Adopted Somali Standard · Active
SOS EAS 481:2008
Plastic carrier bags — Specification
Somali adoption of EAS 481:2008 · East African Community (EAC) — East African Standards Committee. Number, part, edition and year are taken over unchanged.
Adopted Somali Standard · Active. The original reference EAS 481:2008 is preserved unchanged; the national designation is SOS EAS 481:2008.
Somali Standard Code (SOS)
SOS EAS 481:2008
Original reference
EAS 481:2008
Source organisation
East African Community (EAC) — East African Standards Committee
Status
Adopted Somali Standard
Lifecycle: Active · Published
Scope
This East African standard specifies requirements for carrier bags that are made from plastic materials. This standard covers plastic carrier bags both domestically produced and imported, for use within the East African Community. This standard covers the thickness and printing requirement of these bags. This standard does not cover some specific plastic packaging materials such as bread bags, candies, laundry bags, refuse bags, bin liners and cement bags. Packages of specific items that must use plastics will be covered by separate standards.
Catalogue metadata
Bibliographic details
- Somali Standard Code (SOS)
- SOS EAS 481:2008
- Original reference
- EAS 481:2008
- Source organisation
- East African Community (EAC) — East African Standards Committee
- Designation family
- EAS
- Standard number
- 481
- Edition
- 1
- Year of publication
- 2008
- ICS
- 83.140.99;97.180
- HS code(s)
- 9017.80
- Number of pages
- 16
- Field
- Domestic and commercial equipment. Entertainment. Sports
- Group
- Miscellaneous domestic and commercial equipment
- Sector
- Plastic Industries
- Technical committee
- EASC/TC 009 — Food packaging and labelling
Adoption record
Adopted as a Somali national standard
- Adoption status
- Adopted Somali Standard
- Original reference
- EAS 481:2008
- Somali Standard Code (SOS)
- SOS EAS 481:2008
- Source organisation
- East African Community (EAC) — East African Standards Committee
- Adopting body
- Somali Bureau of Standards (SOBS)
Method, degree of correspondence and decision references are recorded by SOBS as the formal adoption file is completed.