Testing/Materials Society Seeks IHs to Discuss Metalworking Toxin Analysis

By: Cal-OSHA Reporter - The leading occupational safety and health publication in California.

The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), which develops voluntary standards in a number of areas, is looking for industrial hygienists to participate in a task group to develop an endotoxin test in metal working fluids.The group will meet April 2 in Phoenix, Ariz., during ASTM's Committee Week. According to Jack Sloyer, the task group's chair, it will "explore the need for an automated and/or rapid onsite test to detect endotoxin in metal working fluids" (MWF). "Since e

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