The 2nd Edition, editor Alex Morgan, updated from 2014, with 600 pages, details different PIN FR technologies and trends. The Handbook includes 335 references and a 35-page detailed index. The 1st Edition, 419 pages, was summarised in pinfa Newsletter n° 45. The...
The 15th Report on Carcinogens of the US Department of Health and Human Services adds antimony trioxide, as one of eight further substances to the 248 already known or anticipated to cause cancer. The published report on ATO indicates that in addition to occupational...
pinfa has published a 50-page brochure detailing FR applications for materials in tomorrow’s transport vehicles: airplanes, ships, trains, buses, and cars. Designers, manufacturers and transport operators increasingly rely on flammable materials to reduce weight...
Public and stakeholder questionnaire on how to provide online information, via labels, to consumers for chemical products such as, detergents, fertilisers and “chemical products, such as glues, paints, solvents, lamp oils”. Open to 16th February 2022. The proposal...
The Commission proposal centres on online sales, enforcement and recalls, and new technologies: fire is not mentioned. The General Product Safety Directive (GPSD 2001/95) will become a “Regulation”, making it more directly applicable. The Commission proposal (30th...
