Richard Woods wrote > A Notified Body for EMC has told us that we must keep the test sample > for 10 years. Since there is nothing in the Directive that requires > samples to be kept, we find this request to be unacceptable. We have a > TCF and understand that it must be kept for 10 years after production > ceases. Has anyone else encountered this type of requirement by a > Notified Body? > I agree with you Richard, I haven't read anywhere that you legally must keep your sample for 10 years. I suppose though if at some point if things have gone badly and someone questioned your results, it might help your in your defense of due diligence if you could produce the item tested and could show that it didn't differ from your production. Really though, for most of us to keep a sample or samples as the case may be, of everything we ever tested would call for some pretty big warehouses. Perhaps you should get them to quote you exactly what document and clause that they have extracted this requirement from, maybe then will have a reply more to your liking.
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