prEN ISO 16094-1

Water quality -- Analysis of plastics in water -- Part 1: General and sampling

Scope

This document sets out the general principles for microplastics analytics and provides guidance on the design of sampling programmes and sampling techniques for all aspects of sampling of plastics in waters with low contents of total suspended solids (TSS). Included are waters from various sources, for example drinking water, ground water, precipitation water, surface water and water resulting from water treatment processes.