This International Standard specifies the general principles to be applied when sampling batches of raw tobacco in order to assess either

• the mean value of one or more of its characteristics, or
• the heterogeneity of one or more of its characteristics.

This International Standard is applicable to the sampling of batches of raw tobacco of the following types:

• leaf tobacco:
  • flue cured,
  • air cured,
  • sun cured,
  • fire cured;
• pretreated raw tobacco:
  • which has undergone fermentation (in packages not intended for retail or wholesale sales or distribution, in bulk, in chambers),
  • which has been partially or completely stemmed,
  • which is in the form of stems,
  • which is in the form of waste and remnants,
  • which has been reconstituted in the form of strips.