BS 5987:1980 BRITISH STANDARD IS0 1839:1980 CONFIRMED OCTOBER1995 Methods for Sampling tea UDC 663.95:620.113 BSi BS 5987:1980 Cooperating organizations The Food and Agriculture Standards Committee, under whose direction this heffieldun sheffieldun, na, Mon Dec 04 14:54:44 GMT+00:00 2006, Uncontrolled Copy, (c) BSI British Standard was prepared, consists of representatives from the following: Agricultural Co-operation and Marketing Services Agricultural Research Council, Meat Research Institute British Food Manufacturing Industries Research Association British Industrial Biological Research Association Ltd. CampdenFood Preservation ResearchAssociation Consumer Standards Advisory Committee of BSI Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Department of Agriculture (Government of Northern Ireland) Department of Industry (Laboratory of the Government Chemist)* Flour Milling and Baking Research Association Food and Drink Industries Council Food Manufacturers'Federation Incorporated Institute of Brewing Local Authorities Co-ordinating Body of Trading Standards Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food* National Farmers' Union National Farmers' Union of Scotland Tobacco Advisory Council The organizations marked with an asterisk in the above list, together with the following,were directly represented on the Technical Committee entrusted with the preparation of this British Standard: British Tea Producers' Association Overseas DevelopmentAdministration TropicalProductsInstitute Tea Trade Committee This British Standard, having been prepared under the direction of the Food and : sh Agriculture Standards Copy: Committee, was published under the authority of the Executive Board and comes Amendments issued since publication into effect on Licensed 29 August 1980 Amd. No. Date of issue Comments BSI 12-1999 The following BSI references relate to the work on this standard: Committee reference FAC/8 Draft for comment 77/51686 DC ISBN0580115976 BS 5987:1980 Contents Page Cooperating organizations Inside front cover National foreword i 1 Scope and field of application 1 2 Definitions 1 3 Apparatus 1 4 General 1 5 Sampling from containers 1 6 Packaging and labelling of samples 3 7 Despatch of samples 3 8 Sampling report 3 Table 1 2 Table 2 2 Publication referred to Inside back cover @BSI 12-1999 1