This document specifies a method for determining the ash yield by cereals, pulses and their milled products intended for human consumption. The source materials and products covered are:

a)    grains of cereals;

b)    flours and semolinas;

c)     other milling products (bran and high bran content products, shorts);

d)    mixed cereal flours (mixes);

e)    cereal by-products other than c) (such as wheat gluten, maize grits, broken rice kernels);

f)     pulses and their by-products (flour).

This document does not apply to starches and starch derivatives (see ISO 3593), to products intended for animal feeding stuffs (see ISO 5984) or to seeds.