DIN Standards Committee Food and Agricultural Products
Compost and digestate - Determination of the content of macroscopic impurities and stones; German version EN 16202:2026
Abstract
This document specifies a method to determine the visible macroscopic impurities > 2 mm and stones > 5 mm in compost and digestate. Macroscopic impurities are contaminants that are not naturally occurring in soil such as pieces of glass, metal, plastic. This method is not able to make a distinction between compostable and non-compostable plastics. Fragments of wood or bark are acceptable constituents of the sample and not classified as macroscopic impurities. NOTE This method has been validated in an interlaboratory study with specific products that were present on the market during the study (as included in Annex A, being biowaste compost, green waste compost, biowaste solid digestate, biowaste liquid digestate, and kitchen biowaste compost).
Begin
2021-11-29
WI
00223112
Planned document number
DIN EN 16202
Project number
05702291
Responsible national committee
NA 057-03-01 AA - Soil improvers and growing media
Responsible european committee
CEN/TC 223/WG 8 - Physical contamination
draft standard
Compost and digestate - Determination of the content of macroscopic impurities and stones; German and English version prEN 16202:2025
2025-08
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