MS 164:2010 Specification of composted materials

Scope:
This Mauritian Standard specifies the requirements for composted materials that have been derived from organic materials.

This standard applies to organic products or mixtures of organic products that are to be used to amend the physical and chemical properties of natural or artificial soils and growing media.

This standard is not applicable to home composting end products for self-use, nor does it apply to organic fertilizers derived from blood and bone. Also excluded are liquid organic wastes, sewage sludge, seaweed extracts, non-organic mulches (e.g gravel), noncompostable organic materials (e.g plastics) and materials variously described as ‘compost starters’ and ‘activators’.

Vermi-composting is within the scope of this standard where it follows a sanitization step of thermophilic, aerobic composting