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.