{"id":342825,"date":"2024-10-20T00:03:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T00:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdfstandards.shop\/product\/uncategorized\/bs-55771999\/"},"modified":"2024-10-25T23:18:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T23:18:56","slug":"bs-55771999","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/pdfstandards.shop\/product\/publishers\/bsi\/bs-55771999\/","title":{"rendered":"BS 5577:1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This British Standard specifies material and performance requirements for cutlery with non-metallic handles intended for use at the dining table. It includes knives, forks, spoons, carving sets, ladles and other serving pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Requirements are specified for stainless steel cutlery and silver-plated nickel-silver or silver-plated stainless steel cutlery. This standard does not cover cutlery wholly made of precious metals, aluminium, non-stainless steel or that made entirely of plastics, nor does it cover gold-plated or chromium-plated cutlery except for chromium-plated sharpening steels. However, cutlery incorporating sterling silver caps and ferrules or unplated nickel-silver rivets and caps are within the scope of this standard.<\/p>\n<p>Composition limits are specified for steels and non-ferrous metals for cutlery.<\/p>\n<p>Requirements are specified for non-metal handles made from the more commonly used materials (see <b>4.2.4<\/b>), but not those made from exotic materials such as ivory or mother-of-pearl. The standard includes requirements for cutlery with non-metal handles for use in a dishwashing machine.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of silver-plated cutlery, three minimum average thicknesses are specified, first, second and third class, with decreasing thickness of the silver deposit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Specification for table cutlery with non-metallic handles<\/b><\/p>\n<table class=\"shortdes-table\" style=\"width: 100%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Published By<\/td>\n<td>Publication Date<\/td>\n<td>Number of Pages<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/pdfstandards.shop\/product-category\/publishers\/bsi\/\"><b>BSI<\/b><\/a><\/td>\n<td>1999<\/td>\n<td>18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":342832,"template":"","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false},"product_cat":[1324,2641],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-342825","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-97-040-60","7":"product_cat-bsi","9":"first","10":"instock","11":"sold-individually","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdfstandards.shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/342825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdfstandards.shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdfstandards.shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdfstandards.shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdfstandards.shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdfstandards.shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=342825"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdfstandards.shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=342825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}