This Standard is applicable to all textile products, including cloth, wadding, thread and material for clothing, bedclothes, home furnishings and miscellaneous goods, regardless of the type of antibacterial agent used (organic, inorganic, natural or man-made) or the method of application (built-in, after-treatment or grafting).

Based on the intended application and on the environment in which the textile product is to be used and also on the surface properties of the textile properties, the user can select the most suitable of the following four determination methods on determination of antibacterial activity.

a) Absorption method An evaluation method in which test bacterial suspension is inoculated directly onto the specimens.

b) Transfer method An evaluation method in which test bacteria are placed on an agar plate and transferred onto the specimens.

c) Printing method An evaluation method in which test bacteria are placed on a filter and printed onto specimens.

d) Halo method A qualitative method to evaluate by the existence of halo

The colony plate count method and the ATP (ATP = Adenosine Tri-phosphate) luminescence method are also specified for measuring the enumeration of bacteria.

The evaluation of photocatalytic antibacterial efficacy treated on the photocatalytic finished textile product shall be carried out according to JIS R 1702.

NOTE: The International Standard corresponding to this Standard and the symbol of degree of correspondence are as follows.

ISO 20743: 2013 Textiles-Determination of antibacterial activity of textile products (MOD)

In addition, symbols which denote the degree of correspondence in the contents between the relevant International Standards andJIS are IDT (identical), MOD (modified), and NEQ (not equivalent) according toISO/ IEC Guide 21-1.

This document specifies a method for determining the total number of colony-forming units of yeast and mould in dry market pulp, paper and paperboard after disintegration. The enumeration relates to specific media.

ISO 8784-1:2005 is applicable to most kinds of paper and paperboard, especially those grades intended to come into contact with foodstuffs.

The type and extent of deterioration can be determined by

a) visual examination and/or

b) changes in mass and/or

c) changes in other physical properties.

The tests are applicable to all plastics that have an even surface and that can thus be easily cleaned. The exceptions are porous materials, such as plastic foams.

This document uses the same test fungi as IEC 60068-2-10. The IEC method, which uses so-called "assembled specimens", calls for inoculation of the specimens with a spore suspension, incubation of the inoculated specimens and assessment of the fungal growth as well as any physical attack on the specimens.

The volume of testing and the test strains used depend on the application envisaged for the plastic.

This document is applicable to all textile products, including cloth, wadding, thread and material for clothing, bedclothes, home furnishings and miscellaneous goods, regardless of the type of antibacterial agent used (organic, inorganic, natural or man-made) or the method of application (built-in, after-treatment or grafting).

This document covers three inoculation methods for the determination of antibacterial activity:

a) absorption method (an evaluation method in which the test bacterial suspension is inoculated directly onto specimens);

b) transfer method (an evaluation method in which test bacteria are placed on an agar plate and transferred onto specimens);

c) printing method (an evaluation method in which test bacteria are placed on a filter and printed onto specimens).

NOTE            Based on the intended application and on the environment in which the textile product is to be used, and also on the surface properties of the textile properties, the user can select the most suitable inoculation method.

This document also specifies the colony plate count method and the adenosine triphosphate (ATP) luminescence method for measuring the enumeration of bacteria.