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ISO 8442-4:1997
Materials and articles in contact with foodstuffs -- Cutlery and table holloware -- Part 4: Requirements for gold plated cutlery
This Standard specifies the following requirements for gold plated cutlery:
- performance requirements for table cutlery (for example, knives, forks, spoons, carving sets, ladles, and other serving pieces);
- composition limits for base metals for cutlery;
- tests for resistance to permanent deformation , firmness of handle attachment, hardness of blades, resistance to corrosion and the thickness and adhesion of gold coatings;
- three minimum thicknesses of gold plating: a first class, a second class, and a third class.
This Standard specifies the method of defining gold deposits for each and every item and also test methods.
This Standard does notapply to table cutlery which has only small areas of gold plate as inlays in non gold plated decoration.
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