ISO 13741-2:1998 Plastics/rubber - Polymer dispersions and rubber latices (natural and synthetic) - Determination of residual monomers and other organic components by capillary-column gas chromatography - Part 2: Headspace method

The requirements imposed today by authorities include the assessment of the content of residual monomers and organic saturated volatiles, for health and environmental reasons sometimes down to minute traces. Former standards for measurement of residual volatiles based on distillation linked with titration cannot cope with such exigences.
This part of ISO 13741 presents an advanced method for the determination by gas chromatography, of residual monomers and other organic components in polymer dispersions and latices. This standard provides a method that is in line with present-day requirements for analytical methods and is intended for use instead of ISO 2008:1987, Rubber latex, styrene-butadiene — Determination of volatile unsaturates and ISO 3899:1988, Rubber — Nitrile latex — Determination of residual acrylonitrile content, where precise measurements of volatile-matter content are needed, and expands their scope to include other volatile organic components.