This European Standard defines terms related to certain materials for non-metallic tableware in contact with foodstuffs. It only includes those articles composed of the following materials: glass, glass ceramics, porcelain, vitreous china/vitrified tableware, stoneware, earthenware, common pottery or plastic.
NOTE Main tableware articles in contact with foodstuffs are: plates, soup tureens, salad bowls, vegetable dishes and trays of all kinds, from oven to tableware', coffee-pots, teapots, sugar bowls, milk jugs, beer mugs or tankards, cups, sauce-boats, fruit bowls, butter dishes, cruets, salt cellars, mustard pots, and drinking glasses.
BS EN 1900:1998 history
1998BS EN 1900:1998 Materials and articles in contact with foodstuffs - Non-metallic tableware - Terminology