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Annex VIII TEST METHODS AND ANALYTICAL METHODS

United Kingdom

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The following test and analytical methods apply to control procedures for detergents on the market F1applied by the competent authority:

A

  • Storage vessel

    • B

  • Dosing device

    • C

  • Aeration chamber (three litres capacity)

    • D

  • Settling vessel

    • E

  • Air-lift pump

    • F

  • Collector

    • G

  • Sintered aerator

    • H

  • Air-flow meter

    • I

  • Air

    • A

  • Liquid level

    • B

  • Hard PVC

    • C

  • Glass or waterproof plastic (hard PVC)

    • A

  • Running-in period

    • B

  • Period used for calculation (twenty-one days)

    • C

  • Readily biodegradable surfactant

    • D

  • Surfactant not readily biodegradable

    • E

  • Biodegradation ( %)

    • F

  • Time (days)

    1. 1Reference method (confirmatory test)
    2. 2Determination of anionic surfactants in biodegradability tests
    3. 3Determination of non-ionic surfactants in biodegradation test liquors
    4. 4Preliminary treatment of anionic surfactants to be tested
    5. 5Preliminary notes

    Annotations

    Textual amendments

    F1

    Words in Annex 8 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Detergents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/672), regs. 1, 29; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

    Notes on the whole EU Regulation

    Textual amendments

    F1

    Substituted by Regulation (EC) No 1336/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 648/2004 in order to adapt it to Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures (Text with EEA relevance).

    F2

    Deleted by Regulation (EC) No 219/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny — Part Two.