The purpose of this work was to establish a harmonized test method protocol to ensure that the same results would be achieved regardless of the testing facility.
It has been designed as a harmonized cycle for the certification of light duty vehicles around the world and, together with the new harmonized test procedures (WLTP), will serve to check the compliance of vehicle pollutant emissions with respect to the applicable emissions limits and to establish the reference vehicle fuel consumption and CO2 performance.
Gartiser et al. [28, 29] investigated the suitability of harmonized test methods to describe ecotoxic effects of eluates from construction products.
The results of the corpus harmonization process was that 1,185 annotations were added to the original 24, 671 test set annotations (4.08%) while 505 (2.05%) where removed, obtaining the final harmonized test set of 25,351 annotations.
The agreement will enhance international cooperation and coordination in the validation of alternative test methods, the execution of independent peer-review meetings and reports, and the development of harmonized test method recommendations for regulatory consideration.
Medical devices, drugs, food and cars would go through "harmonized" safety testing that would apply everywhere within the trading bloc, for example, instead of having to do duplicate testing or meet different requirements in different countries.
The standardized test conditions of the harmonized leaching tests are, therefore, not to be considered a simulation of reality, but as a helpful convention that allows further modeling of the data.
Assessment of susceptibility to NA inhibitors is hampered by several factors: insufficient knowledge of molecular markers of resistance, lack of harmonized approaches for testing and data analysis and, most critically, lack of established laboratory correlates of clinically relevant resistance.
This consortium effort provided a series of harmonized protocols and tested models for the nanotoxicological field to use.
