CEN/TC 222/WG 1 - Feather and down used as filling material for any article

This European standard provides the requirements necessary to satisfy the hygiene and cleanliness of feather and/or down filling materials. This European standard applies to finished feather and/or down materials used as a filling of a manufactured article.

This standard establishes provisions for the labelling of the composition of the components of the plumage for use as fillings and of the fowl species from which such components are derived (waterfowl or landfowl). It is applicable to finished feather and down materials, used as filling of manufactured articles, at each stage in their commercial distribution. This standard is not applicable for fillings totally containing more than 0,5% of foreign matter (3.6).

This European Standard specifies a method to check one of the cleanliness aspects of feather and down ready to be used through the determination of the amount of undissolved and solved matter present in the aqueous extract.

This method describes the dip slide procedures, that uses two types of agar to test the presence of commensal bacteria and coliforms (gram negative). This procedure is suitable when a manufacturer requires a simple test to screen finished filling material hygiene. This method cannot be used to test the presence of sulphito-reducing clostrides (gram positive) and salmonella (gram negative).

This European standard specifies a method for determining and calculating the comercial mass of a lot of feather and down, in order to control the invoice mass.

Informative annex to EN 1885 including the morphological characteristics that differentiate the elements of the plumage between waterfowl and landfowl used as filling material of finished articles.

This European Standard specifies the procedure for determining the filling power (massic volume). This method is applicable to finished down and/or feather, fit for or constituting filled manufactured articles (e.g. anoraks, quilts, etc.).

This European standard specifies a method for obtaining a representative laboratory bulk sample of a lot of feather materials and of feather materials in a manufactured product or of a manufactured product.

This European prestandard describes the procedure for determining the permanent deformation of filling material after dynamic fatigue stress under constant load. This method is applicable to finished feathers and/or mixtures, fit for or constituting filled manufactured articles, which, when used, are submitted to repeated compression cycles.