Plastics chemistry, house organs

A number of house organs are concerned with the working and fabrication of materials into consumer products. Particularly outstanding among this type are those in the field of plastics chemistry, such as the Durez Molder Plaskon Magazine and Resinous Reporter. 

Many standard analytical methods have been published as papers in analytical journals and other scientific Uterature, and in textbook form. Collections by trades associations representing, for example, the cosmetics, food, iron and steel, pharmaceutical, polymer plastics and paint, and water industries are available. Standards organizations and statutory authorities, instrument manufacturers applications notes, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the US Environmental Protection Agency are also valuable sources of standard methods. Often, laboratories will develop their own in-house methods or adapt existing ones for specific purposes. Method development forms a significant part of the work of most analytical laboratories, and method validation and periodic revalidation is a necessity. 

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