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RoHS testing, reporting standards progressing.


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 testing and reporting methods for RoHS? International task groups are busily working on them.

The International ElectroTechnical Commission See IEC.

(standard, body) International Electrotechnical Commission - (IEC) A standardisation body at the same level as ISO.
 (iec.ch) is developing a standard that will define test procedures for determining the concentration of regulated substances. An IEC task group met recently in Cape Town Cape Town or Capetown, city (1991 pop. 854,616), legislative capital of South Africa and capital of Western Cape, a port on the Atlantic Ocean. It was the capital of Cape Province before that province's subdivision in 1994. , South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. , where it reviewed more than 95 pages of comments received from various national committees on its latest draft. A decision whether will issue a new draft or move to vote will be made by Dec. 15.

Other activities include ASTM International ASTM International (ASTM) is an international standards developing organization that develops and publishes voluntary technical standards for a wide range of materials, products, systems, and services.  F40, which is reviewing existing test methods that are or might be made to be applicable to electronics equipment and raw materials, and China, which published six test methods in late September. (For information on proposed regulations from China, visit NIST's Notify US website at http://tsapps.nist.gov/notifyus/data/index/index.cfm)

Presentations from an October NIST-sponsored workshop on testing and reporting procedures are available at cstl.nist.gov/nist839/RoHS/RoHS_Meeting.htm.
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Title Annotation:Industry NEWS
Author:Buetow, Mike
Publication:Circuits Assembly
Date:Dec 1, 2005
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