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India consults on eight standards for plastics and resins
The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) is reinvestigating the use of eight chemical standards in plastics, resins, moulding, and extrusion materials.
The standards cover:
|
Substance |
Comment Deadline |
|
4-nonylphenol |
May 11 |
|
4-octylphenol (4-tert-octylphenol) |
May 11 |
|
hexamethyldisilazane |
May 18 |
|
polyolefin elastomer (POE) |
May 18 |
|
ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA) |
May 18 (part 1), May 8 (part 2) |
|
poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) |
May 18 (part 1), May 8 (part 2) |
The standards outline all the procedures, sampling methods, and tests that companies must employ while working with these compounds.
The BIS also proposed changing some of the requirements, sample techniques, and testing in the following standards:
- polycarbonate moulding and extrusion materials(comment deadline: 21 May)
- the 2018 positive list of colourants in FCMs (comment deadline: 19 June)
- polyalkylene terephthalate (PET and PBT), their copolymers and list of constituents in raw materials and end products in FCMs (comment deadline: 20 May); and
- styrene (vinyl benzene) (comment deadline: 17 June).
We acknowledge that the above information has been compiled from Plastics, Resins, New Sampling Methods, New Procedures, New Tests, Chemical Compounds, BIS.
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