meeting WG41 Delft

   WG41 of CEN is having today its second day of meetings to try to deliver a new standard on Instrumental Odour Monitoring Systems (IOMS). The meeting is taking place in Delft and a few representatives from Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, France and Spain are at this moment discussing the final details to deliver the draft of this standard, hopefully by 2020.

   Technical groups 1/2, 3 and 5 are proposing new drafts that will be discussed during this meeting. This is the last meeting of 2019 that has been quite intensive in terms of work and number of meetings. 5 meetings took place in Antwerp, Milan, Bilbao, Barcelona and Delft only in this year.

WG41meeting barcelona   WG41 is having an intensive year 2019 as more meetings than usual are happening this year. Last one took place in Barcelona, Spain only two months after the WG41 meeting in Bilbao, Spain. 12 experts from Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Spain sat to discuss issues related to the use of Instrumental Odour Monitoring Systems (IOMS).

   Some very important issues were discussed during the meeting. One of them related to the Quality Assurance Levels (QAL) of the IOMS, to be precise with the QAL1. It seems that there will not be a specific group dealing with a procedure to demonstrate that the IOMS is suitable for the intended purpose before installation.

wg41 meeting bilbao 2019 2The 13th meeting of the Working Group (WG) 41 of the Technical Committee (TC) 264 on air quality of the European Standard Committee (CEN) dealing with Instrumental Odour Monitoring Systems (IOMS) coded as CEN/TC 264/WG 41, took place in Bilbao, Spain the 3rd and 4th of July. A total of 16 experts met to discuss the new standard on IOMSs, previously known as e-noses.

A new Task Group 5 (TG5) was created in the previous meeting in Milan in order to deal with the implications of the standards on Automatic Measuring Systems (AMS) EN 141881 and EN 15267, on IOMSs. Among the many issues addressed in this meeting in Bilbao, a new proposal to bring a Quality Assurance Level (QAL) 1 was discussed.

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