Twelve years of fireworks market surveillance in France

Abstract : In the view of market surveillance, more than 4400 fireworks have been taken on the spot by sworn people or bought on the market in France since 1999 for inspection purposes. This paper presents the market surveillance sampling evolution during twelve years, carried out by the PYRO unit of the Accidental Risks Division of INERIS as testing body ; the related measures implemented : additional audits in importer plants, interlaboratory tests for guarantying the reliability of the results, EN17025 accreditation of the testing laboratory ; the typology of detected defects ; the results in terms of defects evolution trends versus time.