pinfa outlined tomorrow’s fire safety challenges at the 18th Fire Retardant Polymeric Materials conference (FRPM), Budapest. FRPM21 took place in Budapest and online, 29 Aug – 1 Sept 2021, with 125 in-person and 30 online participants from 18 countries, and nearly 100...
Dutch Safety Board calls for furniture fire safety requirements after investigating a home fire in which two people died. A man and his 4-year old son were killed by toxic smoke in an apartment building fire in Arnhem, The Netherlands, on New Year’s Eve 2020, when a...
ISO 1043-4 (Plastics) has been updated to specify separate identification of the brominated FR HBCD. The international standard ISO 1043-4 (2021) “Plastics – symbols and abbreviated terms – part 4: flame retardants” is now amended to add two specific new FR families:...
An EU general public consultation on smart phone & tablet Ecodesign priorities is open to 23 August 2021. This consultation targets smart phone and tablet users (general public) and companies and organisations involved in manufacture, servicing, recycling or other...
Over 100 companies and organisations have defined and endorsed six principles for access to information on chemicals. The principles have been developed by a stakeholder coalition, led by Clean Production Action (CPA), over the last 18 months, and other companies and...
