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Safety Testing Cookware

Cookware testingCookware is tested for importers, retailers, designers and trading standards officers to ensure its safety.

 

 

 

 

Regulations

Ceramic ware, glassware and vitreous enamel ware are referred to in the Ceramic Articles in Contact with Food Regulations 2006. These Regulations require that a product comply with BS 6748, which tests for the release of lead and cadmium from the product.

The safety of cookware is also controlled by the General Product Safety Regulations. These Regulations provide a legal framework to ensure that a producer or distributor supplies a safe product.

Relevant Standards

As referred to above BS 6748 is applicable to certain products; however, BS 7557 specifies limits for metal release from painted surfaces liable to come into contact with foodstuffs. This standard therefore is more general in that it could apply to any cookware with a painted surface. Another standard directly applicable to cookware is BS EN 12983-1. This standard contains a number of tests and specifications that relate to the safety of cookware.

Available Tests

Listed below is a selection of tests, relating to the safety of cookware, that can be carried out by Staffordshire Scientific Services:

  • BS EN 12983
  • Mechanical hazards
  • Lid design
  • Resistance to burning
  • Thermal hazards
  • Heat resistance
  • Bending strength
  • Fatigue resistance
  • Lead and cadmium release according to BS 6748
  • Lead and cadmium release according to BS 7557

Our Credentials

Staffordshire Scientific Services is an efficient and reliable scientific service offering testing and analysis, advice and support to customers in the public and private sector.

We have two Public Analysts, twenty well-qualified, experienced staff, based in our Stafford laboratory which is accredited to UKAS Quality Standard ISO/IEC 17025 and is an Official UK Food Enforcement Laboratory.

View UKAS accreditation schedule for Staffordshire.

Getting In Touch

Staffordshire Scientific Services
14 Martin Street
Stafford ST16 2LG

T: 01785 277 825 F: 01785 277 812Email: county.analysts@staffordshire.gov.uk

Staffordshire County Council website