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Description of PAS 100:2018 2018This Publicly Available Specification (PAS) specifies requirements for the process of composting, the selection of input materials, the minimum quality of composted materials and the storage, labelling and traceability of compost products. It specifies requirements for a Quality Management System (QMS) for the production of composts to ensure they are consistently fit for their intended uses. It also requires a Safety and Quality Control System, including Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) assessment, which the composter takes into account when developing, implementing and reviewing the QMS.
This PAS is for composts from a composting system into which only source segregated biowastes (see 3.66 and 3.9) and/or biodegradable non-waste materials are fed. Inputs to the composting process are allowed to include digestate (whole digestate, separated fibre or separated liquor) from an anaerobic digestion facility that processes only source-segregated biowastes and/ or biodegradable materials as inputs, that is compliant with PAS 110 (see 5.1.6 and its notes). Digestate (whole digestate, separated fibre or separated liquor) from a non-PAS 110 anaerobic or aerobic digestion process is only allowed to be added to a PAS 100 composting process if the digestate is made only from input materials allowed by PAS 100 (see 5.1.6 and its Notes).
This PAS allows a composting process to utilize thermophilic aerobic digestion (TAD, see 3.74) for its sanitization step instead of aerobic composting (see Clause 7 Table 1) and the resulting compost can be claimed compliant with this PAS if all requirements are met. However, any whole digestate or separated liquor output arising from the TAD step that is not utilized in a subsequent aerobic composting step to form compost (see 3.17) is not allowed to be claimed compliant with this PAS.
This PAS does not specify tests for specific or indicator plant pathogens due to a lack of validated methods.
PAS 100 is applicable to product-oriented composting processes and the composter is responsible for establishing and consistently fulfilling any additional quality needs the customer has. Vermi-composting is within the scope of this PAS where it follows a sanitization step of thermophilic aerobic composting or TAD (see 6.3). PAS 100 does not apply to composting activities that do not require registration with the regulator, such as composting at home.
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