This International Standard specifies a method to enumerate the colony-forming units of yeasts, moulds and bacteria which can exist on cork stoppers and can grow in an alcoholic solution under certain conditions.
This International Standard applies to cork stoppers which were submitted to the usual sanitizing procedures.
ISO 10718:2002 history
2015ISO 10718:2015 Cork stoppers - Characterization of a low-in-germs stopper, through the enumeration of colony-forming units of yeasts, moulds and bacteria, capable of both being extracted and growing in alcoholic medium
2002ISO 10718:2002 Cork stoppers - Enumeration of colony-forming units of yeasts, moulds and bacteria capable of growth in an alcoholic medium
1993ISO 10718:1993 Cork stoppers — Enumeration of colony-forming units of yeasts, moulds and bacteria capable of growth in an alcoholic medium