The method which we follow, in its effect disenfranchises half the population entitled to representation in Parliament, and, without any doubt whatever, it is this great defect in our political system, which throws all our constitutional machinery out of gear.

Whereas all the necessary methods of analysis should be laid down as quickly as possible ; whereas two steps towards the attainment of this objective having already been taken through the definition of certain methods in Commission Directives 80/1335/EEC (3) and 82/434/EEC (4), the third step is to consist in the definition of methods for the determination of dichloromethane and 1,1,1-trichloroethane, the identification and determination of quinolin-8-ol and bis(8-hydroxyquinolinium) sulphate, the determination of ammonia, the identification and determination of nitromethane, the identification and determination of mercaptoacetic acid i ...[+++]n hair-waving, hair-straightening and depilatory products, the identification and determination of hexachlorophene (INN), the tion of tosylchloramide sodium (INN), the determination of total fluorine in dental creams, the identification and determination of organomercury compounds, the determination of alkali and alkaline earth sulphides;

This method describes the identification and determination of mercaptoacetic acid in hair-waving, hair-straightening and depilatory products in which other reducing agents may be present.