Citation

Herpol C, Vandevelde P. Fire Safety J. 1981; 4(4): 271-280.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1981, Elsevier Publishing)

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Abstract

The enormous, world wide research activity in the field of combustion toxicology has given rise to an impressive amount of toxicity data.The first part of this paper discusses the problems which arise when such results are used to rank materials in an order of the relative toxicity of their combustion products or in attempting to relate them to toxicological hazard evaluation.In the second part, after introducing the notion of fire scenarios and describing two such possible situations, existing test methods are compared in relation to their relevance to the scenario parameters. It is shown that none of the evaluated methods completely fulfills the considered conditions.It is concluded by the authors that agreement on thoroughly described scenarios is necessary for further trials towards international harmonisation and development of test methods.