New interstate standard GOST 32131-2021 Glass packaging. Bottles for alcoholic and non-alcoholic food products. General Specifications - Coming into effect

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As part of the planned work on the development of technical regulation with the participation of the Association "StekloSouz" of Russia under the leadership of the Standardization Expert, SE No. 0002063 Sergeeva L.S. work continues on the introduction of new interstate standards coming into effect.

MTK 074 "Glass containers and utensils"

The Interstate Council for Standardization, Metrology and Certification (Minutes No. 141-P dated June 30, 2021) adopted the interstate standard GOST 32131-2021 “Glass packaging. Bottles for alcoholic and non-alcoholic food products. General technical conditions”, submitted for consideration by the interstate ITC 074 “Glass containers and utensils”.

The following voted for the adoption of the standard: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Uzbekistan.

The standard was developed by the Limited Liability Company "Expert-Standard" with the active participation of members of the ITC (TC) 074 "Glass containers and utensils".

By order of the Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology dated September 7, 2021 No. 923-st, the interstate standard GOST 32131-2021 was put into effect as the national standard of the Russian Federation from March 1, 2022.

From this date, the interstate standard GOST 32131-2013 "Glass bottles for alcoholic and non-alcoholic food products" ceases to be valid in the Russian Federation. General Technical Conditions", which has been in force in Russia since June 2011.

The standard includes safety requirements in accordance with the technical regulations and amendments to it, new requirements for packaging and labeling of glass containers, taking into account the requirements for its disposal.

The scope of GOST 32131-2021 includes bottles used in industrial production for bottling, transporting and storing alcoholic and non-alcoholic food products.

Since glass packaging is subject to mandatory declaration, in order to reduce the error in test and measurement results, the draft standard includes requirements from the unified interstate standards that have entered into force, especially for control methods developed by TK 074 “Glass containers and utensils”. During the validity of GOST 32131-2013 “Glass bottles for alcoholic and non-alcoholic food products. General technical conditions” 16 new interstate standards have been developed and come into effect, some of them are harmonized with European standards and with ISO standards. Two interstate standards came into effect for the terminology of types of defects in 3 languages, for sizes and deviations from the nominal sizes of bottles, for methods of monitoring quality indicators established in the standard, and others.

The requirements of all newly introduced standards have been taken into account. For each indicator, a control method is indicated with reference to a specific standard. Section 4 "Classification, main parameters and dimensions" takes into account the requirements of the list of wine products given in TR CU 047/2018 "On the safety of alcoholic products".

At the request of the factories, a requirement was introduced to control the strength of the walls of the bottle body under the action of a mechanical impact of the pendulum of the pendulum pile driver in accordance with GOST 34381 “Glass packaging. The strength of the walls of the body on impact. Test Methods". Considering the absence of mass-produced devices in Russia and a targeted study of this issue on bottles of various designs, the value of impact energy is given in the standard recommended based on an analysis of foreign requirements.

In order to draw up contracts for the supply of their products for the current and subsequent years, glass factories should revise their CTOs taking into account the requirements of GOST 3213-2021 and other new standards, having received the Conclusion of an accredited standardization expert. Changes should be made to the technical documentation and brought to the attention of the relevant services.

In total, more than 50 Interstate and National standards are in force in the field of glass packaging for this period, the list of which is available in Expert-Standard LLC.

Gene. Director of Expert-Standard LLC, Standardization Expert, SE No. 0002063

L.S. Sergeeva

Press Center "StekloSouz"