Most of the equipment being used as protection against airborne particles and small droplets are covered by specific EU harmonised legislation. The vast majority of these products are classified as Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and fall under the scope of Regulation (EU) 2016/425. These products are intended to protect the wearer. Products that are intended … Read more
The safety of battery operated devices is attracting increasingly stringent scrutiny and it has been determined that, as from 1 May 2012, all lithium-ion batteries must be tested and certified to the standard IEC 62133. The exceptions are for information technology equipment (standard IEC 60950-1 applies) and audio/video devices where IEC 60065 applies. This includes … Read more
It is obvious that test laboratories are getting totally bogged down with the testing to EN ISO 60601-1 3rd edition. We recently got a message from Intertek that they could not take on any more EN ISO 60601-1 3rd edition testing as the risk management phase was taking too long and they did not have … Read more
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