<[email protected]>, [email protected] inimitably wrote: >If a manufacturer plans to certify (as required) products in many geographies, >he/she will often be confronted with some or all of the following "additional" >country requirements: > >EMC - radiated, conducted, and susceptibility (FCC, ICES, VCCI, BSMI, CE,...) >chemical identification and/or registration >environmental impact data >banned or undesirable chemicals used, e.g. many flame retardants used > in plastic materials >acoustic noise (e.g. German Workplace Law) >import license (often independent of everything else) >country approved line cords >factory inspections (e.g. UL, CSA, TUVR, CCIB,......) >unique marking requirements >unique product "health" information >unique statements in user manuals (German acoustic statement per ISO 7779 > and UK Telecommunications Act 1984) >bulk shipment labelling per customs requirements
You wouldn't be trying to over-simplify, would you? (;-) > >A book covering all of the global import and marketing requirements would sell >out the first printing at $500 a copy. Unfortunately, (1) no one person knows >all of >this information, and (2) much of the information would change by the time the >book >hit the stores. True, but the information COULD be put on a web site and updated frequently. -- Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only. Phone +44 (0)1268 747839 Fax +44 (0)1268 777124. http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Why not call a vertically- applied manulo-pedally-operated quasi-planar chernozem-penetrating and excavating implement a SPADE? ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: [email protected] Dave Heald [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.rcic.com/ click on "Virtual Conference Hall,"
