo
• AIM Control’s check-list of the inspection of the frozen foods:
• Pre – Inspection

Organoleptic analysis

• Smell
• Color
• Taste
• texture and
• sizes

Marks and labels product verification

Temperature of the cargo (min and max value)

Stuffing Supervision

• Container condition inspection
• Packing condition
• Storage supervision
• Temperature control carried out inside chambers
• Temperature control carried out inside chambers
• Temperature control carried out during cargo stuffing
• Container sealing

Quality inspection (additional quality requirements)

• Lots
• Count/Size
• Pallet ID No.
• Date code
• Variety
• Inventory
• Carton Type
• Brand
• Target market
• Carton Weight (KG)
• Empty Carton Weight
• Grade
• Colour
• % Blush (colour)
• Fruit size :Min, Max and Ave.
• Fruit size % out of spec:
• Ripeness (kg) Pressure: Min, Max and Ave.
• Brix %   Min. (measures the solids contained in a fluid)
• Brix %   Ave.
• Blemishes (%)
• Russeting (%)
• Rub Marks (%)
• Injuries (%)
• Waste (%)
• Hail Marks (%)
• Bruises (QTY/MM)
• Sunburn (%)
• Wind marks (%)
• Watery Spot (%)
• Texture
• Quality & Condition Rating  2-10
• Pre cooled (if applicable)
• Actual intake temp (if appl)
• Basic & Pack Spec (Y/N)
• Quality: Reason/ Causes//Comment
• Packing: Reason/ Causes//Comment

Disease: Alternaria rot (side rot) and surface mold, Blue mold Bitter rot, Bull’s-eye rot, Gray mold, Phacidiopycnis rot, Rhizopus rot, Sphaeropsis Rot, White rot, Speck rot and ect.

To take pictures of loading container and temperature of the container

Additional notes

Collecting of shipping document and analysis other relation.

This is evidence of AIM Control's Pink Lady & Gala Apple Quality Control Inspection services done by AIM 

Characteristics & Defects pink lady and gala apple quality control inspection services

• Core Rot
• Decay including Gloeosporium
• Internal Browning
• Scald
• Apple Scab
• Bitter Pit
• Bruising
• Cracks
• Greasiness
• Hail Marks
• Insect Damage
• Skin Penetrations
• Sunburn
• Blemishes
• Bruising
• Chemical Burn
• Calyx end cracks
• Dirty fruit
• Hail Marks
• Hammering and Ridging
• Insect Damage
• Lenticel Damage
• Malformations
• Net like russet
• Other defects

AIM Control (AIM Group®) in gala apple quality control inspection and for other fresh products and fresh fruit inspections and vegetable certificate

Representative Sampling in apples inspection of fresh fruits

• Number of samples

• Size of sample

• Method of sampling and calculation of percentages

• Sample size for count basis

• Sample size for weight basis

• Sample size for bulk bins or bulk lots sampling for internal defects

Tolerances & Application of Tolerances in gala apple quality control inspection

• Size

• Containers with mixed varieties

• Tolerances

• Approval and Certificate for quality apples fruits in fresh

• Product

• Number/type of containers brands/markings

• Origin

Survey of Condition of package and requirement for the apples product in shipping

• Tray and cell packed

• Jumble packed and volume filled

• Packing & Marking requirements

Temperature of product and RF (Reefer) container inspection

• Temperature of product

• Temperature of container

• Temperature diagram and box

• Pre-Trip Inspection (PTI)

• Loading & handling

Dimension and Sizes of apples verification

• Marking as to count

• Diameter and table & size designations

• Undersize and oversize specimens

Pressures of apples and Testing of apple’s pressures

• Pressures of the fruits apples

• Pressures Testing

We also offer the fruits inspection services for Fresh Grapes, Fresh Cherry, Fresh Pear and vegetable and fruits other in The international trading of import and export for business and the damage / loss claim for insurance.

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