With regard to Bob and Ed's recent messages: > Here's a search point for Material Safety Data Sheets; if it's a > chemical and you ship it, you have to have an MSDS: > > http://www.msdssearch.com/ > > > Group, > > > > Is anyone aware of safety/environmental restrictions on the use > > of an electrolytic capacitor fluid, referenced to me verbally > > as 'R4N+' ? > > Our major customer wrote to us a fortnight ago, "requesting" an MSDS for one small part of the equipment we sell and reminding us that we had a legal responsibility to supply one. The critical point is if the material from which the part is made is "hazardous" - and what isn't now days?
>From searching the Web, I discovered that there wasn't a European MSDS for the finished material easily available, but I did learn that there is a States side standard (ANSI 16, I think) for MSDSs and a European standard (Directive 91/155/EEC from 1991) - similar, but not quite the same. If anyone else has problems with this bit of legislation, drop me a line and I'll give you the web sites that were helpful. Regards, Mark PS I got the European style MSDS by contacting our supplier of the finished item, who got in touch with the UK distributor of the tube from which it's made, who Faxed the material manufacturer in Germany who had an MSDS already on record. When we eventually got it, it had been Faxed so many times it had to be retyped, but at least we got it in the end. -- Mark Hone Wellman CJB Limited Email: [email protected] Airport Service Road Tel: +44 (0)2392 629239 (Direct) Portsmouth, Hampshire Tel: +44 (0)2392 664911 PO3 5PG, ENGLAND Fax: +44 (0)2392 697864 ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: [email protected] Michael Garretson: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected]
