- AFOA
- American Fats & Oils Association
- ARA
- Australian Renderers Association
- BLEACH
- Colour reading expressed as yellow or red units.
- FAC
- Fat Analysis Committee - The test used for identifying product colour through comparison.
- FFA
- Free Fatty Acids - The percentage of fatty acids that have been split and are recorded as Oleic Acid. FFA is used as a key determinate for product quality; lower the FFA the better the product.
- FOSFA
- Federation of Oils, Seeds and Fats Association Limited
- INSOLUBLES
- Those substances that cannot be dissolved.
- M.I.U.
- The total quantity of moisture, soluble and insoluble impurities and unsaponofiable matter contained in a fat.
- M&I
- Moisture and impurities.
- SAPONIFIABLE MATTER
- Those substances, which cannot be converted into a soap by the use of an alkali.
- TITRE
- The determinate of whether to product is a soft or hard product, and the temperature (in Deg C) at which point the Tallow becomes solid.
