Product Characterisation

 

Objectives

Screen available data on CRM parameters (e.g. CRM content, speciation, product residence times) for products and components to identify factors affecting CRM parameters and describe CRM trends and scenarios in future products and components.

Develop a procedure to select relevant products and component CRM and secondary raw materials data to include in the database.

Identify existing sampling, sample preparation and chemical analysis methods for a set of "particularly interesting" products and components with respect to CRM content, and validate them, including data reliability assessment through statistical analysis.

Provide harmonised quality assessment protocols to determine CRM parameters in products.