Consumer groups across the world restate their commitment to work on standards for consumer goods and services
Read More Consumers International reconfirms commitment to product standardsStandards play an important role in ensuring the potential of nanotechnology is realised safely.
Read More Nanotechnology – consumers and standardsOctober 1939 – June 2012. Deni will be remembered as a forceful advocate for both sustainability and ethical conduct on a global stage.
Read More Vale Deni Greene – consumer representativeA successful workshop was recently held for the CFA Representatives on Standards Australia Technical Committees.
Read More CFA Standards Representatives Networking WorkshopIt was recently reported that almost one in four children are in the wrong car seat – despite changes to road rules.
Read More Child restraints: Revisions in the standardThe COPOLCO Mirror Committee takes Australian positions to the International Organisation for Standardisation’s consumer policy committee.
Read More Consumer participation in standards making – COPOLCOElectronic health records involve the systematic electronic collection of health information previously held on paper about individual patients or populations, such as information about the physical or and mental health of an individual or provision of health services.
Read More Standards update: Electronic health data
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The Standards Australia Technical Committee CS-037 Garden Soils and Potting Mixes has been working over the past few years revising the standard recently published in its 4th edition as AS 4454-2012 Composts, soil conditioners and mulches.
Read More Ensuring the safety of composts, soil conditioners and mulches Standards Aust logo
The joint Australian and New Zealand Technical Committee EL-002 Safety of household electrical appliances is working on improving the safety aspects in the revision of the AS/NZS 60335 series of standards.
Read More Progress on safety of electrical appliances
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Bioenergy efficiently extracts clean, low-emission electricity from a range of wastes. CFA has appointed a consumer representative to the SA technical committee on Sustainability Criteria for bioenergy.
Read More Developing a sustainability standard for bioenergy
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Consumer Affairs Victoria reminded Victorian parents and carers of the dangers that toys containing magnets can pose if swallowed following the recent death of a Queensland toddler.
Read More Warning on magnets in toys
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Mandatory safety standards are made for products that are likely to be especially hazardous. In making mandatory safety standards, the government protects consumers by specifying minimum requirements that products must meet before they are supplied
Read More Mandatory standards: protecting consumers