British Standards Institution

Source:: CEN
Committee:: B/515 - Wood preservation
Categories:: Information management | Standardization. General rules
Comment period start date:: 09/07/2025
Comment period end date:: 23/08/2025

Comment by:

23rd Aug

Scope

This document specifies a method for how to prepare specimens of wood and wood-based materials before leaching tests that are written by other committees than CEN/TC 38 "Biological durability of wood and wood-based products".

Purpose

CEN/TC 38 has leaching standards for estimating environmental emissions. These standards describe the preparation of wood-based specimens that are specific and perfectly suited to anisotropic materials. Other Technical Committees such as CEN/TC 351 also have leaching standards for the same purpose.

The proposed new standard aims to describe precisely how to prepare specimens of wood and wood-based materials before leaching tests, in the event that other leaching standards other than those of CEN/TC 38 are used.

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Standard timeline

1. Proposal

Proposal start date:

09/07/2025

Proposal end date:

23/08/2025

2. Draft

3. Public Comments

4. Comment Resolution

5. Approval

6. Publication

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Adoption of a New Work Item - Biological durability of wood and wood-based products - Preparation of wood and wood-based material specimens before leaching testing

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