EN 50414:2006

Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Methods of analysis
  3.1 General
  3.2 Method A
      3.2.1 Principle
      3.2.2 Reagents
      3.2.3 Apparatus
      3.2.4 Sampling
      3.2.5 Test procedure
      3.2.6 Determination
      3.2.7 Tests results
      3.2.8 Test report
  3.3 Method B
      3.3.1 Principle
      3.3.2 Reagents
      3.3.3 Apparatus
      3.3.4 Procedure
      3.3.5 Determination
      3.3.6 Test report

This European Standard describes two methods for the analysis of lead in PVC-insulating and sheathing materials for electric and for optical fibre cables. The samples of PVC are taken from the finished cable. Method A provides a quantitative method and Method B provides a qualitative method. NOTE 1 Users may refer to either Method A or Method B or to both methods. NOTE 2 Other methods of determination not specified here are known to be capable of achieving equivalent results, but do not conform to this EN (see “Introduction”). Both Method A and Method B are applicable to products having a total lead content greater than or equal to 0,01 %.