AFNOR Normalization

Specifications and test methods for diesel fuel (normal and severe cold grades) (from the standard NF EN 590 see AFNOR information document M15-007 and M15-022). 

For standardised instrumental analytical methods, i.e. biomarkers, biosensors and bioassays, there are well-established standard protocols on the national level, e.g. under Association Francaise de Normalisation (AFNOR), British Standard Institute (BSI), DIN (German Organisation for Standardisation), etc., and all those standards are formed by ISO-Working Groups and by validation studies into ISO - and CEN - Standards. Normal accredited and well-qualified laboratories should be able to perform the monitoring. 

A number of industrial chemicals were screened using AFNOR protocols with rabbits as the test systems. Information on the appearance and irritancy potential of different chemicals (and the classification thereof) offers valuable clues to the worker to avoid skin injury (Table 16-4). Certain drugs normally used by humans can cause adverse effects on eyes. The types of ocular disturbance are blurring of vision and diplopia, impairment of visual acuity, yellow vision (xanthopsia), corneal opacities, and lenticular opacities and drugs producing or precipitating the formation of cataract, which have been implicated with the use of candidate drugs. 

The main organizations that develop or validate methods for fats and oil analysis include International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry (lUPAC), International Oiganization for Standardization (ISO), Association of Official Analytical Chemists (AOAC), American Oil Chemists Society (AOCS), American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), Association Francaise de Normalization (AFNOR), British Standards Institution (BSI), Deustsches Institute fur Normung (DIN), and the Federation of Oils, Seeds and Fats Association (FOSFA). In addition, there is an increasing trend for the various national standard institutions to develop their own standard methods based on the standard ISO methods these are generally adopted as official methods. 

The oleoresins were analyzed by high performance liquid chromatography following the standard procedure of the Normalization French Association (AFNOR) (7). The quantification of each component was carried out by using the external standard vanillylnonanamide. 

Wood, A.B. Determination of the main pungent component (gingerols and shogaols), French Normalization, NF ISO 13685, AFNOR 1997. 

AFNOR Association Francais de Normalization ANTEC Annual Technical Conference (SPE)... 

The NF Environnement mark was created in 1991 it is a French ecological certification for Association frangaise de normalization (AFNOR). Products having this label have a reduced effect on the environment and also equivalent performance properties. It is a collective certification mark that certifies the quality and safety of the products and services (Url-24). 

Association Francaise de Normalization (French Standard Organization) (AFNOR)... 

As mentioned before, austenitic stainless steels are susceptible to IGC due to sensitization caused by exposure to high temperatures (450-850 C). The IGC of austenitic stainless steel can also be characterized by normalized classical tests ASTM G28, ASTM A262-86, SEP 1877, AFNOR A05-159 and AFNOR A05-160, currently known as the Strauss, Huey and Streicher tests [54-57]. These methods however are destructive, difficult to perform on site and require sampling that can be harmful to the integrity of materials during service. For this reason, the electrochemical, non-destructive tests commonly known as EPR (electrochemical potentiokinetic reactivation) and DL-EPR (double loop electrochemical potentiokinetic reactivation) were developed to measure the sensitivity of austenitic stainless steels to IGC [58-66]. However, EPR and DL-EPR are based on measurements of characteristic potentials and currents of passive/active zones on potentiody-namic curves in an aqueous solution (linear voltammetry curve from oxygen to hydrogen evolution in the... 

---