Total Alcohol Amount

Total Alcohol Amount

Turkish food codex distilled alcoholic beverages communiqué by the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock, in order to regulate the principles for the preparation, processing, production, storage, transportation, preservation, placing on the market and protection of geographical indications of distilled alcoholic beverages with appropriate methods and under hygienic conditions (communiqué no: 2016/55 was published.

Total Alcohol Amount

This legal regulation includes the definition and characteristics of distilled spirits. The scope of the Communiqué does not include malt beers, fresh grape wine, vermouth and other fresh grape wines flavored with herbal or fragrant substances and other fermented beverages such as cider, perry, mixtures of fermented beverages and non-alcoholic beverages and other fermented beverages.

Total alcohol content tests, conducted in advanced laboratories , take into account the criteria specified in national and international standards, along with the principles of these legal regulations.

The total amount of alcohol represents the sum of the actual amount of alcohol and the amount of potential alcohol. The actual amount of alcohol represents the pure alcohol by volume measured at the same temperature in 20 percent of the product at 100 degrees Celsius, and the potential alcohol content represents the amount of pure alcohol by volume, obtained as a result of fermentation of the remaining sugar in the product, measured at the same temperature at 20 percent of the product at 100 degrees Celsius.

In the test, analysis, measurement and evaluation studies carried out in our organization, national and international standards and applicable legal regulations are complied with and reliable and impartial results are obtained. Among the numerous tests carried out in this context, there are also total alcohol content testing services.

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