INTERNATIONAL STANDARD | ISO 8442-2 First edition 1997-12 | ||
Materials and articles in contact with foodstuffs — Cutlery and table holloware — Part 2: Requirements for stainless steel and silver-plated cutlery Matériaux et objets en contact avec les denrées alimentaires — Coutellerie et orfèvrerie de table — Partie 2: Exigences relatives à la coutellerie et aux couverts en acier inoxydable et en métal argenté | |||
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International Standard ISO 8442-2 was prepared by the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) in collaboration with ISO Technical Committee TC 186, Cutlery and table and decorative metal hollow-ware, in accordance with the Agreement on technical cooperation between ISO and CEN (Vienna Agreement).
This first edition cancels and replaces ISO 8442:1988, which has been technically revised.
ISO 8442 consists of the following parts, under the general title Materials and articles in contact with foodstuffs — Cutlery and table holloware:
Part 1: Requirements for cutlery for the preparation of food
Part 2: Requirements for stainless steel and silver-plated cutlery
Part 3: Requirements for silver-plated table and decorative holloware
Part 4: Requirements for gold-plated cutlery
Further parts are proposed with the following titles:
Part 5: Specific cutting test
Part 6: Lacquered lightly silver-plated table and decorative holloware
Part 7: Specification for table cutlery made of precious metals and their alloys, especially silver cutlery
Part 8: Specification for silver table and decorative holloware
Annexes A to E form an integral part of this part of ISO 8442. Annex F is for information only.
The text of EN ISO 8442-2:1997 has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 194 "Utensils in contact with food", the secretariat of which is held by BSI, in collaboration with Technical Committee ISO/TC 186 " Cutlery and table and decorative metal hollow-ware".
This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by June 1998, and conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by June 1998.
EN ISO 8442 consists of the following parts:
Part 1: Requirements for cutlery for the preparation of food
Part 2: Requirements for stainless steel and silver-plated cutlery
Part 3: Requirements for silver-plated and decorative holloware
Part 4: Requirements for gold-plated cutlery
Further parts are proposed with the following titles
Part 5: Specific cutting test
Part 6: Lacquered lightly silver-plated table and decorative holloware
Part 7: Specification for table cutlery made of precious metals and their alloys, especially silver cutlery
Part 8: Specification for silver table and decorative holloware
According to the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organizations of the following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
This Standard, based on ISO 8442, is concerned with performance and does not include requirements for design, size, type of finish, blade flexibility, or similar characteristics which are matters of personal choice or which can be readily assessed by the purchaser at the point of sale. In this Standard the thickness of silver deposit is stipulated for each and every item, in contrast to traditional methods which relate to an average of 12 or 24 items, amongst which some items can have a significantly lower thickness of silver coating.
Attention is drawn to Directives of the European Community concerning materials and articles in contact with food, in particular to Directives EC 89/109 and EC 90/128.
This part of this Standard specifies material, performance requirements and test methods for table cutlery (knives, forks, spoons, carving sets, ladles, children's cutlery and other serving pieces).
This Standard is applicable to stainless steel cutlery and to silver-plated nickel silver, or silver-plated stainless steel, cutlery. It does not cover cutlery made wholly of precious metals, aluminium, non-stainless steel or that made entirely of nickel silver, nor does it cover gold-plated or chromium-plated cutlery.
Three minimum thicknesses of silver are specified for silver-plated cutlery.
This Standard incorporates by dated or undated reference, provisions from other publications. These normative references are cited at the appropriate places in the text and the publications are listed hereafter. For dated references, subsequent amendments to or revisions of any of these publications apply to this Standard only when incorporated in it by amendment or revision. For undated references the latest edition of the publication referred to applies.