National foreword

This British Standard has been prepared under the direction of the Food and Agriculture Standards Committee. It is identical with ISO 3103‑1980“Tea — Preparation of liquor for use in sensory tests”, prepared by sub-committee 8, Tea, of Technical Committee 34, Agricultural food products, of the international Organization for Standardization (ISO). The UK provides the secretariat for the sub-committee.

Terminology and conventions. The text of the international standard has been approved as suitable for publication, without deviation, as a British Standard. Some terminology and certain conventions are not identical with those used in British Standards; attention is especially drawn to the following.

Wherever the words “International Standard” appear, referring to this standard, they should be read as “British Standard”.

The comma has been used as a decimal marker. In British Standards it is current practice to use a full point on the baseline as the decimal marker.

Cross-reference

A British Standard does not purport to include all the necessary provisions of a contract. Users of British Standards are responsible for their correct application.

Compliance with a British Standard does not of itself confer immunity from legal obligations.

Cooperating organizations

The Food and Agriculture Standards Committee, under whose direction this British Standard was prepared, consists of representatives from the following:

Agricultural Cooperation and Marketing Services
Agricultural Research Council, Meat Research Institute
British Food Manufacturing Industries’ Research Association
British Industrial Biological Research Association Ltd.
Campden Food Preservation Research Association
Consumer Standards Advisory Committee of BSI
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland
Department of Agriculture (Government of Northern Ireland)
Department of Industry (Laboratory of the Government Chemist)^*
Flour Milling and Baking Research Association
Food and Drink Industries’ Council
Food Manufacturers’ Federation Incorporated
Institute of Brewing
Local Authorities Coordinating Body of Trading Standards
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food^*
National Farmers’ Union
National Farmers’ Union of Scotland
Tobacco Advisory Council

The organizations marked with an asterisk in the above list, together with the following, were directly represented on the Technical Committee entrusted with the preparation of this British Standard:

British Tea Producers’ Association
Oversea Development Administration — Tropical Products Institute
Tea Trade Committee

This British Standard, having been prepared under the direction of the Food and Agriculture Standards Committee, was published under the authority of the Executive Board and comes into effect on 31 October 1980

The following BSI references relate to the work on this standard:

Committee reference FAC/8

Draft for comment 77/54163 DC

1 Scope and field of application

This International Standard specifies a method for the preparation of a liquor of tea for use in sensory tests, by means of infusing the leaf.

2 Definitions

3 Reference

4 Principle

5 Apparatus

5.1

5.2

6 Sampling

7 Procedure

7.1 Test portion

7.2 Preparation of liquor

8 Test report

Publications referred to

BS 6008:1980

Method for preparation of a liquor of tea for use in sensory tests

Published:

31 Oct 1980

Withdrawn:

18 Sep 2023