Organic standards setting

Balancing the local and the global in organic standards-setting... 

In response to its request for comments on the draft international harmonization policy on standards, the FDA received comments from 10 organizations (standards-setting organizations, trade and professional associations, a manufacturer, and a consumer organization). A discussion of the comments received and the Agency s responses follows ... 

This same organization may insist on fall proteetion at five feet instead of the six feet rule as outlined in the eonstruetion standard 29 CLR 1926.503, and so on. The point is simple. If you follow OSHA you have set minimum requirements for your operation. This is okay for some situations, but progressive organizations will set higher standards to make sure that all employees are proteeted to a greater extent. It is your deeision, and a refleetion of your eompany s safety program. 

G.24 The concentration of toxic chemicals in the environment is often measured in parts per million (ppm) or even parts per billion (ppb). A solution in which the concentration of the solute is. 1 ppb by mass has. 3 g of the solute for every billion grams (1000 t) of the solution. The World Health Organization has set the acceptable standard for lead in drinking water at... 

Emissions from hazardous waste combustors are regulated under two statutory authorities RCRA and the CAA. The MACT standards set emission limitations for dioxins, furans, metals, particulate matter, total chlorine, hydrocarbons/carbon monoxide, and destruction and removal efficiency (DRE) for organics. Once a facility has demonstrated compliance with the MACT standards by conducting its comprehensive performance test (CPT) and submitting its notification of compliance (NOC), it is no longer subject to the RCRA emission requirements with a few exceptions. RCRA-permitted facilities, however, must continue to comply with their permitted emissions requirements until they obtain modifications to remove any duplicative emissions conditions from their RCRA... 

Standards Engineering, 15 769 Standard-setting organizations, 9 227 Standard specific gravity (SSG) procedure, 18 293... 

The TLEV, LEV, and ULEV standards incorporate the concept of reactivity-weighted mass emissions of VOC, concurrent with increasingly strict NOx control. The intent is to regulate based on equal ozone-forming potentials of the VOC emissions rather than simply on their total mass. That is, the emission standards for organics are set in terms of the amount of ozone formed in the atmosphere per mile traveled by a given vehicle/fuel combination rather than in terms of the simple total mass of VOC emitted per mile. 

Specificity and selectivity are often used interchangeably. A detailed discussion of these terms, as defined by some standard-setting organizations, has been recently reported (12). 

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