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DIN Standards Committee Food and Agricultural Products

Overview

The European standard has been prepared at CEN/TC 260 "Fertilizers and lime fertilizers" (secretariat: DIN). National mirroring took place at Working Committee NA 057-03-02 AA "Düngemittel" ("Fertilizers") at DIN Standards Committee Food and Agricultural Products (NAL).
The document has been prepared within the framework of mandate M/454 issued to CEN by the European Commission. Within the scope of this mandate, the development and standardization of procedures for representative sampling of static heaps of fertilizers and lime fertilizers without having to move the heaps for sampling was carried out on the basis of practice-oriented sampling tests. The standard is applicable to the sampling of mineral fertilizers and liming materials supplied or ready for supply to third parties, as a lot or in smaller lots, where such supply or readiness for supply is subject to legal requirements. It specifies plans and methods of sampling of a lot of solid fertilizer or liming material, if sampling in motion according to DIN EN 1482-1 is not possible, to obtain samples from static bulk heaps in order to ascertain compliance with legal requirements, in particular in relation to the accuracy of compulsory or permitted statutory declarations. This European Standard is applicable to single nutrient fertilizers, to uniform complex fertilizers and to milled or granulated liming materials. The methods described in this part of EN 1482 are not suitable for sampling other types of fertilizer, for example blended fertilizers. The methods specified in this document are not applicable to obtain samples for physical analysis or for the chemical analysis which may be altered by particle granulometric segregation.

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Responsible national committee

NA 057-03-02 AA - Fertilizers  

Responsible european committee

CEN/TC 260/WG 1 - Sampling