The both ISO deal with the safety management for consumer products. This "International Standards will promote the trade in consumer goods, promote consumer confidence and competitiveness, and at the same time protect consumers against adverse risks to their health and safety."

The normation is only for suppliers. But it brings nothing new for an analytical chemist. In the examination of healthy products or pharmaceutics the chemist has to work according the GLP guideline. For the examination of food or drinking water the chemist has to be akkredited and validated by an official authority. In this way the work of an analytical chemist leads automatically to a safety product, when it is examined.

Thank you for your kind contribution. Speciation analysis might give more information instead of total element determination in risk assessments. Are there any difficulties’ selecting these parameters in GLP guideline and ISO standards?