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This document specifies a titrimetric method for the determination of acid value in light coloured Fatty Acid Methyl Esters, hereinafter referred as FAME.

It allows the determination of acid value within a range of 0,10 mg KOH/g to 1,00 mg KOH/g.

NOTE 1 For the purposes of this document, the terms "% (m/m)" and "% (V/V)" are used to represent respectively the mass fraction and the volume fraction.

NOTE 2 For oils and fats the determination of acid value is specified in EN ISO 660 [1].

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