UN Manual of Tests and Criteria Rev.8 (2023)

ID 21160 | 16.01.2024

Published: January 2024 (PDF available 16.01.2024)

At its tenth session (11 December 2020), the Committee adopted a set of amendments to the seventh revised edition of the Manual, which were circulated as document ST/SG/AC.10/48/Add.2 and published as ST/SG/AC.10/11/Rev.7/Amend.1. At its eleventh session (9 December 2022), the Committee adopted a new set of amendments to the seventh revised edition of the Manual, which were circulated as document ST/SG/AC.10/50/Add.2.

This eighth revised edition takes account of these two sets of amendments.

The new amendments adopted in 2022 include:

- The addition of organic peroxides and polymerizing substances to the list of substances which should not be tested in the self-heating test, to avoid false positives;
- A recommendation to use close-cup tests over open-cup tests for determining flash points;
- New provisions for the testing of sodium-ion batteries;
- Amendments to the classification of desensitized explosives according to the Globally Harmonized System;
- Other clarifications and corrections.
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	Descrizione	Livello	Dimensione	Downloads
	UN Manual of Tests and Criteria Rev.8 2023.pdf	Abbonati Merci Pericolose	10785 kB	72
	ST SG AC.10 48 Add.2.pdf	Abbonati Merci Pericolose	166 kB	16
	Rev.7 Amend.1 Corr.1.pdf	Abbonati Merci Pericolose	23 kB	15
	ST SG AC.10 50 Add.2.pdf	Abbonati Merci Pericolose	183 kB	14