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Has UL Committed ‘Scientific Misconduct’?
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John Drengenberg
UL Consumer Affairs Manager
“... when the smoke hits
that alarm it will sound.”
Underwriters Laboratories 
“. . .when the smoke hits that (UL listed) alarm it will sound.”
The World Fire Safety Foundation 
“Not according to recent, independent, scientific and fire fighter testing conducted in the USA, Australia and New Zealand.
Has UL committed Scientific Misconduct?”
Adrian Butler
WFSF Chairman, Co-Founder Has UL committed Scientific Misconduct?
John Drengenberg in WTHR’s ‘Deadly Delay’, UL investigation, April 2007
“UL has set the Entire Foundation for Product-Safety Certification.”

Debra Rade, former UL Chief Legal Officer and Senior Vice President of Administrative Operations as quoted in

The Washington Post’s ‘How Safe are Products Bearing the UL Mark?’, December, 1999

Dr B Don Russell
Texas A & M University
"Their science isn't any good, frankly.
 As a scientist, practicing science that
 doesn't replicate what the world really
 is, in terms of physics, is worthless."
Dr B Don Russell
Investigative journalist, Bob Segall asks why ionization
smoke alarms ‘certified’ by UL do not go off in a room full of smoke
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UL-Approved Smoke Alarms May Give False Sense of Security
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“Underwriters Laboratories is, so to speak,.
 “in bed” with the smoke alarm manufacturers.”

Richard Taylor, Senior Partner, Taylor Martino, Mobile Alabama

from, ‘The Defect in Smoke Alarms’ Report, August, 2009

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Hosford vs BRK Brands, Inc; Underwriters Laboratories, Inc; et al
Hosford vs BRK Brands Inc,; Underwriters Laboratories Inc; et al, page 13, clause 47
(scroll down page for complete law suit documentation)

  1. a.By modifying the smoldering fire test in UL Standard 217 to eliminate materials that
    presented foreseeable challenges to ionization smoke alarms.  . . .

c. By failing to formulate and implement safety standards for ionization smoke alarms that
    require ionization smoke alarms to detect slow smoldering fires in a timely manner . . .”

“Defendant UL was negligent or wanton
  in one or more of the following respects:”

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