Within the quality assurance programme for air quality monitoring in Europe the JRC European Reference Laboratory for Air Pollution (ERLAP) organises Inter-Laboratory Comparison Exercises (ILC) for EU national air quality reference laboratories. An ILC for the determination of PM (particulate ma...
The Carcinogens and Mutagens Directive (Directive 2004/37/EC), hereinafter the CMD, protects workers from exposure to carcinogens or mutagens at work. The aim of this study is to support the European Commission’s Impact Assessment of a potential Occupational Exposure Limit Value (OELV) for inorg...
The European Union Reference Laboratory for Heavy Metals in Feed and Food (EURL-HM) organised a proficiency test (EURL-HM-22) for the determination of the mass fraction of total As, Cd, Pb, Hg, methyl Hg (MeHg) and inorganic As (iAs) in fish to support the Commission Regulation (EC) 1881/2006 se...
The European Union Reference Laboratory for Heavy Metals in Feed and Food (EURL-HM) organised a proficiency test (EURL-HM-23) for the determination of total As, Cd, Pb, Hg, and inorganic As (iAs) mass fractions in palm kernel expeller to support Directive 2002/32/EC on undesirable substances in ...
The Institute for Reference Materials and Measurands (IRMM) of the Joint Research Centre (JRC), a Directorate-General of the European Commission, operates the European Union-Reference Laboratory for Heavy Metals in Feed and Food (EU-RL-HM). Two of its core tasks are to provide advice to the Dire...
In this brochure some selected NMP projects that have been supported under FP6 (2003-2006) in the field of materials science and technology (Materials S&T) for ICT devices....
The present report summarises the work carried out within the feasibility study devoted to the development of particulate matter certified reference materials (PM10 CRM) at the RM Unit of IRMM. At present there is no suitable PM10 RM certified for elements and/or PAHs. Therefore, this project wa...
The effect of boron and the need to control its location and chemical state have been known since the 1940s. Early attempts to commercially produce heat treatable steels resulted in variable properties due to difficulties in ensuring that boron was present in the desired form, i.e. as soluble bo...
