Bob sees uses in the areas of damp masonry, skin testing, permeability of food packaging, porosity of paper etc. Ray Williams distributed handouts on new CEN product standards. When the CEN standards are in place, the British Standards will normally run in parallel for 6 months before being withdrawn. The scheme is expected to become part of building regulations. The science behind the model primarily concerned thermal conductivity, specific heat and freezing points.
Dissemination is now underway including a web-based package.
The chairman also updated the delegates on the status of the current EU Physical properties of food database project . 1500 datasets have been collected and has been graded on the quality of material description and measured data. The implementation of the sludges and slurries standard is planned be undertaken using a needle probe technique. The meeting concentrated on disseminating the results of phase 1 of the round robin on spectral reflectance. Two samples had been distributed as undisclosed materials to prevent participants being influenced by a priori knowledge.