Standards Organisations

AFNOR - Association Frangaise de Normalisation Tour Europe 

Minitel 3616 CATAFNOR - search order AFNOR catalogue items 

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Harmonised standards are technical specifications adopted by one of the European standards organisations following a mandate issued by the European Commission on which Member States were consulted. When published by the Commission in the Official Journal of the European Communities, the hamionised standards give presumption of confomiity to the essential requirements they specify. This means that manufacturers applying these standards do not have to demonstrate the compliance of the manufactured products with the relevant requirements of the directive. 

Database construction has now become sufficiently widespread that the ASTM (the American Society for Testing and Materials... a standards organisation) has issued a manual on the building of databases (ASTM 1993) it incorporates advice on computer practice. 

There are three standards controlling surface finish in common use. They are issued by the Steel Structures Painting Council (USA), the Swedish Standards Organisation and the British Standards Institution. They are roughly equivalent. 

Euronorm 169 Continuously Organic Coated Steel Flat Products, (1985) (Available from national standards organisations)... 

Standards may be developed at global level through the International Standards Organisation (ISO) or the equivalent International Electrotechnical Commission (lEC) for electrical equipment. These contain representatives from standards bodies... 

Figure9.4 The main headings of ISO 13485 (Headings produced with permission of International Standards Organisation).

APME TNO INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS ORGANISATION FRIENDS OF THE EARTH... 

STUTTGART,UNIVERSITY EWVK INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS ORGANISATION ASSOCIACAO BRASILEIRA DE NORMAS TECNICAS... 

International Standardization Organisation, Saffron (Crocus sativus L.), ISO 3632-1, Part 1, Specification, Geneva, 1993. 

Wouters, J. and Verhecken, A., The scale insect dyes species recognition by HPLC and diode-array analysis of the dyestuffs, Ann. Soc. Entom. France, 25, 393, 1989. International Standardization Organisation. ISO 3632-1 Specification Saffron (Crocus sativus L.), Part 1, Geneva, 1993. 

In Europe, the German standards organisation has published a set of guide rules and symbols for flow-sheet presentation, DIN 28004 (1988). This is available in an English translation from the British Standards Institution. 

International Standards Organisation (1997) ISO 5667-13 1997, Water quality - Sampling -Part 13 Guidance on sampling of sludges from sewage and water-treatment works. ISO,... 

Ostman, B., "Ignitability as Proposed by the International Standards Organisation Compared with Some European Fire Tests for Building Panels", Fire and Materials, Vol. 5, no. 

International Standards Organisation. International Standard ISO 9001, Quality Systems -Model for Quality Assurance in Design, Development, Production, Installation and Servicing. Geneva, Switzerland International Standards Organisation, 1994. 

Standards is a general term covering the documents published by a standards making body, such as the International Standards Organisation (ISO). The word specification is reserved for those standards which specify minimum requirements for materials or products. Other types of standard include Methods of Test, Glossaries of Terms, Guides and Codes of Practice. It follows that a specification may refer to several methods of test and that a commercially written specification can refer to nationally or internationally standardised test methods. 

Before going into the details of the ENPs, this is important to define the use of this term in the context of this article. The International Standard Organisation (ISO/TC 146/SC 2/WG1 N 320) defines these as a particle with a nominal diameter smaller than about 100 nm. The ENP is a widely accepted term to represent those nanoparticles originating from various manufacturing or engineering processes. This is used to make these nanoparticles distinct from those originating from fossil fuel combustion sources such as vehicles or industries [4],... 

ISO = International Standard Organisation NB = National Board of Pressure Vessel Inspectors... 

Among the two genotoxicity tests, the Mutatox is a commercial test using a bacterial strain and is no more difficult to perform than the well known Microtox test. The test on induction of micronuclei in erythrocytes of Xenopus laevis larvae developed by van Hummelen et al. (1989) requires specialized skills and training and is routinely performed only in a few laboratories. However, this test is currently being standardized by ISO (International Standardization Organisation). 

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