CODEX STAN 167-1989 Standard for Salted Fish and Dried Salted Fish of the Gadidae Family of Fishes
1. SCOPE
This standard applies to salted fish and dried salted fish of the Gadidae family which has been fully saturated with salt (heavy salted) or to salted fish which has been preserved by partial saturation to a salt content not less than 12% by weight of the salted fish which may be offered for consumption without further industrial processing.
2. DESCRIPTION
2.1 PRODUCT DEFINITION
Salted fish is the product obtained from fish:
(a) of the species belonging to the family Gadidae; and
(b) which has been bled, gutted, beheaded, split or filleted, washed, salted.
(c) dried salted fish is salted fish which have been dried.
