EVS-EN 1482-3:2016

This document is applicable to the sampling of fertilizers or liming materials supplied or ready for supply to third parties, as a lot or in smaller lots where such supply or readiness for supply is subject to legal requirements.
This document specifies plans and methods of sampling of a lot of solid fertilizers or liming materials, if sampling in motion is not possible, to obtain samples for chemical analysis from static bulk heaps in order to ascertain compliance with legal requirements in particular in relation to the accuracy of compulsory or permitted statutory declarations.
The document is applicable to single nutrient fertilizers, to uniform complex fertilizers and to milled or granulated liming materials.
The methods described in this document are not suitable for sampling blended fertilizers.
NOTE  The term 'fertilizer' is used throughout the body of this European Standard and includes liming materials unless otherwise indicated.