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Product category: Compliance Engineering
News Release from: SGS
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 22 January 2007

Consumer bodies take up RoHS baton

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The presence of hazardous substances in E and E products is becoming more and more of an issue.

The presence of hazardous substances in E and E products is becoming more and more of an issue Products that used to be tested for function, cost/performance ratio and safety norms are now also tested for harmful chemical substances

This is the result of more severe legislation that requires products to be free of substances such as heavy metals, flame retardants (PBB/PBDE), plasticisers or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).