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RoHS: New Testing Standards Published
Background European Directive 2011/65/EU, known as RoHS
Directive, defines limits for Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Chromium VI
and two types of flame retardants (PBB & PBDE) in electrical
and electronic equipment. For compliance testing, the standard IEC
62321 (Determination of levels of six regulated substances) is
used. Now, this standard is reworked to ensure technical progress
and to introduce new methodologies as well.
Changes The main standard IEC 62321 is now divided into several
parts. Six parts are already published as given in the table
below:
IEC Standard Determination of certain substances in
electrotechnical products
IEC 62321-1 Part 1: Introduction and overview
IEC 62321-2 Part 2: Disassembly, disjunction and mechanical
sample preparation
IEC 62321-3-1 Part 3-1: Screening - Lead, mercury, cadmium,
total chromium and total bromine using X-ray fluorescence
spectrometry
IEC 62321-3-2 Part 3-2: Screening - Total bromine in polymers
and electronics by Combustion - Ion Chromatography
IEC 62321-4 Part 4: Mercury in polymers, metals and electronics
by CV-AAS, CV-AFS, ICP-OES and ICP-MS
IEC 62321-5 Part 5: Cadmium, lead and chromium in polymers and
electronics and cadmium and lead in metals by AAS, AFS, ICP-OES and
ICP-MS
Four additional standards of this set are in preparation and are
expected to be published in 2014 or 2015. Parts 6 (PBB/PBDE) is
expected to be published in February 2014, part 7-1 (Chromium VI in
metals) is expected to be published in April 2014, part 7-2
(Chromium VI in plastics) is expected for November 2014 and part 8
(phthalates) is expected for March 2015. All standards are in
preparation.
IEC website
http://www.iec.ch/dyn/www/f?p=103:22:0::::FSP_ORG_ID:1314
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Rights Reserved. August 2013, Bulletin 13B-138
The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) announced
the publishing of new revised testing standards (IEC 62321). This
standard is used for testing of RoHS compliance and is now divided
into several parts.
